Reviewing Your Vivariums #1 - Are They Better than Mine?
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- Опубликовано: 30 июл 2024
- A while ago, I asked you to send in pictures of your vivariums, and today, we're going to review some of them! Most of the vivariums that were sent in house dart frogs, but there are a few that house other animals too.
This was livestreamed on this channel about a month ago, and this the edited version. The stream was a bit too long to fit into one video, so there is a part two coming out in the near future
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Full unedited livestream (cringe warning):
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The video I mentioned, where I show you how I treat my cork bark panel backgrounds: • How to SET UP a DART F...
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00:00 Intro
00:54 Vivarium 1
02:44 Vivarium 2
04:35 Vivarium 3
06:44 Vivarium 4
07:50 Vivarium 5 (and a rant about beginner frogs)
09:45 Vivarium 6 & 7
11:45 Vivarium 8 (tarantula)
12:27 Vivarium 9
14:07 Vivarium 10
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Music:
Lakey Inspired - Arcade
Lakey Inspired - Better Days
Lakey Inspired - Distant
Lakey Inspired - Days Like These
Dj Quads - Blushes
Artificial.Music - Faithful Mission
Barradeen - Bedtime After A Coffee
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Loved this! It’s fun to see people’s vivariums and a great way to get inspiration😊
Thank you for watching! This was a really fun video to make, and as I mentioned, there is a part two coming soon. As you might notice, smiling in front of a camera isn't really my strong suit yet, but I suppose that'll get better over time.
What do you think about this kind of commentary content? Do you enjoy it, do you not care about it or do you think that I should stick to tutorials? Please let me know here in the comments.
I think these videos are really fun to make, and they take less time to make than my normal content since I don't need a script (which admittedly makes it take longer to edit the video instead, but still less time overall), but I definitely don't want them to overshadow the tutorials on this channel
Great video. I'm just getting into vivariums and loved seeing all of the different set-ups. I have to mention, what you said about tarantulas isn't correct. It's unfortunately a common outlook in the hobby, but luckily one that's changing. People are planting larger, bio-active enclosures for tarantulas, and learning that, obviously, they appreciate it, and do indeed utilize the enclosure. I bet if someone locked you in a bathroom sized room with a chair, you'd spend most of your time just sitting on the chair(being depressed). But if they gave you an apartment with a TV, a treadmill, some art supplies, etc, you'd probably use them. My tarantulas, which are often seen as the "they don't need space" type, use all of their enclosures, which are Much larger than many people would say they "need". I bet the same sort of logic applies to dart frogs? Sure, they might not die in a smaller enclosure, but a large, planted enclosure is better for them, and more interesting for you.
Thank you for the comment! I do still stand by what I said, even though it could probably be worded more carefully. Of course, a bigger enclosure is better to a certain extent, and it's certainly never worse than a small one, but tarantulas have a very passive lifestyle and in my opinion, they don't benefit that much from a giant enclosure compared to a decently sized one. Of course I'm not saying that you should keep them in something super tiny either; they need sufficient room to create a burrow, a web castle or settle down in whatever hiding place the chosen species prefers. I cannot recall the last time I saw any of my tarantulas being more than a decimeter away from their hiding place (whether that'd be a cork bark tube, a web castle or a burrow), despite my entire current collection having 40+ cm wide planted vivariums. The general exception to this is mature males, which move around a lot in search of a partner, but females and juvenile males are not like that.
If a tarantula is wandering around aimlessly all the time (basically, if they are behaving like a mature male when they aren't), rather than making themselves at home in a borrow and staying fairly close to it, then this is often a warning sign that they aren't thriving. Of course they can sit outside of their hide every now and then, and they often walk a small distance away from it at night, but if they are constantly on the move without settling down somewhere, this is a bad sign that there is something wrong in the enclosure (the most common mistake is too little substrate to dig in, or poor access to a good hide to settle in). A still tarantula is generally a happy tarantula, at least when it has settled down (when it's freshly rehoused it's a different story for a while at first).
Of course we should try to mimic our animals natural habitats as closely as possible, but at the same time, we have to keep in mind that tarantulas are extremely primitive, so comparing their feelings to those of humans or even vertebrates like frogs is a big stretch in my opinion. With reptiles and amphibians, and especially highly active ones like dart frogs, I strongly recommend having as large vivariums as possible. However, in the wild, dart frogs have massive territories that are far bigger than any of our vivariums, while tarantulas almost exclusively stay in the close vicinity of their burrows, which is why I'm not strongly advocating that bigger is better in the case of tarantulas, as long as it's big enough to meet their basic requirements (though I'm certainly not discouraging bigger enclosures either).
I have a second hand tank with leuco's I made the paludarium more green with neoregelias and a Loth more driftwood and added a little spot because it was also housed by one lepidodactylus lugubris but one adult so added 4youngster about half year old each even noticed some new Borns 2days ago from the original mourning gecko I also have Klemmeri's and steudneri micros and love big setups love the channel also really nice work on your enclosures really does good to see other people start the hobby/breeding on young ages Keep up the good fun work also would love to show some pictures of my enclosures if you don't mind
Great idea and concept!!
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Awesome! love this content! where do i submit pictures for part 2?
Part two will also be vivariums that were featured on the livestream I did (this video only covered the first half of the submissions in that stream). I'm not currently taking submissions for a future video (would get kind of weird to eventually review vivariums sent in 6+ months ago). Whenever I do a part three, I'll announce it on my youtube community tab. It'll probably be a while until then (I think I'll try to do livestreams like this once or twice a year, since I don't want to flood my channel with only vivarium reviews). My "business email" (contact.tropical.tutorials@gmail.com) and my instagram DMs are always open though if you have any questions or want some general thoughts about your setup (in written form, wouldn't be included in a video).
5:13 Egg production is not a good indicator of a well designed enclosure. Some dart frogs are absolutely horrible at swimming, and others are ok but none are good swimmers. There are plenty of accounts of drowned frogs. "Plenty of space, is not really achievable with commercial enclosures. These species use large areas in the wild, many times larger that the largest tanks.
Thank you for the comments!
You have a good point about egg production not necessarily being an indicator of a perfectly set up vivarium, especially for species that are prolific breeders. However, I think it's most likely a sign that the vivarium is not complete garbage either.
In six years of constantly hanging out on many dart frog forums and facebook groups, I have yet to hear about a single confirmed case of a HEALTHY dart frog drowning in a water feature. If you know of any confirmed cases, please enlighten me! I have, on the other hand, seen plenty of footage of dart frogs swimming quite well (on short distances) and countless paludariums that people successfully keep their frogs in (not saying that paludariums are optimal since water features are a waste of space and there can be leaks, saturated substrate etc., but I'm saying I've never seen drowned frogs being the issue in them). I'd be very curious to learn which species you consider to be among the worse swimmers compared to other dart frogs. I have heard some speculate that Ranitomeyas could likely be worse than others, but I've never seen it backed up by anything. My Ranitomeya amazonica juveniles (not just fresh OOW ones, but also ones that were more than a month old) have dived to the bottom of empty tadpole cups (with roughly 6-7 cm deep water) standing in their growout vivarium, and remained underwater for up to 30 seconds without any issues.
Something that is a bit more common however is sick frogs being found dead in or near a water feature. I've actually found a Ranitomeya froglet with an anal prolapse dead in its water dish (which was shallow enough for it to stand in). This doesn't necessarily mean that an incapability to swim was the cause of the death; it seems like sick dart frogs often search up water when they're about to die, making it seem like they drowned. Frogs (specifically pumilio and tinctorius) drowning each other during territorial disputes is occasionally brought up as well, but I've only heard of one case where a frog (pumilio) even attempted it (and failed).
Plenty of space is a relative term. Of course, all of our vivariums are way smaller than the space the dart frogs utilize in the wild. However, if you consider an 18x18x18 to be an ethical size to keep frogs in, then I'd personally still say that a 36x18x36 is plenty of space compared to the hobby standard. To be honest, I'm probably overusing the word "plenty" in some places where I should instead use "sufficient" or "enough" (sorry, English isn't my first language), because the dart frog paludariums in this video aren't exactly giant (at least not the first one).
As I mentioned at one point in the video, if it was my tank I'd definitely skip the water feature and fill that part of the vivarium with substrate to maximize the usable surface area for the frogs. However, I'm also not going to condemn someone else's paludarium solely because of the water feature if the land area is still large enough on its own to ethically keep frogs in (which, in both paludariums in this video, I personally think it is) and there aren't any obvious design flaws (saturated substrate etc.).
I just got an exo terra frog and co 18x18x18 dart frog tank. You think 2 phylobates terribilis would be just fine in there?
@@franksantana6859 Absolutely, 3 wouldn’t be an issue either
I wouldn't know what to do with 20 eggs per week.
Seriously.
I’m sure he doesn’t raise them all (doing so, and flooding the market with a crazy amount of frogs, would be quite irresponsible unless you have a really good plan for how to find good homes for them all). They usually slow and take a break on their own every now and then.
@@Tropical_Tutorials Right on. That definitely would be an issue. Been searching videos, getting ideas for a 1st time bearded dragon project, my niece dumped on me. I'm going to try and get it right for the guy. Glad I found your channel man, good stuff. Only sub to the channels I give 9s & higher to lol.
Good stuff
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I would love to hear what previous merits you have in the field, because your channel with four subscribers isn't really enough to convince me :)
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