Poison Dart Frog, The Best Pet Amphibian?
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- Poison dart frogs are stinking rad, and the dyeing poison dart frog (Dendrobates tinctorius) is one of the the largest, easiest to keep, most widely available, and beautiful of them all. They are available in a wide range of color and pattern localities from Josh's Frogs. Tincs are amazing! But are they a good pet? Is the dyeing poison dart frog the best pet amphibian for you?
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When I was in fourth grade, my teacher gave us sheets of paper with frogs and told us to color it in. I used blue because I had seen the poison dart frog. My teacher told me there was no such thing as blue frogs.
Lol gotta love it. She's just didn't know, but it's still funny.
That’s pretty messed up
Well bless her heart...😝.most my science teachers were guys ✌👍🖐🐸
I love dumb teachers
had the same issue but with ladybug pictures...colored black and red spots, orange, yeallows...my teacher scholed me badly.. :/
I know it wasn't mentioned in the video, but I still want to shout out the team at Tesoros de Colombia for their efforts to curb the exportation and poaching of wild dart frogs for the pet trade by pioneering some of the earliest captive bred dart frog operations! I always want to show my thanks!
Very cool
yeah they are great!
my day is always made better when I get to hear about the 5 categories of "Handleability, Care, Hardiness, Availability, and Upfront Costs"
For me it begins at "Oh hi there!" 😁
I cannot explain why, but it’s the way he says “upfront costs” that gets me every time
@@sourcererseven3858 It starts with that and continues with Clint’s infectious love and enthusiasm for the animals he talks about,
"These guys aren't very good climbers."
Snap cut to these guys climbing wet glass at a 90 degree angle.
Maybe he was comparing their ability to climb to himself.
Lol they are poor climbers compared to tree frogs, they are excellent climbers compared to most other frogs... Their genus name "Dendrobates" basically translates to "one that walks on trees"
@@therealjoshsilva I don't really know anything about frogs, I just thought it was a funny moment in the video lol.
@@KuyaB69 He was saying they need more land area, for that reason, so a horizontal tank might be great if that's what someone has.
I met Josh(Josh's Frogs) at Tinley and he seemed surprised that I asked for a photo with him. The man and his company has done so much for these frogs in captivity and the amount of good they do for conservation it was an honor to shake his hand.
Annoys me hes in the US only, would kill for some of the things theyre selling
Enjoyed reading this.
Thank you so much for the kind words!
@@JoshsFrogs You guys need to open branches around the world to help stop the exportation of wild frogs
@@joseonwalking8666 It's definitely something we hope to accomplish in the future!
I used to have one when I was a teenager. I rescued it from a pet store - it had an injured leg and they were going to kill it so I told them I would take it off their hands. I nursed it back to health and it did great.
Very cool
I avoid rescuing from stores. Because you still give them the money for the animal. Then they'l just buy more to abuse. Dont buy the animal to rescue it. No sale money means they wont profit therefore not worth stocking and selling. Yeah it sucks that a few animals will die if not rescued. But rather a few martyrs then many many more abused animals.
@@MalonzeProductionsGaming I didn’t pay them for the animal. They gave it to me for free because they were going to euthanize it otherwise
@@bubbajenkins123 fair enough
@@MalonzeProductionsGaming, not all pet stores are awful. All of my animals are super healthy and were when I got them and thrive. I have never seen anything to make me worried or feel the animals are in danger. I am grateful for the services and items they provide.
I wish more TH-camrs would get sponsored by frog shops, it's a nice change of pace from Raid Shadow Legends
I don't think they sponsor his channel. I they have just given him things, he likes them and their products so he shares the info. He's a nice guy that wants us to get the right stuff and be happy too.
This week on Clint's Reptiles: an 11 minute Josh's frogs commercial 😂😂😂
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Tbh it was a lot better than hearing about the patreon for 5 mins which is pretty much unrelated to the topic. At least here he never goes off track and just goes like "if you want this go check this store its the best" lul.
...and a nod to Snake Discovery.
Well hi there! If you're in Utah, I hope to see you today at the Wasatch Reptile Expo!
I would truly appreciate a fruit fly culture video please!
I would want to be there but i am in Australia
What that's really close to my house but I cant go I just bought a new pc
W video
More frog videos please! Please do a video on fire belly toads
I already culture my own flies but I think that is certainly a good idea for a future video, especially since you have already shown many animals that can feed on them.
Why did I get the feeling that Clint found out the hard way about flighted fruit flies? As they say "Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana."
Oh man i sure hope these fellas don't start falling from the sky out of nowhere
meanwhile in Florida 2011
The climbing frog was so cute!
They're such cuties!
@@ClintsReptiles they really are and I didn't know I needed this video but I do. Okay, I probably actually need a higher dose of my antidepressants but I won't see my psychiatrist until next week so in the meantime this is a decent substitute
@Maze Monkie challenge accepted...
@Maze Monkie no but seriously, if the use of medicines is tmi I honestly don't know what to say, I'm sorry but I really don't see it
Gorgeous frogs! We have been considering getting some of the "patricia" Dendrobates Tinctorius. We love our Azureus.
Those are very beautiful indeed
I love mine, too!!
Cheyenne never asked to be brought into this conversation 😂
lmfao
hahaha
Providing the temperatures in Celsius is appreciated! Providing them in Kelvin is just funny :D Keep it up Clint.
Well, frogs do survive freezing pretty well, but I'm not sure about liquid hydrogen temperatures.
I genuinely had no idea about flightless fruit flies so the majority of the video I was trying to figure out how one would transfer flying bugs that are virtually impossible to see into a glass box lol
Great video! Can you please make a video all about fruit flies. I'm so terrible at working with fruitflies...they got everywhere...so I can't get a dart frog yet.
Easy fix, every time you open a container, chill it in the fridge for a few minutes first, it will slow them right down so you can transfer them. Don't leave them in the fridge though, that will kill them.
@@Violet-Lily Wow!! I totally hope I remember this tip, if I or my daughter get frogs! Thank you!
This is the first foreign reptile or amphibian I learned about. I remember I was around 5-7 found a encyclopedia of animals and plants of the world and would spend hours reading about them all xD
When I was around 9 my grandma bought me an animal book and my favorite were the sunbeam snakes :)
@@xaviervalentine2815 that's so cool😀 the feeling of discovery is timeless
I would personally love it if you did videos on creating different colonies of feeders like fruit flies, dubia roaches, and meal/super worms.
6:48 : I can't comment on the way this was done in South America, but in Mesoamerica, or at least in Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, feather gathering for use in luxury art, regalia, warsuits/shields, banners, etc (There are also some gorgeous surviving examples of "paintings" featuring catholic religious motifs made entirely from hundreds of thousands of feathers by Aztec artisans during the early colonial period) wouldn't have been unfortunate for the birds, at least some of the time: A major source of feathers were royal aviaries next to Moctezuma II's palace, where attendants who cared for the birds would collect the feathers as they fell off, or in a sustainable manner which was non fatal to the birds, as described thusly by the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo:
"I am forced to abstain from enumerating every kind of bird that was there and its peculiarity, for there was everything from the Royal Eagle and other smaller eagles, and many other birds of great size, down to tiny birds of many-coloured plumage, also the birds from which they take the rich plumage which they use in their green feather work. The birds which have these feathers are about the size of the magpies in Spain, they are called in this country Quezales, and there are other birds which have feathers of five colours-green, red, white, yellow and blue; I don’t remember what they are called; then there were parrots of many different colours, and there are so many of them that I forget their names, not to mention the beautifully marked ducks and other larger ones like them. From all these birds they plucked the feathers when the time was right to do so, and the feathers grew again. All the birds that I have spoken about breed in these houses, and in the setting season certain Indian men and women who look after the birds, place the eggs under them and clean the nests and feed them, so that each kind of bird has its proper food. In this house that I have spoken of there is a great tank of freshwater and in it there are other sorts of birds with long stilted legs, with body, wings and tail all red; I don’t know their names, but in the Island of Cuba they are called Ypiris, and there are others something like them, and there are also in that tank many other kinds of birds which always live in the water."
Unfortunately, the Aviary, alongside the Royal Zoo (which even had a bison! Macaws were also traded by Mesoamericans all the way up in Arizona, New Mexico, etc), Aquarium, and Botanical gardens were all burned when the city was sieged by Conquistadors and armies from other local city-states. There's a few papers and studies you can look up on remains excavated from the area which have found that the animals were pretty well cared for, I recall a paper noting how some of the animal remains showed broken bones that were treated by people, for example, indicating they even received medical care; though that's not as surprising as it may seem given how developed Aztec medical and botanical science and sanitation practices were in general:
Bathing was pretty common even for commoners across the region, with Tenochtitlan in particular also having it's streets and buildings washed daily by a fleet of civil servants, who also collected waste from public toilets to be reused for dyes and fertilizers. We have multiple documents which have hundreds of recorded medical and herbal treatments, much of which have been found to be medically effective, and even innovative: They had the first use of intramedularly rods for setting fractured bones, and even the modern birth control pill was synthesized from a plant used as an aborficant in indigenous cultures in Mexico. A lot of their understanding of herbal remedies came from academic botanical gardens, where plants were experimented with, studies for medical properties, and even sorted into a formal binomial taxonomic systems, centuries before Carl Linnaeus. Even Francisco Hernández de Toledo, the personal royal court physician and naturalist to the Spanish king, ended up traveling to Mexico and adapting Aztec records on Flora, Fauna, and medicine and begrudgingly admitted that Aztec sciences in those areas were superior to those of Spain's (a claim others, including Cortes, also made).
I realize this was a large tangent, but it incidentally touches on quite a few things that came up in this video or the channel regularly covers: The feathers, animal care, taxonomy, etc. If you're interested feel free to let me know and I can send some papers, studies, excerpts, etc on more of this stuff (there was actually a conference pretty quickly on some surviving shields and how feathers were sourced for the feather mosiac outer covering they had, which bird species were used, etc)
thanks for taking the time to type this, i enjoyed reading.
@@trav537 No problem, always happy to share information about Mesoamerican history. If you're curious for more you can DM me on twiter, I'm Majora__Z there
Clint seems like such a nice dude
The worst thing about having dart frogs is that you have to constantly breed fruit flies for them
they flies are defiantly the BIG rub!
I don’t know, I think it’s easier than constantly buying crickets. We’ve been running off of the first culture we bought 6 months ago. Six months for about $35 spent and 5 minutes every other week (to cycle cultures) is a snap.
@@FamilyTanks, we live the cricket story! I love all of our crested geckos though. We live a F/T mouse story too :P
Crickets are easier to find in a pinch than fruit flies. More than once I've paid the >$50 for priority overnight shipping to get fruit flies after my own culture crashed. At least in my area all of my local pet stores have crickets. The fruit flies though are small, expensive, winged, and often out of stock or it's a green culture not yet producing enough food.
You are correct and that's nothing, so really they are awesome, easy to keep jewels of the jungle.
D Y E R S C O L O U R S✨
I saw that video
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A SMOL BEASTE WIÞ FORE LEGGYS, WHICH LIEÞ BOOÞ ON WOTER AND ON LOND!!!
Explored your channel just today and I absolutely love it.
Before I knew what I was doing, I bought 3 dart frogs from a large retail pet store. 5 months go by and they all passed 😔 My two dart frogs that I’ve bought from Josh’s Frogs are still going strong and are doing great!!! I’m obsessed with Josh’s Frogs and love their company so much!!! 😁 Plus they send little notes with their products thanking you for your purchases lol They’re great!!
Love this! Thank you for supporting us! We're so glad to hear that you enjoy the notes! And that your frogs are doing well!
I'm looking forward to the day when clints covers pixie frogs and Pac-Man frogs as possibly the best pet amphibians. I'm really interested to hear what he has to say about those big boys!
I second this
He's partially covered Pixie Frogs already but I would love to see a full video on them!
I love dyeing poison dart frogs... they are soooo pretty! “Not because they have a habit of becoming deceased...” Gotta love Clint, too!
Hey Clint, I really hope that one day you'll cover hermitcrab care! I am very active in the subreddit and it just happens too often that people buy them at a beach store for $1 and then don't know how to care for them, and you covering that topic may safe some lives!
man, these frogs are so incredibly nice to look at! just so pretty i will always be in awe of their colours no matter how long i stare at them!
Thank you Dr. Clint! got my first dart frogs, ive wanted them since i was a kid. you answered all the questions i had about keeping them.
Thank you so much I love dart frogs they’re so colourful and just a joy to watch
I recently discovered your channel and I’m really enjoying these videos. I never really cared much about reptiles, but your enthusiasm and passion has got me really interested! Keep it up, Clint!
Fruit fly culture would be awesome!!!
Striking coloration, wonderful personalities, in other words, stinking rad! Love the video my friend!
This is my favorite color of dart frog! Super cool to see you featuring them.
Thanks for doing what you do clint!!
Awesome video, as always.
This video was so helpful. I’ve been looking for a good dart frog for awhile and now I know the best one! Thank you so much Clint!
I have been waiting for this video for soooo long!
YES THIS IS THE ONE I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THANK YOU CLINT
These are, hands down, my favourite frogs!
Tons of great information on here!!!
Alot of people have been waiting awhile for this one!
Wow. This is perfect, I am literally setting up our dart frog enclosure right now!!
OMG I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS EPISODE ALL OF MY LIFE!!! 😭😭😭
YOU DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!I HAVE BEEN ASKING SOOO MUCH!!!!AND U DID IT
I love the videos and the Mr. Roger's personality.
This one is going to be a banger !
Yay fun Cheyenne shout out! These frogs are so gorgeous 😍
I definitely think a video on establishing feeder colonies would be great!
Usually I hate when people mention sponsors but I could listen to you talk about joshs frogs all day
I'd love to see a video on the Australian Olive Python. They're beautiful snakes and can be amazing and calm natured creatures but are massive and even capable of eating crocodiles. Given the amount of Australian reptiles kept by keepers over there in America, I'm sure you'd be able to find one.
Would LOVE a video on culturing your own fruit flies!
love these guys
I'd love to see a video on the Mata Mata! Theyre so cool and Im interested in having one some day but I want to make sure I fully understand, and your videos are always so helpful with that
I love that you gave the temp in Kelvin lol
Wow! thanks for the video Clint! You always make me wanna buy one lol!
Never in million years did I think I'd get into frogs but my husband got is first auratus frogs last November, leucs earlier this month and I'm getting some leucs too! They are so relaxing to watch and growing the bioactive tank is half the fun!
Great video, as always!
I’d love to see you start a new type of video where you compare very closely related species, or different localities of the same species. For example what’s the difference between green, blue, and black tree monitors, or what are the differences between all the Green Tree Python localities, or between all the different milksnakes? There isn’t enough information about that type of stuff out there!
It would be super helpful to know too as a lot of these different species/localities also have slightly different care requirements.
Finally i always wanted an episode on poison dart frogs
Been waiting for this one!
I love your videos in fact you're the one who inspired me to make my own reptile TH-cam channel
I’ve been waiting for this video yay!! Also, I love your peperomia rosso c:
Looking forward to the stinking rad enclosure vid :D
I like that your back to making videos on animals that make reasonable pets. Don't get me wrong I like large dangerous animals too, but I like being introduced to animals I was unaware of and that make great pets. Still waiting on a Durmerils boa video.
A better title would be "Poison Dart Frog, Best Pet Living and Interactive Painting in Frog Form?"
I'll consider it
Clint:"you can do it by hand if you're very diligent"
Me with ADHD:"a misting system it is" (if I ever get animals like these that need very regular misting)
Hi Merlijn
Or get a bluetooth humidity monitor with an alarm to notify you when it drops. Cheaper than a misting system.
@@samanthamotley712 if I'm getting these kinds of animals, I'm more than happy to spend a little more on a misting system for my peace of mind, but good to know
We dont need you to ask, we love everything you upload
These cuties are amazing. Nature’s colours are magnificent 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
I've been waiting for this episode. Ive been debating if I want these or not.
Get them! They’re so great 😄
I really love how you are paying so much attention to reptiles
Reptiles hardly get attention and everyone takes reptiles as those huge lizard like deadly creatures but you are one of those people who prove them wrong and are giving reptiles the attention they deserve
Reptiles can be as beautiful and interesting as mammals if you just pay attention and you have my full support 💖
I love this channel, I'm surprised I wasn't subscribed
A big YES for Josh,s Frog,s. I don't do PDF,but they have great stuff for all animal keepers.I keep tarantulas,and regularly buy from them.
Thank you for the support!
Definitely a video on culturing insects! :)
These videos are stinkin rad thank you!
I've been waiting for this episode! I love poison dart frogs so much! Unfortunately in Florida it is very warm and we keep our house in the high 70s. We've been thinking of getting some of the bumblebee dart frogs or even some bumblebee toads instead because they are a bit more heat resistant.
Got some last October and it’s been a blast! The setup is tough on your pockets but worth every dime. Josh Frogs definitely made the process easy with frogs and setup. Been breeding my own crickets, flies, and springtails (that part is harder than keeping the frogs lol)
Just wanted to stop by and say thank you for bringing us all these video's.
I've always had a thing for the more weirder animals living on this planet,
I suppose my allergy to cats also helped me down my path in preferring Reptiles and Amphibians.
Today marks the day of me finally, after 15 years of interest, getting my own pet snake.
While not from a specialized breeder, since we didn't have any of those where I live, my Cornsnake Herman and I quite enjoy each other already.
Ironically, I came across him in the store while I was shopping for my terrarium and other requirements as I was going to go on a trip later to get a hognose.
Instead, I saw a small hatchling Corn', that had such a funky pattern, having both 2 quite-different patterns as well as 2 shades of color.
I knew then, that I had to get him, I guess that's how every owner feels when they come across their new friend, hahaha.
Anyways, thanks once again for all of the information and video's, hope you have a great day!
(And of course, excuse my english, non-native speaker.)
Clint came through! I think I saw comments asking for a dart frog video.
I didn't ask for it, but it's a good video.
I myself have dendrobates Leucomelas and i can not tell you enough i am so in love with them they are so cute and funny to watch and their calling is really relaxing i would highly recommend getting those frogs and i am looking forward to get some others!!!
Another great video.
I never knew. Now I do and I'm so excited to get a frog!
ive had my leucomelas for years and they are so easy to care for
Yes! Please explain how one starts and maintains a fruitful colony
Got my dart frogs from Josh's last year and I love them
Aww, yay! So glad to hear that!
Would love to see a video comparing and contrasting the different types of dart frogs!
I love when you do amphibians!!! You should do tiger salamanders :) I have one and I love him so much, he’s the only animal of mine who comes to the glass when I walk in the room
I had a tiger salamander. He would exit his burrow and put his hand on the glass in anticipation of food whenever he saw me. Never even minded being held either. Probably the hardiest and most affectionate pet amphibian ever.
@@scizorzzz same! He stands up against the glass when he sees me and if I open the doors he walks right onto my hand. I even hand feed him, I love him so much
That’s why you had dart frogs in the reptile room!
I was inspired by this video and will probably get some some day!!
9:43 fruit walks…. I laughed much more than I should have.
I've actually been working on a bioactive dart frog tank! Almost done with the background. I was thinking about dendrobates auratus.
"Fruit Walks" 😂
I love frogs so much hands down my favourite animal
Perhaps Cheyenne will be interested in trying this experiment 😂 this made me laugh
Poison dart frogs have to be the most cutest and most beautiful amphibian, but I don’t wanna keep one.
Pretty colorful.
Loved the shoutout to Cheyenne
I saw them once in a pet expo, when you see them live their color is stunning
Fruit walks are easy to keep as a colony. I recommend that the container be very tall and that the lid be of the variety that snaps down, not threaded because the larvae can get out of a threaded lid. Also, the taller the container, the easier it is to tap down the little crawlers to keep them from swarming out. Next, I recommend having a large Tupperware to tap some fruit walks out into as a way to control how many come out when you shake it. Finally, don't let other fruit flies get into your culture. Keep them in your fridge and don't open them if you have fruit flies infesting your home. Why? The same reason Clint said not to mix the varieties of fruit walks. Because it refreshes the gene pool and makes it so that they fly again. Also, it doesn't even have to be specifically another variety of fruit fly. Mycovore gnats are close enough in relation that the species often interbreed. Mycovore gnats are also called beer flies or bar flies. They eat the yeast and mildew build-up around drains in human houses and food service businesses. So cover your drains and occasionally use the appropriate pest control to prevent getting infestations from your feeder colonies. Trust me, that's an embarrassing problem to have. We all have probably had cricket problems before. Fruit flies are just as annoying.