New To Frogs, Lot's 'O Questions!

[Scottyhorse]

Hi there
Before you suggest getting PDFs you want to do a good amount of research for proper temperatures and humidity and are a more difficult to keep.
some dart frogs are extremely sensitive to temperatures and may die due to inappropriate conditions and may need much more than twice a day misting, a
fogger or rain system may save the troubles of misting but do as you wish.

Good plants for dart frogs and mantellas (madagascar equivalent to darts) are bromeliads,these plants provide a cup for an area for the darts to possibly reproduce.
Wandering jew a more vine like plant that will take over the terrarium and grow on a lot of things. Pothos for a large leaf plant that will grow through the terrarium
quickly, and ficus vines, java moss (plants that love the humidity).

with your choice of enclosures, keeping the humidity in Exo terra brand terrariums may be difficult since thy are built for ventilation, you can put a piece of plexiglass or
glass on the screen top of the enclosure to trap in the humidity. with your size of enclosure, the taller one may be for more of an arboreal species like Dendrobates leucomelas
and the lower one in the cube format would be for more terrestrial frogs like Dendrbates azeures (blue dart frog) keep in mind what species you want to keep because mixing
species is not always the best idea and to be safe i would not do it. if you want a "Beginner dart frog" i would look at other threads on the forum.

Darts and Mantellas will eat fruit flies that can be cultured or eat pinhead crickets, Culturing friut
flies will be much easier and there is a care guide on the forum on how to do so.

Having PDFs can and most likely will be a rewarding experience, and there are hundreds of members on the forum
including the moderators and John that know an incredible amount of keeping dart frogs. i hope you have success
with your frogs!

Thanks a lot for all this information! I will look into a misting system for sure, I think it would save me a whole lot of trouble!
I'll be doing a whole lot of research, that's for sure. I want the frogs to be happy.
I'll look into those plants, hopefully I can have good luck with terrarium plants as I do with aquarium plants.

What type of terrariums are best for the frogs? I would like to buy one that has the least amount of changing that's needed.

I really like the blue dart frog, but I think I would be happier with a frog that likes to climb. If it is recommended not to mix species, I will not do it.

I'll look into culturing fruit flies.

Thanks again!