Around 10 or 11pm my dart frogs head for bed. Unfortunately they don’t have enough beds. Or maybe the other beds are either out of reach or not clean enough. I’m not sure. While some of the guys get their own bed, others needs to bunk up with each other for the night. I’d like to try and make it easier for them, but I’m still not sure how they choose one leaf over another. Since they are all still juveniles, I don’t think they are hiding any little tadpoles from me or something like that.

The bromeliad plants seem to be the only place they want to sleep. Once in a while one will sleep on his own near the top of the tank or under a rotting leaf at the bottom. But general if I do a count in the middle of the night, it’s in the bromeliad. One of the lucky ones sleeps on the highest bromeliad on his own. While trying to take a picture with my new macro lens, I found this is the most humid of all places in the tank. Lucky guy.

Today I decided perhaps it’s a cleaning issue. So I went out and got a mister to try and clean the tank a little. I have never misted the tank, since I thought the waterfall gave enough humidity on it’s own. But I see now that it’s necessary to help the breakdown of waste.

As I work on building the breeding tanks, I’m starting to wonder where I’ll put the lights. My fear with placing it inside the tank is that it would be hot enough to keep the place warm, but also end up burning off all the humidity. Now I’m beginning to think with a waterfall and only a small vent at the bottom of the tank, there is not way you can remove the humidity. So the next task is getting an enclosed circulation system going.