I was doing a dart frog project over the winter... An I was extremely impressed as to how well my plants from Josh's Frog's arrived... The packaging was amazing
Normally it's really expensive to make these vivariums. Josh's Frogs was pretty generous here. I once sold one for $700 (with the frogs) at a loss lol.
OK CLINT, FINE. I ordered a large dart frog bioactive kit from Josh’s frogs with your discount code, thanks! Can’t wait to set it up! ❤️ And yes, +1 vote for the 2 vids a week crew!
@@shriihanmukherjee6502 Hahaha it’s certainly pricey. Enclosure running about $600 but i went with the biggest option because i spoil my animals too much. Thankfully the money actually came from downsizing junk i no longer needed and selling it and I’m still at a profit! 🙂 I was even able to upgrade my corn snake to bioactive so I’ll have a bioactive corn snake, leopard gecko and some dart frogs!
@@shriihanmukherjee6502 You’ll get there! At least you’re being patient instead of rushing and doing it improperly! I’m going to get two Tincs, not looking to hold them, they’ll be more show animals, but i can’t wait! I set the enclosure up this weekend and let it develop for a month or two before I order the inhabitants.
Dart frogs are actually really great climbers. Even the more “terrestrial” species have been found at like 4 meters up in the wild or something. They’ll straight up walk up your glass lol
Wow if you hadn’t become a professor you totally would’ve slayed at landscape or interior design, your enclosure are always a work of art . 🥰🏆 The powder blue dart frogs 🐸 are crazy cute too, only the best for Clint’s reptile room. Thank you ever so much for sharing and best wishes always.
This timing couldn't have been any better! I'm currently getting supplies to set up my own dart frog enclosure. Thanks for the amazing build video Clint!
The dremel DOES work well for expanding foam, but you want to do the reverse. Take out the big chunks with a knife or mini saw and then do any finer detail shaping with the dremel! Would love to see a update video after it's grown in a bit!
I have a second hand 36x18x36 terrarium that we set up as a dart frog bioactive.. I’ve always had planted tank aquariums and I’m hooked on these low maintenance bioactive terrariums now! I don’t know why we waited on getting one. Watching the plants grow and the animals in them are so peaceful and calming even more so, as no water changes!
I'd really really love to see how the builds you've done in videos have grown in, what they look like now. Could yall make a video featuring the vivaria you've built on the channel?
These vivarium builds are (arguably) my favorite videos of yours. Please keep making them! I’m getting some whites tree frogs after making a vivarium and attempting to make a built in water feature (: definitely buying everything I can for my build from Josh’s Frogs
Oh gosh!! I love this tank so much! Gonna copy the design for my next tank! I’ve been trying to figure out how to incorporate cork in a way I like and the gorilla glue was genius! Thanks!
I made a frog setup exactly like this video using a corner terrarium from pet smart that Clint showed on a different video. Everything worked great but the gap filller foam wasn’t great for holding the cork. Used straight gorilla glue for that. Thanks to Clint for giving me the knowledge and confidence to get started.
Hi there! Quick note about working with expanding foam. It can be hazardous! If you use a dremol or even just sand paper (anything that could produce dust) it is important to wear a dust mask and eye protection. The dust can be poisonous if ingested or inhaled.
That looks so real! You are incredibly talented on so many levels ♥️ thanks for all your wonderful contributions to the animal education world 🌎 🐍 🦎 🦕 🦖 ! You have changed so many lives ( human and animal) thank you so very much! My 10 year old son loves watching your videos with me, anytime he sees I’m on your channel he makes me restart the video and watch it with him lol
Oh my goodness, YES! If people’s personalities tend to deepen over time, the sheer delightfulness of Awesome Old Dude Clint will be an even greater gift to the world than current Clint! (Wait, is that even possible…?)
When the original video came out about the tincs, I spent several weeks deep diving into Josh's Frogs, lol. Between Clint, Zack over at Josh's Frogs, and Tanner on SerpaDesign, I found paladarium nirvana, lol. Bioactive substrates for the win!
I love Josh's Frogs! I have two Pacman Frogs (Ceratophrys ornata & Ceratophrys Cranwelli/Cornuta) from them, in bioactive enclosures that I built with things almost entirely from Josh's Frogs as well! I think it would be awesome if you did a video on them, especially if your partnership with Josh's Frogs continues to be fantastic. Much love Clint!
Wow, the coloration on those frogs is absolutely beautiful. I've never thought that I'd want to keep dart frogs before but wow, I might be changing my mind. Also that tank build is amazing, better than I could ever do.
Love your idea of levels with the cork bark, I may actually use that idea, thank you! Great video, very informative and some fun laughs. 🙂 Awesome build.
The deemed is a great idea! I think using the long drill bit and using the flex shaft would produce the cutting action best for carving that rigid and delicate of foam.
I have only just discovered your channel. I am new to Dart Frogs, as an experienced Lizard keeper i have always loved frogs, and kept some in the past such as Whites Tree Frogs, Grey Tree Frogs and couple of others. I was never brave enough to venture into Darts. But having seen some folks bioactive setups i thought why the heck not that's go for it! I have thus recently purchased the Exo Terra Tree Frog Terrarium 45x45x60 and set it up for some Dendrobates leucomelas. I don't collect these until the 11th December so have been so excited and watching various videos on how others are keeping them. I got to say I have come across your videos and found them amazing. The first was your trip to see all the various frogs in the wild and subscribed straight away. Your such a cool guy and found your videos so interesting. This video has made me wish however that I saw it before i set mine up as i love how you have used the foam and glue to make the background levels how you have. I'm hoping to get the Zoo Med Paludarium next and try doing a set up for Red Eyes with some shrimp or fish. You have given me some amazing ideas to try out for future terrariums so THANK YOU SO MUCH!
@@RegrettablyLongwinded what do you mean? Maybe they're made slightly different in different countries? That's the only thing I can think of, because none of mine have any type of holes that need to be covered or filled in lol. (I'm in the UK, btw)
Tip: you can shape the expanding foam while it's semi cured, as you can push it with your fingers because the surface cures first. Saves a lot of time. My latest vivarium is foamless, as I used one piece of driftwood that has heaps of branches and made my own putty made out of aquasoil mixed with Coco fibre into a sturdy clay mix and made a grow wall completely up the back around the wood branches. The live sheet moss has already attached to it and is growing on in really well in less than two weeks.
This one turned out KILLER Clint! Third times the charm. I guess it’s a saying for a reason. Not that your last two weren’t good. They were, but I really loved the idea of making the levels from the cork half rounds. Really gave the plants a place to shine, and the frogs to visit.
the build looks like it's just as much fun as introducing the frogs to their new home, and you made it look easier than i expected, so i'm hoping as a newbie a build like this won't be overly complicated for me and frustrating. I like the idea of a bioactive environment where the little critters do the cleaning for me...
This was so smart of Josh’s frogs! I’m going there right now to have a little look see. My local pet store has a 18x18x24. I think I might give this a try. I’ve always wanted a mini jungle.
I was JUST thinking about doing the foam, glue, substrate thing for my Ball Pythons terrariums (I have 4 balls). When you finished the back of the terrarium, I thought that if it was done on 3 sides it would look like it was underground, like in a termite mount. Seeing that sealed the deal, now I have to do that too!
Thanks for posting this Clint! I was hoping for a video like this to show me an example of building a dart frog enclosure start to finish. Very helpful! Once the summer ends and Im settled into my new apartment I cant wait to have my own dart frog enclosure!
Okay, I need to share this with you, Clint. I have a free-roam bunny named Judy (aka Miss Judy B Hopps - the B is short for bunny. I know. It’s great). For the past hour, she has been thumping loudly on the floor. Nothing was here to scare her or bother her, and I checked on her to make sure she was okay, and she seemed fine. So I went back to bed and ignored her, in case she was thumping to get my attention. I play your videos as I fall asleep at night a lot, because you have a smooth steady voice and there aren’t any loud sudden sounds. As soon as I started playing your videos, she stopped thumping. She thumped FOR AN HOUR just so that I would turn on your videos. I can’t believe her 😂 I don’t blame her, but oh my goodness.
so many techniques for creating a bioactive. very simple design here. cool he's got some isopod accents. lol, those frogs are eating those isopods. i hope they are prolific breeders. bio actives are like art. i like the shelves.
Clint: "they're not great at climbing and will need ramps"
Frog halfway up a wet glass wall: "Sorry, didn't hear you"
🤣🤣
yeah theyre very good climbers hahah
Lol
frogs
I love how happy Clint is buried In a pile of enclosure build materials 😂
I know I would be too.
I love how happy he always is
Followed by how serious he looks when mixing it 😂💜
I would be too
I would be jumping up and down from excitement.
Clint, you and your family are a national treasure.
Cvdd
I was doing a dart frog project over the winter... An I was extremely impressed as to how well my plants from Josh's Frog's arrived... The packaging was amazing
Normally it's really expensive to make these vivariums. Josh's Frogs was pretty generous here. I once sold one for $700 (with the frogs) at a loss lol.
Right.
Wow. That's pretty expensive. But glass isn't cheap just alone. Add everything else and I can see how it would get expensive
@@Madchris8828 i only do bioactive they can get expensive from plants , the animal you’re getting , lighting , hydrometers and thermometers and more
Yup. It costed me easily $500 to set mine up.
Bought a used exo terra ($70) materials (~$160) can sell for 400!
OK CLINT, FINE. I ordered a large dart frog bioactive kit from Josh’s frogs with your discount code, thanks! Can’t wait to set it up! ❤️
And yes, +1 vote for the 2 vids a week crew!
Are you bankrupt yet?
@@shriihanmukherjee6502 Hahaha it’s certainly pricey. Enclosure running about $600 but i went with the biggest option because i spoil my animals too much. Thankfully the money actually came from downsizing junk i no longer needed and selling it and I’m still at a profit! 🙂
I was even able to upgrade my corn snake to bioactive so I’ll have a bioactive corn snake, leopard gecko and some dart frogs!
@@physicshebang7940 That's awesome! Personally I reaaaaaly want to have my own bioactive dart frog tank, but I don't have the funds yet. One day...
@@physicshebang7940 Also, what kinda dart frogs are you getting?
@@shriihanmukherjee6502 You’ll get there! At least you’re being patient instead of rushing and doing it improperly!
I’m going to get two Tincs, not looking to hold them, they’ll be more show animals, but i can’t wait! I set the enclosure up this weekend and let it develop for a month or two before I order the inhabitants.
Dart frogs are actually really great climbers. Even the more “terrestrial” species have been found at like 4 meters up in the wild or something. They’ll straight up walk up your glass lol
I’m just listening to the guy with the PHD lol
@@indominusreags2278 😂
K but false 🥱
@@indominusreags2278 who is brand new to keeping dart frogs…
Most dart frogs are not good climbers or swimmers. A few are capable climbers. None are 'great'.
Wow if you hadn’t become a professor you totally would’ve slayed at landscape or interior design, your enclosure are always a work of art . 🥰🏆 The powder blue dart frogs 🐸 are crazy cute too, only the best for Clint’s reptile room. Thank you ever so much for sharing and best wishes always.
Looked at and researched darts all day yesterday and then you post this. Tis a sign
It started as a clear box, and finished as a subtropical rain forest. How beautiful the denizens!
the sound of the knife cutting through the foam was excruciating x)
I always thought it was just me that hated styrofoam noises.
really? i liked it.
Nothing like a cup of coffee and a rad dart frog enclosure to start the day. Thanks for the amazing tutorial!
This timing couldn't have been any better! I'm currently getting supplies to set up my own dart frog enclosure. Thanks for the amazing build video Clint!
Clint your happy energy is contagious and I love it
I must say you’ve uploaded sooner than expected
-"Claro, po!"-
Man, I really felt that. Greetings from Chile 👋🏼
Yees perfect! It's a rainy day here with our kids at home. We're all thankful for the entertainment!!
I've never skipped parts of your videos before, but the sound of cutting that foam with the knife just about killed me.
Beautiful enclosure for gorgeous dart frogs!
The dremel DOES work well for expanding foam, but you want to do the reverse. Take out the big chunks with a knife or mini saw and then do any finer detail shaping with the dremel!
Would love to see a update video after it's grown in a bit!
Also using a wire wheel bit on the dremel would make it good for making textures
lol yea. you can tell Clint hasn't delved to far into this artful skill
I like a wire brush bit on the dremel to scuff up the foam surface.
The tank looks amazing, Clint! I’m sure the mini Toxicroaks love it!
Yes
I have a second hand 36x18x36 terrarium that we set up as a dart frog bioactive.. I’ve always had planted tank aquariums and I’m hooked on these low maintenance bioactive terrariums now! I don’t know why we waited on getting one.
Watching the plants grow and the animals in them are so peaceful and calming even more so, as no water changes!
That is such a great size viv!
WHOOO!!! I HAVE BEEN REALLY EXITED FOR THIS VID SINCE YOU MENTIONED IT!
Just clint peaking out from behind all the build material happy as can be is so pure.
Clint it looks stunning you did a stellar job.
You make my day better every time, thanks and good luck
That was creative to create plant shelves out of your cork.
I'd really really love to see how the builds you've done in videos have grown in, what they look like now. Could yall make a video featuring the vivaria you've built on the channel?
this is why frogs are cool
These vivarium builds are (arguably) my favorite videos of yours. Please keep making them! I’m getting some whites tree frogs after making a vivarium and attempting to make a built in water feature (: definitely buying everything I can for my build from Josh’s Frogs
Oh gosh!! I love this tank so much! Gonna copy the design for my next tank! I’ve been trying to figure out how to incorporate cork in a way I like and the gorilla glue was genius! Thanks!
This is my second most favorite video you’ve ever made. Only second to the budgie video you just posted! Very inspiring !
Clint rocks
Josh's Frogs rocks, too. They're both freakin rad. Or stinkin rad, I mean lol
I love watching Clint make these custom backdrops. Really incredible
Pro tip: you can mix some acrylic paint into the gorilla glue to tint it. Works great if the coconut coir starts to wear off!
I made a frog setup exactly like this video using a corner terrarium from pet smart that Clint showed on a different video. Everything worked great but the gap filller foam wasn’t great for holding the cork. Used straight gorilla glue for that. Thanks to Clint for giving me the knowledge and confidence to get started.
Hi there!
Quick note about working with expanding foam. It can be hazardous! If you use a dremol or even just sand paper (anything that could produce dust) it is important to wear a dust mask and eye protection. The dust can be poisonous if ingested or inhaled.
I've dealt with Josh's, they are great. That's where I got my poison dart frogs and supplies.
I wish we had something like Josh's Frogs here in Skandinavia.
Thanks for the bioactive set up ideas with the back! Love how yours came out!
Hi Clint! I'm Chilean and I got your "Claro, Po!" Reference :P
10:52 looks so tasty to me- like a chocolate cake and meringue canyon with a river of honey running through it...
There I was feeling alone imagining, for a second, being mini and facing a mountain of sugary goodness 😂
Those frogs are beautiful.
god, i love this channel. thank you for these enclosure videos clint and team! the frogs and setup are beautiful :)
That looks so real! You are incredibly talented on so many levels ♥️ thanks for all your wonderful contributions to the animal education world 🌎 🐍 🦎 🦕 🦖 ! You have changed so many lives ( human and animal) thank you so very much! My 10 year old son loves watching your videos with me, anytime he sees I’m on your channel he makes me restart the video and watch it with him lol
Thank you for posting. You smiles and joy always is contagious. I really need it today.
GREAT JOB CLINT!!! 👏👏🐛🦖🐍🦎🐸🦊🦃🐋💯🦋🐊🐢🕷🐠🐅🦚🐳🦔🐓🦧🦜🦩❤🤙
I LOVED, LOVED, LOVED this video!
It's gorgeous, and looks kinda familiar lol :P
Great video :)
You're gonna make such a jolly and interesting old dude
Oh my goodness, YES! If people’s personalities tend to deepen over time, the sheer delightfulness of Awesome Old Dude Clint will be an even greater gift to the world than current Clint! (Wait, is that even possible…?)
Me when I see Clint's new video: I'll do the same
Me 5 seconds later: I have no money 🙃😭
❤️
When the original video came out about the tincs, I spent several weeks deep diving into Josh's Frogs, lol.
Between Clint, Zack over at Josh's Frogs, and Tanner on SerpaDesign, I found paladarium nirvana, lol.
Bioactive substrates for the win!
I've been looking forward to this video ever since you mentioned it in the frog video! What a wonderful Wednesday!
I love Josh's Frogs! I have two Pacman Frogs (Ceratophrys ornata & Ceratophrys Cranwelli/Cornuta) from them, in bioactive enclosures that I built with things almost entirely from Josh's Frogs as well! I think it would be awesome if you did a video on them, especially if your partnership with Josh's Frogs continues to be fantastic. Much love Clint!
That is some great stuff that you're using to build the background!!
Wow, the coloration on those frogs is absolutely beautiful. I've never thought that I'd want to keep dart frogs before but wow, I might be changing my mind. Also that tank build is amazing, better than I could ever do.
Awesomely done, CONGRATULATIONS!
Yes! Keep doing two videos a week! I’ll be watching both all summer! Also! Do a video on fire belly toads!! Please!!! Ur the best:)
Thats very slick! Btw, thanks Clint for all your work. You have inspired me to get a pair of captive bred Ackie monitors in August :)
I think it’s paradise for the froggies!
your videos are so amazing, I am big fannnnnnnn
I have had 3 blue tincs for two years. Watched several of these videos at the time and built a kick ass viv, still going strong.
Love your idea of levels with the cork bark, I may actually use that idea, thank you! Great video, very informative and some fun laughs. 🙂 Awesome build.
i love that he is so consistant with his uploads
Every time Clint says Joshe’s Frogs you have to take a drink 😂🤣😂
Of lemonade!
The deemed is a great idea! I think using the long drill bit and using the flex shaft would produce the cutting action best for carving that rigid and delicate of foam.
*dremel
The background shelf idea is so awesome! It's something I've been planning to do to give my mourning geckos some space from the frogs
You should make an update video once all the plants have grown up! Super cool!
I have only just discovered your channel. I am new to Dart Frogs, as an experienced Lizard keeper i have always loved frogs, and kept some in the past such as Whites Tree Frogs, Grey Tree Frogs and couple of others. I was never brave enough to venture into Darts. But having seen some folks bioactive setups i thought why the heck not that's go for it! I have thus recently purchased the Exo Terra Tree Frog Terrarium 45x45x60 and set it up for some Dendrobates leucomelas. I don't collect these until the 11th December so have been so excited and watching various videos on how others are keeping them.
I got to say I have come across your videos and found them amazing. The first was your trip to see all the various frogs in the wild and subscribed straight away. Your such a cool guy and found your videos so interesting. This video has made me wish however that I saw it before i set mine up as i love how you have used the foam and glue to make the background levels how you have. I'm hoping to get the Zoo Med Paludarium next and try doing a set up for Red Eyes with some shrimp or fish. You have given me some amazing ideas to try out for future terrariums so THANK YOU SO MUCH!
This sure is one pretty awesome Clint video
I love this leveled idea! I've always wanted dart frogs so I'll be adding this idea to my "one day" list when I have room for them finally. Thanks!
Thumbs up for the camera person and the macro shots! :D
You make working with expanding foam look pleasant 😅
Words are not necessary WOW!!!
Coupon still works! Just saved 30 dollars, thanks Clint!
Man, I don't know why Exo Terra makes those Super Escape Portals right in the lid of their tanks.
I dont know what people mean by that I haven't got that in any of mine
@@Rapid_gherkinz me neither.
I wish they'd at least include plugs for them. I have bits of paper towel stuffed in mine.
@@RegrettablyLongwinded what do you mean? Maybe they're made slightly different in different countries? That's the only thing I can think of, because none of mine have any type of holes that need to be covered or filled in lol. (I'm in the UK, btw)
I think they are to put thermometer, hygrometer or misting system wires through
Half my reptile guys I follow got hooked up from exo terra and the other half got Josh’s frogs lmao I love it!
Fantastic frog home.
Tip: you can shape the expanding foam while it's semi cured, as you can push it with your fingers because the surface cures first. Saves a lot of time. My latest vivarium is foamless, as I used one piece of driftwood that has heaps of branches and made my own putty made out of aquasoil mixed with Coco fibre into a sturdy clay mix and made a grow wall completely up the back around the wood branches. The live sheet moss has already attached to it and is growing on in really well in less than two weeks.
this was so fun to watch! I love that you tried a couple setups before you decided on one. so thoughtful~
That’s absolutely amazing! Well done!
Hello I love your videos I got morning geckos because you made a vid on them, I think you should put morning geckos in the viv
One word: Insane
This is indeed glorious
This one turned out KILLER Clint! Third times the charm. I guess it’s a saying for a reason. Not that your last two weren’t good. They were, but I really loved the idea of making the levels from the cork half rounds. Really gave the plants a place to shine, and the frogs to visit.
I'm chilean and I can confirm the 'po'!!! Haha I jumped when you said that, so amazing that you'd know something so specific
I'm not at the end yet, but, I feel much more confident making a happy and healthy environment.
Thanks.
the build looks like it's just as much fun as introducing the frogs to their new home, and you made it look easier than i expected, so i'm hoping as a newbie a build like this won't be overly complicated for me and frustrating. I like the idea of a bioactive environment where the little critters do the cleaning for me...
This was so smart of Josh’s frogs! I’m going there right now to have a little look see. My local pet store has a 18x18x24. I think I might give this a try. I’ve always wanted a mini jungle.
not sure how many times ive watched this video, but im pretty sure im going to buy this kit.....looks so cool!!!
I was JUST thinking about doing the foam, glue, substrate thing for my Ball Pythons terrariums (I have 4 balls). When you finished the back of the terrarium, I thought that if it was done on 3 sides it would look like it was underground, like in a termite mount. Seeing that sealed the deal, now I have to do that too!
You need to do Brazilian rainbow boas!
I'm not into snakes, but those guys are amazing. They are just way too beautiful to be real.
I agree Eric! BRB are not only beautiful my baby boy is calm and a great eater.
Clint, build an enclosure for BRB’s, PLEASE!
Thanks for posting this Clint! I was hoping for a video like this to show me an example of building a dart frog enclosure start to finish. Very helpful! Once the summer ends and Im settled into my new apartment I cant wait to have my own dart frog enclosure!
This is beautiful!!!
I almost wish I was one of your dart frogs. That look super homey for a frog!
Looks awesome
Really super cool project! Wish I had room for one of these because I would do it in a heartbeat. LOVE the frogs!!😍
Okay, I need to share this with you, Clint. I have a free-roam bunny named Judy (aka Miss Judy B Hopps - the B is short for bunny. I know. It’s great). For the past hour, she has been thumping loudly on the floor. Nothing was here to scare her or bother her, and I checked on her to make sure she was okay, and she seemed fine. So I went back to bed and ignored her, in case she was thumping to get my attention. I play your videos as I fall asleep at night a lot, because you have a smooth steady voice and there aren’t any loud sudden sounds. As soon as I started playing your videos, she stopped thumping. She thumped FOR AN HOUR just so that I would turn on your videos. I can’t believe her 😂 I don’t blame her, but oh my goodness.
so many techniques for creating a bioactive. very simple design here. cool he's got some isopod accents. lol, those frogs are eating those isopods. i hope they are prolific breeders. bio actives are like art. i like the shelves.
Wow that is amazeballs..and the male got right to it!
Awesome! 17:36
I am so excited for this 😍