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i would like to see what most of yours look like. =]

Here's a couple of my "girls" battling, and one of a Mom with her newly morphed froglet. This youngster got so much attention and eggs from both Mom and "auntie" it came out almost adult size. We named it "Baby Huey," although it turned out to be a female. Photos never to justice to their iridescent colors.

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Patty
Pahsimeroi, Idaho

4 D. auratus blue
6 D. galactonotus pumpkin orange splash back
7 D. imitator
6 D. leucomelas
6 D. pumilio Bastimentos
4 D. fantasticus
6 P. terribilis mint and organe
4 D. reticulatus
4 D. castaneoticus
2 D. azureus
4 P vittatus
2 P. lugubris

ooh i love how they look. And in real life they are irridesecent? im excited! i ordered a macodes petola because it looked nice and i was stunned at the irredescence the leaves had. None of the pictures i have seen of it showed how beutifull the leaves were. If you dont have one you should! haha. but im also sad to say that one of the leaves has a hole in the middle and the edges are frayed brown. Another leaf has a brown tint to it and the others are fine. DO you think this is some kind of parasite problem?

I can't even grow a "jewel orchid" in my vivariums successfully. I have however seen the Macodes petola a very, very long time ago in the orchid gardens near San Francisco, and specifically remember it. The leaves outshine the blossoms of this lovely orchid. Let me know if you have any success with it, and where you acquired it. I do have a Miltonia hybrid still alive in one of the imitator tanks, but after the first bloom several years ago, it simply just hangs on. I can't provide it with enough light without overheating the tank for the frogs.

If you have holes in the leaves, I would suggest that you look for slugs and pick them off when you find them. Very early morning is a good time to find them at work. Slugs can be a real pain in the butt, and there isn't much you can do about them after the tank is established except hand pick. (Baiting them with stale beer is fun, because they get drunk and drown, but you have to devise a way to keep the beer away from the frogs, as well, and over-all it is more fun than effective in getting rid of them entirely.) The browning of the leaves may simply be normal aging, but I'm decidedly NOT and orchid expert. I tend to just clip off any questionably diseased or dying leaves when I notice them. Or when things look soggy and rotty, raise the plants in question more above the substrate. Orchids in particular, need sharp drainage, as many of them are epiphytic and won't tolerate standing water for long.

You appear to be inventive and having a lot of fun with this. Keep sharing, please.

ARE WE AlONE OUT HERE?
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Patty
Pahsimeroi, Idaho

4 D. auratus blue
6 D. galactonotus pumpkin orange splash back
7 D. imitator
6 D. leucomelas
6 D. pumilio Bastimentos
4 D. fantasticus
6 P. terribilis mint and organe
4 D. reticulatus
4 D. castaneoticus
2 D. azureus
4 P vittatus
2 P. lugubris

hopefully i will have better luck with it.Its one of my new favorite plants! and yes i think we are alone out here. When this forum gets stale i usually just hop onto dendroboard,ive seen some of your posts so i know you have an account their too. its a great site. Yea but anyway i ordered some more plants off of black jungle and they should arrive soon. AFter i plant them ill post pics. im really liking how it turned out so far. After i post pics you should give me some input on my viv. Maybe suggestions on where i should some plants or where they would do best.

Keep sticking around here, Johnny. It's the first place that most newcomers contact, although without anyone to talk to but me and one or two others, they don't last long, discover Dendroboard and when they get their PhD's in bioscience, and have a lot of patience for nit picking, find frognet. I don't want the Kingsnake dart forum to die. It was once extremely active, but rather too much argumentative-- people got rude, especially to newcomers with redundant questions, and when some censorship was imposed, started their own forums and deserted to form other forums. I still think with a few more people with more expertise than I have, this forum could be more active again. It has a lot going for it, including the ease of the photo gallery, for uploading and posting photos. I sometimes feel very alone here, but I am not above getting into my own opinionated trouble elsewhere. I sometimes tend to offend without meaning to do so. One cannot always tell it like it is without stabbing someone else's ego.
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Patty
Pahsimeroi, Idaho

4 D. auratus blue
6 D. galactonotus pumpkin orange splash back
7 D. imitator
6 D. leucomelas
6 D. pumilio Bastimentos
4 D. fantasticus
6 P. terribilis mint and organe
4 D. reticulatus
4 D. castaneoticus
2 D. azureus
4 P vittatus
2 P. lugubris

Slaytnop showed me Dendro. I'm usually on Kingsnake, though I rarely see posts here.

I love visiting this forum as well, but for some reason, every time I have checked it until today, there has been no new posts as of December 30th. Then all of a sudden today, all the posts since "magically" appeared. Really bizarre! Anyway, long live Kingsnake's Dart Frog forums!!!

I don't know what causes these little glitches. Sometimes, after I've taken some time with a long post, it just gets dumped when I press "submit." I can never preview a post first without losing it, as when posting pictures or attempting to double check on a link to make sure it works. I've had the problem that you note, too, but not for as long. I've always just attributed it to my old dial up connection failing, but even with a new DSL, it still happens.
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Patty
Pahsimeroi, Idaho

4 D. auratus blue
6 D. galactonotus pumpkin orange splash back
7 D. imitator
6 D. leucomelas
6 D. pumilio Bastimentos
4 D. fantasticus
6 P. terribilis mint and organe
4 D. reticulatus
4 D. castaneoticus
2 D. azureus
4 P vittatus
2 P. lugubris

D. imitator D. imitator tank.