what the hell r u talking about? did you not see the list of animals kept in that tank? it's rediculus. and this is why i posted this, so that i could tell people like you that this kind of set up doesn't work. while at first glance it may look like a little piece of nature, look a little closer, do you see the water pumps, the florescent lighting, the filters, the heaters... while people may claim it's exactly like nature, it's not. what about the parasites, hte preditors, natural selection. i dobt theres any of those things.

next time do a little reserch before you say something like this is effecient and "cool". reserch dart frogs, all the species mentioned in the article, and you 'll see that they all have different care requirements, as well as locations in the wild. COMMUNITY TANKS ARE NEVER GOOD IEDEAS, and no matter how much people get told, they keep wanting to think otherwise.

take a look at the animals in the vivarium, do they live in the same geographic location? nope. do they eat the same food? nope. do they occupy the same niche? yes- bad for a community tank. could they eat eachother? yes. are they given enough space?nope. dart frogs need AT LEAST 10 gallons per two frogs, and those little chams need at least 10 per. neither dart frogs or chameleons are good swimmers, so any one of them could drown in that pool. chams eat crix, crix can kill thumbnail poison frogs.

i want you to reserch all the species you think can go together (excluding fish) and tell me why you think so. and you will see that community tanks are 99% of the time, a bad idea. and the animals are the ones who suffer.

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