"Continuity" of volume function on hyperbolic tetrahedra

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Consider a sequence $T_i$ of tetrahedra in $\mathbb H^3$ whose vertices tend to the vertices of a regular ideal tetrahedron $T$ in $\partial \mathbb H^3$. Then $$Vol(T_i)\to v_3.$$

This should follow from Lebesgue dominated convergence if $T_i\subseteq T_{i+1}$ for (almost) all $i$, since, calling $\nu$ the volume form on $\mathbb H^3$, $$|\nu\chi_{T_i}|\leq|\nu\chi_T|$$ so the integrals converge.

I think one can always suppose to be in this case by moving the $T_i$ by isometries: is this true? Is there a formally satisfying way to see it?

Thank you in advance.

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There are some explicit formulae for volumes of hyperbolic tetrahedra in terms of dihedral angles which are not just continuous but real-analytic functions, say, one by Ushijima (Theorem 1.1):

A volume formula for generalized hyperbolic tetrahedra.

(See also references to earlier works that he gives in the paper.) Dihedral angles, in turn, depend continuously (actually, real-analytically) on the vertices. Hence, volume is a real-analytic function on the vertices.