Starting a 72 gallon poison dart frog tank.

jojo22

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So I have decided to put some dart frogs in my 72. I am going to take my time and build the tank slowly researching every step I take. Any suggestions are more than welcome. I plan to have about 4 inches of water for a few neon tetras and the rest will be land. I also plan to use a ten gallon "sump" to house the fogger, a filter to clean the water and a pump for whatever water features I use.

So that is the plan, I hope to have ten frogs all of the same species (to prevent hybrids) and will probably sell the babies to help support my fish habit, and maybe start another frog tank.
 
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I'd suggest starting off with some D. auratus as they are fairly easy to keep and breed. Have you ever kept dart frogs before?

Read up on melanogaster and hydeii wingless fruit fly cultures. It will save you a ton of money on feeding instead of buying crickets. I can answer any questions you might have.

http://www.blackjungle.com/poisondartfrogs.html has a lot of information.
 
The D. Auratus where the ones I was looking at. From my understanding (which at this point is limited) they tend to stay low in the tank. Is this correct??? Also if I use a glass lid to keep humidity up what type of lights would I need for them to get what they need??
 
Any other suggestions on places to research??

Give me some ideas of how you would layout/set up this tank if you where doing it.
 
have you researched the effects of the frogs' slime on the fish in the water, if youre not going to change it every day?
 
Never thought of that I just planed to run a filter
 
I at least want to do a small water section even if it is just for visual effect. I want a stream to run down the back of the tank and part of the way across the tank.
 
They can swim fine. There is no slime to slough off in the water, so that's not something to worry about. I don't know why people assume that reptiles are slimy, they aren't.

The D. auratus do stay low. If you were keeping pumilios, then I'd suggest putting some bromelids, but it's really not necessary with auratus.

What's the layout of the tank?
 
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