1. What species ? How long have you had the frog(s) and where did you acquire them ? Were they WC (wild collected) or CB (captive bred)?
Dendrobates tinctorius 'Azureus'
She is 3 years old
I got her as a juvenile from joshes frogs
2. What are your temperatures (day and night - highs and lows) and how do you measure those temperatures? Does the vivarium have any supplemental heating, and if so, what type?
The vivarium gets misted twice a day with distilled water. The light stays on from 8-8 the temps tires range from 70-80 70 at night, when it hot in my room I have seen the temp rise to 78, but mainly it stays around 75 during the day. The humidity is always at 99% I use a reptibreez product to measure temperature and humidity.
3. What lighting is on the enclosure (brand, type, wattage) and does the lighting add heat to the vivarium? I’m not sure the light but it’s the lighting recommended by joshes frogs for dart frogs.
4. What is the Humidity like (percentage or guesstimate)? What type of water are you using? What is your misting procedure (automated or hand mister, how long and how often)? I do both hand misting and automated misting. They get a 10 second automatic mist twice a day of distilled water. And and I manually pray the leaves to help heavy debree wash away when I feed them three times a week.
5. Describe your tank/enclosure and its lid or top, and give details about the ventilation (how many vents, where are they positioned, how large are they).
Exo terra with glass lid.
6. What kind of food are you providing, how much and are you dusting it? What superfine powdered supplements (brand and exact product name) are you using and are they fresh (i.e. how long has the container been open, and how is it stored)?
I feed them fruit flies, in the cage there is also isopods and springtails. I once tried baby crickets but they did not enjoy them. I occasionally feed them the larvae of the fruit flies. I dust the fruit flies each time I feed them with dendrocare.
7. Any other animals in the enclosure currently or recently? Tankmates / other frogs ?
Just another Dendrobates tinctorius 'Azureus'
8. Any type of behavior you would consider 'odd' ?
No they are both acting normal and eating normally.
9. Have you handled or touched the frogs recently ? Any cleansers, paint, perfumes, bug sprays etc near the tank ?
I never touch them them the only change was I added plants from a local nursery but I followed the dendroboard description of how to disinfect plants. I have used this method before and had no adverse reactions.
10. Take pictures of EVERYTHING -- the frogs, the enclosure, the vents. Take numerous pics of everything - that will be of great help
The weirdest thing I do is duct tape the vents however I have been doing this for a year now and nothing strange has happened. I do this because the flies kept getting out even after putting netting in the vents. Every other day when they’re fed I open the cage doors and let fresh air in. There is still small amounts of air exchange but I read the vents are more for the plants and that it’s not super important for the dart frogs that use little oxygen so that’s why I started taping the vents.
