A dart frog keeper can usually tell the humidity is wrong before the hygrometer does. The glass stays clear when it should fog at the corners, the leaf litter curls at the edges by mid-afternoon, and the frogs sit lower in the tank than they did last week. By the time the gauge reads 60 percent, the…
The message in the forum thread was familiar: the false bottom looked bone dry, the soil above it was soup, and the keeper had added more granules to fix it. Granules had not caused the problem, but placing them in the wrong layer had made it worse. Polymer humidity granules are a buffer, not a drai…
A dart frog vivarium is assembled downward before it is assembled upward: drainage, barrier, water reserve, growing medium, leaf litter, animals. Skip a step and no misting schedule rescues the tank. Polymer granules belong in that stack at one specific height, below the root zone and above the drai…
