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I've decided to construct a terrarium for my fiance's birthday as she has been asking why she can't have frogs (her passion) when I have so many snakes (my passion). I've kept amphibians (salamanders mostly, but some GTFs) before and have researched many frog species options to bring to her. She says she wants small and colorful. I brought up dart frogs and she was so so on it. The culturing fruitflies worried her I think. Not a big deal to me; rodents are a challenge in my opinion.
I've looked around and she has been difficult to appease. She says we'll decide when we go to Daytona. Well, that can change how the terrarium needs to be set up and I want that mostly set up by the time we leave. So I was hoping to get some input on frog species that were small and colorful. I suggested amazon milks or white's but she felt they got too big (~4 inches). So I need some options since many classifieds just show froglets or subadults with little listed on their max size and terrarium requiremnts.
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"Bones heal, chicks dig scars. Pain is temporary, glory is forever."
-Evil Knevel

I'd definitely recommend Red Eyed Tree Frogs.
They're small, and very colourful.

Photo links below.

G

http://www.kodetortoise.com/frogs/first_day/
http://www.kodetortoise.com/frogs/second_day/

RETF photo shoot ;o)

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Do your frogs ever go INTO the waterfall? Like in the little area the the frog is facing in the picture? I had that problem with my whites. What kind of plant is that?

Thanks!
Nicole

You mean the little hubbyhole half way down where the fogger goes?
No, to the best of my knowledge they haven't tried going in there.
It was one of the things I was quite worried about. I considered putting a soft mesh over the entrance to stop them, but they've shown no interest.
The fact that the Fogger is in there is kind of a blessing and a pain - It means that there's a handle in there, the temperature sensor, so that the frog couldn't really drown.
At the same time though it means that if a frog put it's hand on the plate while the fogger was on, it would get burnt.
The fogger isn't on very often though, and as I said, they've shown no interest that I've seen in going in there.
(Bear in mind that they're nocturnal, so I only see them for a few hours before I go to bed, and if I get up at night).

The three plants in there are:
A Peace lilly, a relatively small one that's flourishing, and drinking a lot of water.
A large ficus moclame, which the frogs always sleep on, without fail. They're about the same size at the leaves, and mostly if I want to find them during the day I just look for the sagging leaves. Otherwise they'll be deeper into the moclame, in a little nest of leaves.
The third one is a small ficus benjamina, which is growing right next to the Moclame. I expect that they're foliage will become quite entangled, which is what I hoped for.

Hope this helps.

G

Oh - and a better photo of the plants: