Description
Dart Frog Care & Bioactive Vivarium Starter Guide
Better frog care starts with understanding the animal you want to keep.
The Frogfather’s illustrated, 37-page handbook brings the essentials together in a practical quick-reference guide, designed to accompany our free Bioactive Vivarium Fundamentals course at Frogfather Academy.
Husbandry information fact-checked by Dr Greg Dickens
The husbandry information in this guide has been fact-checked by Dr Greg Dickens, a zoological veterinary surgeon and Scientific & Veterinary Adviser to The Frogfather. His professional input complements the practical frog-keeping and vivarium-building experience behind the handbook.
Species first. Habitat next.
Before buying equipment or planting an enclosure, start with the frogs. The guide helps you assess your available space, choose a suitable species and plan around its adult size, behaviour, social arrangements and care requirements.
That species-led plan becomes the foundation for your enclosure, planting, equipment and everyday routine.
What’s inside?
- Choosing your frogs: species identity, available space, usable height and social arrangements.
- Planning and construction: enclosure selection, hardscape, drainage, substrate and leaf litter.
- Planting with purpose: choosing, preparing and positioning plants for cover, structure and suitable growing conditions.
- The living system: springtails, isopods, decomposition and establishing a bioactive vivarium.
- Everyday husbandry: temperature, humidity, ventilation, misting, water, lighting, feeding and supplementation.
- Bringing frogs home: quarantine, settling in and recognising meaningful changes in behaviour.
- Behaviour and breeding: egg-laying sites, tadpole deposition, parental care and an introduction to raising young frogs.
- Long-term maintenance: practical routines, troubleshooting and an arrival-readiness checklist.
Learn through the course. Refer back to the guide.
Work through the free Fundamentals course to develop your understanding, then keep this handbook nearby as a reminder while planning, building and maintaining your vivarium.
Real photographs, clear diagrams, planning prompts and clickable navigation make it easy to revisit the relevant topic. Save the PDF on your phone, tablet or computer, or print a copy for your own reference.
Put your knowledge into practice
Once you understand what your chosen species needs, explore our bioactive vivariums and vivarium supplies and accessories to support your plan. Choose each item for the job it needs to do.
Format: Downloadable PDF
Length: 37 pages
Written by: The Frogfather
Husbandry information fact-checked by: Dr Greg Dickens
This handbook provides general husbandry education. Species-specific guidance and individual veterinary advice remain essential.
This is a digital download. No physical book, equipment or livestock is included.
