YOU Choose My Vivarium!!

[Wallace Grover]

Ok, I did this once before and got a kinda bad turn out, but hopefully this will go better. I am currently building an arboreal vivarium with a GS background, and 1/2" pvc+flevopol branches/vines that go horizontally (but not straight, I bent them with a blowtorch) across the viv. Should be a pretty sweet setup.

Now onto the part I hope you answer to (please do!!), here are the rules for suggesting an animal. They're pretty much common sense cept for #3

1. Has to be appropriate for a vertical 20H jungle vivarium
2. Nothing ludicrously expensive (i.e $200+ for one specimen) or hard to care for
3. Preferrably unique and from South America (this one I dont mind if you break, but just for some guidance if you're totally confused on what Im looking for)

Oh, and I almost forgot: no Dart Frogs

Teehee, I will post build pics to show you all this weekend just in case this thread dies!!

[Okapi]

Why dont you want darts?

Hourglass Treefrogs (Hyla ebraccata) look cool IMO. Ron at Alpha Pro Breeders has them. They are small like darts though, and eat fruit flies.
Hourglass Treefrogs (Hyla ebraccata) - Alpha Pro Breeders

[Mitch]

I'd vote on hourglass tree frogs too.

[Colleen53]

Hourglass frogs have a loud call at night when breeding time comes around Dart frogs go to bed when I do and that's why they are so loving!!!

[Wallace Grover]

I'm going to get darts (thumbs) for one of the vivs, don't worry, but I also have two other 20H verts I'm building alongside the dart viv. I think it would be kind of cool to have three side by side South American verts all displaying a different herp...

Now I have to choose something for the last of the three vivs, I already have ranitomeya planned and your suggestions of hourglass tree frogs (same as clown tree frogs, just a specific morph right?) seems really cool. I think I'll do a viv for them.

Here are some things I'm looking at for the third viv:
Red Eye Tree Frog
Amazon Milk Frog
Tiger Leg Monkey Frog
Bird Poop Frog

I would like to put whichever frog is going to use the branches I make to good effect in that viv, so I'm guessing it would be one of the "leggier" tree frogs.

[clay333]

Go for the red eyes. I have 2 friends with them and they are really neat. I like the size of them. I wouldn't suggest the milk frog. They look really good as froglets and juvies, but god they are ugly when they get older. Have u checked out leaf frogs?

[fieldnstream]

Phyllomedusa tomopterna (sometimes called super tigerleg monkey frog) would love the branches. My male does a hand over hand walk along his branches and it is so cool to watch. They are super easy to care for, have great coloration, and sleep out in the open if you have broad-leaved plants. They stay relatively small, (just a little bigger than the marmoratus) so you could have a good group in that size tank. All the species on your list would be great choices. I have a red-eye and some bird-poops, and have had milkies in the past, but my favorite is definitely the tomopterna.

[D3monic]

Dendropsophus leucophyllatus from bolivia, brazil, columbia, Ecuador ect ect.

Not my pic

[Arpeggio]

I agree with D3monic, clown tree frog's rock!

[Spaff]

I think Clown Tree Frogs and Hourglass Tree Frogs are closely related (in the same genus at one point, I think). I was going to suggest either of them. I have never owned them, but I think they are really interesting looking frogs.