Current chapel frog situationpic.twitter.com/qy7ZQX7MRS
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These frogs aren't poisonous in captivity. The tadpoles you see here were bred in the US, and all but one species have very healthy wild populations. The one species that is vulnerable is facing challenges *not* due to the pet trade, but due to habitat loss (coffee plantations).
As with any other animal in your home, it's important to meet their specific needs and not release them into whatever wooded area if you can't care for them, as they'll likely die. But these aren't dangerous, and keeping them doesn't threaten their populations in the wild.
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I was watching BBC America instead of working yesterday. One of the red ones took her six tadpoles, one-by-one, to these upturned conical leaf structures holding water. ..Then laid an unfertilized egg in each pool for the tadpole to eat. ..Every few days May get interesting.
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They usually use bromeliads, so that was probably the plant you saw! They don't need much water, but they do need a food source that doesn't degrade quickly enough to sully the water
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