New inhabitants: Poison dart frogs and more

As the paludarium starts to work stable, I decided it was time to add some new inhabitants: Poison dart frogs. This is a welcome addition as it adds some more life during the daytime hours.

Which frogs to choose – Phyllobates

It was hard to make a decision. As I already have a red-eyed maki tree frog in the setup, choices we limited as the tree frog will consider a lot of the smaller poison dart frogs as food. So I ended up looking at larger species, and ended up with the black-legged poison dart frog (Phyllobates bicolor). They are in excess of 4cm in size, which should make sure they do not become a midnight snack. Here are some of the first images:

They seem happy in the new setup, always chasing fruit flies or small crickets.

More poison dart frogs – Dendrobates

As this setup is rather large, I decided I could do with a mix of species. As it is commonly not accepted to mix different species from the same family, I decided to add a Dendrobates species: The Yellow-banded poison dart frog (Dendrobates leucomelas).

Boy are these different in behavior from the Phyllobates! These guys are reckless, and will climb up, fall down, jump just anywhere without considering the consequences (or so it seems). Very lively!

Another twilight guest: Gecko!

In the shop they had left one single Common house gecko (Hemidactylus frenatus). It had lost its tail some time ago, and it is just growing back. It makes a nice addition, as the red-eyed maki frog is purely nocturnal, this little guy is active during twilight:

Inhabitants that were already there

To make the story complete, some cool images of the red-eyed tree frog (Agalychnis callidryas) that I brought over from the old setup:

And finally, some fish that also came over from the old setup. These are Cardinal tetra (Paracheirodon axelrodi):