Poison Dart Frogs: A Complete Guide to Dendrobatidae (Complete Herp Care) [Paperback]

Amanda Sihler (Author), Greg Sihler (Author)

Book Description

Series: Complete Herp Care | Publication Date: October 2007

Poison dart frogs are known by many for their bright colors and poisonous skins. This expert guide covers all of the common species as well as a number of rarer ones, and is the only up-to-date book available on keeping and breeding these amphibians that is written by professional breeders. It also covers important care topics to encourage health and happiness in your pet.

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From the Publisher

From The Leader In Responsible Animal Care For Over 50 Years! comes Complete Herp Care, an exciting series of reptile and amphibian books for both beginner and advanced hobbyists.

Each title in the Complete Herp Care series contains:
* All-new, in-depth, current information on a wide variety of topics, including breeding, housing, nutrition, and health care
* No canned text--all text is newly written by breeders, herpetologists, and other herp experts for each book
* Fresh new design combines informative text and accompanying full-color photographs--plus sidebars and tip boxes

About the Author

Amanda and Greg Sihler are the husband and wife co-owners of Arizona Dendrobate Ranch, a company that breeds and sells many species of poison dart frogs. Their dart frog information website has been online since 1995. They live in Mesa, Arizona, with their three children and many frogs.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: TFH Publications (October 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0793828937
• ISBN-13: 978-0793828937
• Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 5.7 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #358,182 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A Good Book, March 22, 2011

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Elizabeth Marie (USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Poison Dart Frogs: A Complete Guide to Dendrobatidae (Complete Herp Care) (Paperback)

Poison Dart Frogs (Complete Herp Care) was good book back a few years ago. It provides generic instructions on fruit fly culturing and housing construction. Taxonomic information is now incorrect (correct at time of publication) and inaccurate information is provided in at least one section (page 9, Dendrobates auratus can be removed legally from Hawaii with a permit, while the book claims it is illegal.) It does provide a nice section previewing species. It is not a bad book to have, but not as instructional as another.

I recommend Poison Dart Frogs: A Guide to Care and Breeding which is a better beginner's guide. It provides detailed instructions on habitat design with pictures. It guides you though the process instead a page and half instructions on design with only 4 pictures or no pictures in the case of backgrounds.

If you are wanting specific species information spend the money on Poison Frogs: Biology, Species & Captive Husbandry. It is the "bible" of Dart Frogs, it is the best dart frogs book to date, hands down a must have for any hobbyist.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent reference resource, January 12, 2009

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Kat Parks (Arid-Zona) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Poison Dart Frogs: A Complete Guide to Dendrobatidae (Complete Herp Care) (Paperback)

After having read several other books about tree frogs and keeping them, we found it difficult to find consistant advise that worked for us. The false bottom tank modelwas perfect, and in fact we had been buying our dart frogs from the authors, so we saw it first hand.

The book is well written, doesn't assume you are a professional herpetoculturist or herpetologist, but someone who wants to add some amazing color to their terrarium or creating the perfect habitat for some minature frogs.

The Sihlers have been raising dart frogs for well over a decade, starting when not a lot was known about breeding, yet they managed to become top class breeders of Rain Forest amphibians in the middle of the Sonoran Desert.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I recommend this book to anyone just starting out in this Hobby!, May 12, 2008

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Maureen W "Maureen" (New York, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Poison Dart Frogs: A Complete Guide to Dendrobatidae (Complete Herp Care) (Paperback)

I purchased this book two weeks ago and read it entirely in just a few short days and I must say i have never been more pleased with a book, I had a lot of fears going in to this hobby as I have read elsewhere that these Frogs can be very hard to keep and this book has help put me at ease, from breeding to health and feeding this book has you covered.

The only thing I wish they went more in to was new vivarium setups and that they can get mold growth in them, this however will disappear overtime (found out with a bit of googling), but then the book is about keeping dart frogs and not vivarium joys & horrors. So I will excuse this factor. :D