The nice thing with dart frogs is that you never have to clean up your
vivarium if it's heavily planted. The only cleaning in my tanks that I
do is cleaning the front glass. Once in a while I will prune some
plants and remove dead leaves. Even that I do once every two months or
so. I use RO water for misting, it leaves no waterspots and dries
perfectly clean on the glass. Frogs don't really crap that much,
imagine piece of crap the size of a single mouse pellet every two days
or so... It's great fertilizer and decomposes in no time. Thumbnail
frogs tend to crap a bit more often, but their crap is way smaller too.


If you want to see few pics of my vivarium go he
http://www.orchidboard.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=37

There is a lot of froggers at OrchidBoard.com. Seems that keeping
frogs and keeping orchids goes hand in hand.

Marty
www.OrchidBoard.com




Lady Blacksword wrote:
Thanks Rob.
I was considering starting on amphibians with a cheap little pair of
Firebelly Toads, then moving up to Mantellas if I can keep that alive,
followed by darts, which I like the best. I hadn't delved far enough yet to
find reference to the cleaning problem.
Murri
"Rob" wrote in message
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Ford,
What kind of frogs? I'm considering Mantellas or Darts in the next couple
of years.
Murri


Darts are much easier to clean up after than Mantellas. At least that is
what I read. Mantellas are cool, but you spend a lot of time cleaning the
enclosure. You would almost never need to clean a dart frog enclosure,
assuming it is planted.

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