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To extend this a little, I think we should include non Dendrobates/ mantellas/ atelopus in this topic....
Definitely, from many claims, many darts are pretty much fine at night at 60 degrees. In fact, many highlanders like tricolors need cool temps.
There is no more threat of overheating from bulbs, ballasts, etc., and you can grow as many kinds of plants you like, and keep the humidity high without compensating good air circulation.
The problem is still keeping things considerably cool. Not every climate would be suitable, but in general, I think some good shade cloth and evaporative cooling units would do great (many greenhouses use swamp coolers anyway)...unless you live in a hot/ humid climate like Kansas.
Many hard to breed anurans would readily cycle from natural temperature photoperiod, and lunar cues.
Greenhouses could potentially save (excluding heating/ cooling/ ventilation) a large scale breeder or keeper lots of money that would of been spent on tons of tanks, stands, lighting fixtures, etc. But of course, it wouldn't pay off for the smaller scale folks.
I am a huge exotic plant person, particularly carnivorous plants and orchids.
If I could find a way to keep the water cool in the summer, a greenhouse pond would be an ideal place for Xenopus, other pipids, and large, ranids or leptodactylids that are rather impractical indoors.
Definitely, from many claims, many darts are pretty much fine at night at 60 degrees. In fact, many highlanders like tricolors need cool temps.
There is no more threat of overheating from bulbs, ballasts, etc., and you can grow as many kinds of plants you like, and keep the humidity high without compensating good air circulation.
The problem is still keeping things considerably cool. Not every climate would be suitable, but in general, I think some good shade cloth and evaporative cooling units would do great (many greenhouses use swamp coolers anyway)...unless you live in a hot/ humid climate like Kansas.
Many hard to breed anurans would readily cycle from natural temperature photoperiod, and lunar cues.
Greenhouses could potentially save (excluding heating/ cooling/ ventilation) a large scale breeder or keeper lots of money that would of been spent on tons of tanks, stands, lighting fixtures, etc. But of course, it wouldn't pay off for the smaller scale folks.
I am a huge exotic plant person, particularly carnivorous plants and orchids.
If I could find a way to keep the water cool in the summer, a greenhouse pond would be an ideal place for Xenopus, other pipids, and large, ranids or leptodactylids that are rather impractical indoors.