spikey bromeliads..

[awelcome]

So I know this has been discussed plenty of times in the past, and the general consensus is that they should be fine with them, after all they likely encounter them in nature anyway.... That's not really my question.

I do have two broms in my viv that have some spikes on the edges and so far it has been no big deal, but tonight I witnessed something that has me a little concerned... or I may be anyway and wanted to know from experienced frog owners if I should be. Zeus was apparently bored and chasing tiny food up the wall tonight til he got way up in the corner. He was trying to get a tiny fungus gnat larva up there... anyway, because he had climbed the background itself there wasn't a super easy way back down, and he ended up jumping for the closest brom. I was hoping he'd land on the flat part, but he actually landed exactly on the edge of one, and then scrambled over it dragging his belly a bit on it it seemed. Do you think the spikes would have cut him? I never see his belly, so not sure how I would know.

[DigitalPunk]

I doubt it. Falling frogs is always scary, but they are tougher than given credit for. If it would of broke through the skin you would have seen blood and he most likely would have flipped out afterwards.

[awelcome]

ok, I will just keep an eye out for anything weird or blood spots on plants or whatever then. After he got on that leaf he climbed over and jumped onto my burgundy thread using it to break his fall into the creeping charlie lol... he is a plant demolisher. I am constantly having to set them back upwards.

[Evaradero]

In the wild, many dart frogs (especially thumbnails) have been known to house some of the baddest, spikey bromeliads so no worries in that case

[Happy Frog]

So I know this has been discussed plenty of times in the past, and the general consensus is that they should be fine with them, after all they likely encounter them in nature anyway.... That's not really my question.

I do have two broms in my viv that have some spikes on the edges and so far it has been no big deal, but tonight I witnessed something that has me a little concerned... or I may be anyway and wanted to know from experienced frog owners if I should be. Zeus was apparently bored and chasing tiny food up the wall tonight til he got way up in the corner. He was trying to get a tiny fungus gnat larva up there... anyway, because he had climbed the background itself there wasn't a super easy way back down, and he ended up jumping for the closest brom. I was hoping he'd land on the flat part, but he actually landed exactly on the edge of one, and then scrambled over it dragging his belly a bit on it it seemed. Do you think the spikes would have cut him? I never see his belly, so not sure how I would know.

I keep a lot of Cryptanthus in my dart frog enclosures and they have never hurt any of my frogs, and Cryptanthus are pretty spikey.

My frogs jump on them, sit and stare on them, and one of my female Leucs likes to sleep in one of my larger Cryptos. You'll find a lot of the Neoregalias have small spines on the edge of their leaves.