HELP! Bringing home darts....

[MichaelS]

100% humidity with a top that is closed to ventilation most of the time can cause stagnant air near the floor. It discourages growth of most plants. I usually do my tanks with high humidity and a couple muffin fans blowing in and out.

I'd hesitate to guess they are cross breeds. Not many people cross dart frogs. Their are lots of types of tinctorious and lots of variation within those types of tinctorious. My guess is if you google Dendrobates tinctorious and look at pictures you will find some that look a lot like what you have.

[JimO]

I'd hesitate to guess they are cross breeds. Not many people cross dart frogs. Their are lots of types of tinctorious and lots of variation within those types of tinctorious. My guess is if you google Dendrobates tinctorious and look at pictures you will find some that look a lot like what you have.

I hate to disagree, but I've seen many cases where people have kept different morphs of a species or different species together and unintentionally created hydbrids. Some people deliberately create hybrids and at least one "morph" of tinctorius was found to be a hybrid of Powder Blue and Azureus tinctorius that had been created by a Dutch breeder who offered it as a new morph.

This is a photo of one of my Dendrobates auratus adults (Costa Rican Green and Black morph). This is a typical pattern for various auratus morphs and the frogs in question have similar body patterns. However, the leg patterns aren't right for an auratus.



If it's a pure auratus, it should be strongly marked on the belly, like this.



Here is a link to a site with morph guides for both D. tinctorius and D. auratus. Most of the known morphs in the pet trade are shown.

http://www.tropical-experience.nl/