These frogs are native to Costa Rican, and have been around in the hobby for longer than I have! I seem to recall the ones I used to have being bigger than those I have now, but perhaps that's just a trick of the memory. Anyway, they are larger than aurotaenia, but not much. The group I am working with right now are around an inch and quarter in length, with a bright orangey red metallic stripe down each flank.

This frog is another good group frog, although like the other Phyllobates, best breeding may be achieved by keeping them in pairs. Like the other Phyllobates, they have a loud trilling call, similar to the call of D. leucomelas, and not dissimilar to a teakettle, although not quite that loud.

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Will spend lots of time in low vegetation, also spends time on ground, but definitely a climber.

Yes, this frog does well in groups.

Beginner.

Yes, should be ok with other species if not crowded

Not as common as it once was.

• More information on the original discovery,
  and discoverer, of P. terribilis
• A discussion of toxins in Dendrobatid frogs
• An excellent article by Dr. Sean Stewart
• A discussion of the discovery of batrachotoxin in birds in New Guinea