Dendrobates Auratus question

[Kurt]

What kind if tank and tank size do you suggest then? Maybe I get that tank and cover up part of the screen if not all of it? Would that wok? And I have figured that out about the light too. thanks for your advise!

In the upper frame of my tanks I have placed either plate glass or a piece of Plexiglas with a screen window to maintain humidity. Works well. Be advised Plexiglas will bow when exposed to humity.

[xkatelynell]

In the upper frame of my tanks I have placed either plate glass or a piece of Plexiglas with a screen window to maintain humidity. Works well. Be advised Plexiglas will bow when exposed to humity.

That's what I was thinking too because my mom ordered the tank today, so if I have to make modifications I can.

When it comes to dart frogs how many plant type things do you suggest? Like a good you can't see them from all the plants or a couple of open spaces, or one side super planted one side open haha I've read they need LOTS of hiding places, but I just want to see him/her sometimes though? Hmm..

I also got this

Pet Tech Magnaturals Large Hanging Jungle

Is it something the dart will like or would it be more of a tree frog thing? I kind of just got it because I thought it was neat

Thanks for all of your help again! He's doing great for now and is getting a lot more social already! I just can't wait to get the perfect home set up for him.

[Kurt]

That plant is fake.

I love heavily planted tanks, so think with plants you can barely see the frogs. I would plant bromeliads to start off with. Darts love them and some darts use them to their lay eggs in. I like some ground cover (besides the "live" oak leaf litter) and I use an oak leaf ficus for that. It has small leaves and spreads out across the bottom and up the sides of the tank, making a green carpet. If you can get your hands on tropical moss that will work too, but in a different way. My understanding is that it comes from Hawaii and sells out very quickly at Black Jungle. I also understand that you cannot use the mosses you might find in your yard, they just don't last very long in dart tanks. In my dart tank, all kinds of ferns popped up out of no where.

[xkatelynell]

I know it's fake. I like fake plants more because I don't have to worry about bugs, mites, ect. The plan with the dart frog though is to have mostly live plants with maybe a few fake ones. My tree frogs have always had fake plants though, as well as all of my reptiles.

I know that I'll probably get my wrists slapped from everyone here, I just don't like live plants in my enclosures, I'm really bad with plants..but I know I have to deal with it for this one.

I should get my tank and plants and what not this week & I'll put pictures up for everyone's opinions.

Thanks!

[xkatelynell]

Another question:

I have 12x12x18, 18x12x20, and a 5.5 gal tanks. Which one do you think the dart frog would do better in? He's only like the size of the tip of my thumb (and I'm a tiny 5'2'' girl)

Thank you

[Kurt]

Any of those are fine for now. In the long run the 18x12x20 would be the better choice. My blue dart was in a five-gallon on until the plants out grew it. So, I made a tank that has the same length and width, but twice the height.

[xkatelynell]

Would the little guy be okay in that big of a tank I don't want him to get lost or uncomfortable. Or are frogs not like that?