10 Gal Vert vs 10 Gal Horizontal

[crashnt20]

Ok so i bought a rack to Costco, great price, and i am going to put 5 10 gal tanks on it. So the question is should i build verts or horizontals?

Would Azuraus prefer vertical or horizontal 10 gal?

How about Luecs?

And finally imitators?

Let me know your guys oppinion. Thanks.

[titan501x]

although verts are pretty awesome looking, horizontals would be the best for most dart frogs. Dart frogs are not arboreal.(i think i spelled that right )

[MonarchzMan]

Darts are not arboreal in the sense that tree frogs are arboreal. That said, they will use vertical surfaces. At least, some species will.

For the species you listed, I would say Azureus would prefer horizontal. My leucs seem to prefer staying on the ground more than anything. They will use the leaves and logs I have in the vivarium, but 90% of the time, they're on the ground. And imitators would probably do well in vertical vivs.

[spydrmn12285]

Yeah, I think a more horizontal tank should be for azureus. A 10 gallon in my opinion is way too small for a pair of azureus. You should definitely get a larger tank for them (at least a 20 gallon high). haven't any experience with leuc's or imi's so can't help you there.

Imitators will like vertical space, but also appreciate some horizontal space. If anything I would give them a heavily planted vertical for some extra surface area to jump around in.
The other two will apprectiate the horizontal space, though I've heard of Leucs that love climbing to the tops of tanks.

[slaytonp]

I would go with fewer, but larger tanks. The difference between horizontal and vertical isn't really much with our miniaturized habitats. A ten vertical is really pushing ground space with any of the dart frogs, even the imitators, that don't tend to use the bottom all that much. Which ever way a tank is oriented doesn't come close to comparing with a natural habitat of many meters up and down and cross-wise, and a ten gallon vertical is like trying to keep them in a tube.