I do breed dart frogs,but am interested in breeding red eyes. I have a few questions:What light do I use? I want to use aquarium gravel covered with leaf litter and live moss, and I will not have a water feature, so how will I to clean out the water that gathers underneath? I usually have a water feature and use a turkey baster. I could not drill a hole and then have pipes to drain out the water because the enclosure will be on a shelf. Could I use an all glass top with no ventilation like I do with dart frogs? I plan on getting 5-7 adult red eyes, and when I get breeding activity do I seperate the pair from the rest of the group or do I let them breed communally? I want to put the tadpoles in one gallon containers. How many tadpoles will fit in each container? Sorry to flood everybody with questions, but I did not find a good site that will answer them.
Thanks,
JP

Also, do I need a rain chamber?

Also, what are all the things I need to raise tadpoles?

Welcome!

My best way to tell you how to do a red eye setup, is to show you what I have for mine, and describe it. So lets start out with a photo. *note, this is when it was first planted. It has grown in a whole lot since then.



Don't think darts, think tree frogs. You are thinking darts.

Rocks at the bottom for drainage. I top with a mix of organic potting soil and shredded coconut husk.

My bottom is covered in magnolia leaf litter where there aren't plants. I haven't had any luck growing moss. The frogs need lots of plant cover to feel secure which means the light can't get to the bottom to keep those tropical mosses alive.

They will need tall sturdy plants to live on and branches up high to perch.
As long as you don't over water, you won't have to worry about sucking out the water from the bottom. The plants roots will grow down there and they will take care of that for you.

The only water I have in there is a small water dish. They hardly use it. I mist once a day and this is pretty much where they get most of their water from. I'll water the tank (a good soaking) once a week for the plants.

Here is an excellent care sheet that will help you with humidity, temps and any other thing.
Amphibiancare.com >> Red-eyed Tree Frog Frog (Agalychnis callidryas) Care

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Rain chamber. Yes you will need one. Most people use the rain chamber to raise the tads so it servers for breeding and rearing. Here is a great example of a rain chamber.
http://www.herpcenter.com/video-Red-...eding-112.html

Once your frogs have laid eggs, you can remove them and keep the tads in the bottom. They raise like any other tad. You can feed them fish flakes, but I would really suggest getting a few water lettuce plants, some water hyacinth, etc.. They will need good filtration, but be sure to cover the intake tube with a filter itself so they don't get sucked in. And be sure once they start getting their front legs, to make some sort of land they can crawl out of.

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It seems like a lot of money and work to get a rain chamber, is it necessary for them to breed? There are egg/tadpole containers like this http://www.monkeyfrogs.com/agalychni...s/eggtray1.jpg , consisting of PVC pipe cut in half, an air stone, plastic sterilite, could I use that instead?

Yes, they won't breed without a rain chamber. Sorry. The rainy season MUST be simulated. Its really not that much, I bet you could make it yourself. All you need a is a pump with a filter. Most people make their own rain system out of tubing they punch holes into.

That link you posted would be fine for the eggs, but the eggs did not magically appear there on their own! Usually the RETFs will lay them in the rain chamber onto the leaves, then you could move the leaves to something like that, but why would you when you already have a perfectly good rain chamber made that can double?

Plus you REALLY need good filtration. The better the filtration, the more likely your tads will survive.

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My waterfall that dumps into a water section by splashing from one rock to another seems to do well...I'll submit pictures later. I use a Whisper 20i filter surrounded by rock structure with a small/thin slab of slate as a cover over the top. It splashes up and out very well. My Red-eyes love sleeping on the vegitation hanging around the water fall.

Rodney