Dart Frog Vivarium Pic.......

[Double J]

Here is a pic of one of the vivariums I recently set up. This one is actually a wedding gift for my sister-in-law. It now houses two juvenile Dendrobates azureus (blue dart frogs), that were part of the wedding gift from myself as well. These are of course, offspring from my pair, so that made things rather inexpensive from that end of the scale for me.

This is a 20 gallon tank. The bottom is gravel, with a layer of my home-made soil mix on top, with some oak leaves on top of that. For plants, they are simply cheap greenhouse plants that include calathea, fittonia, and a malaysian birds nest fern. All of the plants were around two dollars each. The background was made from expanding foam, with a layer of peat moss painstakingly siliconed to the foam. This actually helps to raise th humidity, and provides a good substrate for mosses and algae.. which looks great after a few months of growth under good lighting. There is a small slab of cork bark leaning againt the background behnd the fern. Also, I have some cork bark keeping the soil from eroding into the drainage area on the right side. This will keep the exposed gravel from getting loaded with the soil.
For lighting, I am using a flukers incandescent hood (simply for looks), with one cool white, and one daylight screw-in compact fluorescent bulbs. Altogether, these two bulbs crank out around 2200 lumens. Keep in mind, the photo was taken without the flash.

Anyway, enjoy the pic.