While visiting the Azureus breeder Dendrolaval, I noticed that most of his vivs had natural compressed cork panels as background. They were of course covered with ficus and moss, as they were a few years old. Olivier told me he preferred using cork to any other medium as it was excellent for humidity. He admitted that it took a while before it looked pretty, but by the look of his enclosures, it was worth the wait.

As anyone tried or is using cork panels in their dart frogs vivariums? I will be investing in a 50 gallon tank next week, and I think this one will be corked... Simply to try something different than clay and foam/silicone.

Eric