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They attend frog shows all over the country. PIERCE: Today, the Sihlers are one of the biggest dart frog breeders in the nation. Well, with some people, you can't just have a few frogs. SIHLER: Of course, our family is, like, oh, God, he's getting more frogs, and I was, like, it's just going to be a few tanks this time. The birth of their twin girls forced them to take a break but it wasn't long before they were back at frog breeding. They once dabbled with big(ph) geckos and red-eye tree frogs, but in the mid-90s their interest was darted by the Amazonian variety. PIERCE: The Sihlers have always been exotic animal aficionados. SIHLER: If they get out in Arizona, they turn into what we call frog jerky within half an hour to an hour. The frogs are showered with mist to keep them nice and humid in this land of scorching sand. By day, he's a computer consultant that loves coming home to work on the elaborate tanks he's designed to look like slices of the rainforest, some are even sprouting orchids. So again, you really would have to mess with one or stick it in your mouth. SIHLER: You could pick one of this up, and unless you have an open wound or something on your skin, the toxin is not going to immediately affect you.

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Without the right tropical diet, they don't produce the alkaloids that make their skin so dangerous. Lucky for us, only three out of the hundreds of dart frog species can take down a human, and even luckier, in captivity, the frogs aren't really toxic at all. A dark tip in the frog's toxin can paralyze animals almost instantly. Some tribes in South America use the poison to hunt. PIERCE: The frogs get their name from that toxin. It's the most - considered the most toxic land creature. Phyllobates terribilis is the true dart frog. GREG SIHLER: (Poison-Dart Frog Breeder, Phoenix, Arizona): These guys are interesting. He moves from tank to tank like a kid at show and tell. Greg Sihler is a bit more subdued in his outfit - an untuck pan(ph) polo shirt and a long ponytail bouncing down his back. The animals look like tiny creatures from a 'Star Wars' film that is computerized and not very real, and they come in all colors and patterns - blue, green, red, yellow, striped and spotted.

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Where most people have chair, pots, pans and maybe a coat rack, they have terrariums full of frogs.

The Sihlers breed, raise and sell poison-dart frogs, hundreds of them. Stepping into the Sihler's living room feels like you are entering the amphibian exhibit at the zoo. PIERCE: вЂ¦the rubber toy on their front porch are the only clues that this unremarkable two-storey home in the suburbs is anything but ordinary.

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THOMAS PIERCE: Both cars parked in Greg and Amanda Sihler's driveway have shiny Arizona license plates, each with slight variations spell out dart frog. And one of the biggest breeders in the United States is just outside Phoenix, a place pretty inhospitable to the rainforest-loving amphibians. More and more people around the world are getting their very own poison-dart frogs. There's a new trend in the pet world that has nothing to do with cockapoodles, ferrets or Siamese fighting fish.

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