Whatever your drift wood, the root structures are best to use, if you can identify them, which obviously you can. If it's any kind of hard wood, or swamp cypress type, you are perfectly safe with it. Other conifers like pines and firs may be disappointing, because they may deteriorate rapidly, and the branches may still contain some turpenoids, although as well-washed drift wood, I doubt this would be a major problem for keeping dart frogs. Don't sanitize them too much, because you don't want to destroy all of the microorganisms and tiny insects they may add to a tank, as well as moss spores and and mushroom surprises. There aren't a lot of dart frog pathogens that you could possibly introduce by simply adding your drift wood from a temperate zone creek. They aren't going to pick up any new parasites or pathogenic bacteria from this. Go for it, and send us some photos.
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Patty
Pahsimeroi, Idaho

D. auratus blue, auratus Ancon Hill, galactonotus orange, galactonotus yellow, fantasticus, reticulatus, imitator, castaneoticus, azureus, pumilio Bastimentos. P. lugubris, vittatus, terribilis mint green, terribilis orange.

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