What are the bare necessities for getting started?

[fvenegas]

Hi All, I am a complete newbie to this style of pet-keeping. I have experience with fish and planted tanks. I want to stretch my skills into another arena. My question to you all is, what are the bare necessities for getting started, specifically getting started building a frog vivarium. Like I said, I am a complete newbie so be as simple as possible with me, I won't take offense to it.

I recall when I began aquarium keeping and the mistakes I made. Mistakes are unavoidable, I get that, but if I can minimize as many as possible as well as be informed on the subject matter... that'd be nice.

And yes, I've read the e-How's and the Yahoo answers but there is nothing like a good forum to get clear answers to one's question.

Thank you all very much for your help.

[Mentat]

Hello and welcome to FF. The bare necessities would be the enclosure, lights, pump if required for water movement, a humidifier if required, substrate, decor, materials to build false bottoms & backgrounds, plants and frogs. Recommend reading this to get an idea of which way you want to go: Frog Forum - Building Dart Frog Terrariums / Tropical Terrarium Construction and http://www.frogforum.net/vivarium-te...aludarium.html. Lot more examples at the Vivarium section .

[fvenegas]

Thank you for the response and information, Carlos. Much appreciated. I'll give that a read now and begin to get myself familiar with as much as I can.

Again, thank you.

[DartEd]

First to identify bare necessities you need to identify what species you'd like to keep. Then you can get a more detailed answer. Darts, tree frogs , pacman etc...