Waterfalls

Jamie George
Last update: 17 February 2000

I have found that buying and installing a corner waterfall many frogs in the vivaria appreciate it, although every day I find my DD. leucomelas and azureus climbing up and down it for literally hours.  It seems to make a good calling spot for these poison frogs. 

For example, I have found that my adult male D. leucomelas often climbs round the back of it to where the water is pumped, in the cool shade, and calls for some thirty minutes or so.  He then moves on because my other D. leucomelas are too young to breed yet, and climbs down behind a pebble which I placed in the bottom of the waterfall.  This is where the water circulates.  He often calls from here too.

If anyone is looking to breed frogs this arrangement may help some species of  frogs by providing them with good calling spots and, of course, endless enjoyment for us!