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Hi Gang:

So, I've been trying to decide between the Imitators and the Vents. Folks have told me that Vents are a better choice for a first thumbnail. A few first inital questions about Vents:

1. I saw that there is a Red Vent. I saw a picture but it didn't look quite red. Is there such a color of a Vent and is there care differences between the regular vent vs. the Red vent?

2. Can I keep the Vents in a group just like the Imitators?

3. Cost. Are they pretty much the same costs? Imitators to Vents and Regular vent to Red vent?

4. Food: Will they only take the Small ff, and Springtails? Will they eat whiteflies, those small worms from flour moths?

5. Wheres a good site to look at about them?

Thanks gang!

http://www.angelfire.com/ny4/dartfrogs/redvents.html

here is a page with some good pics of red vents, you will see that they are drastically differnt in color from normal yellow vents. Last time i saw some for sale they were much more expensive that normal vents, and were in the 125-200 dollar price range. That was about a year ago however, so maybe the prices have come down some, but i still would not expect them to be at the same price as normal vents. As far as i am aware their care is very similar to that of d. imitator.

Red vents are another one of them "need to know some one frog" I also don't believe their are "red vents" any more they been split to red amazonicus and D. Dulmani (feel free to correct my spelling)

Brian Ferriera JR
Plympton, Ma

P. Terribilis (orange)
D. azureus
D. ventrimaculatus
E. hahneli
D. tinctorius (Oyapok )
D. Fantasticus
D. leucomelas

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