09-15-2014, 01:30 AM
Here is the first viv I've designed and built. It's an 18x18x24 ExoTerra with a glass top, for an established auratus trio I'm moving out of a viv not really built for dart frogs. I've been letting it grow in and also futzing with the plants for a while.
The photos are too big so I just put them in this folder. There's a full view, a closer view of the ground, and a closeup of the Peperomia surrounded by two Rhaphidophora vines I have climbing up the back. The lighting is two 13W Jungle Dawn LEDs.
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id= ... sp=sharing
Some things are still missing. In the front left corner there will be a coco hut, currently incubating its folius moss in my terrarium. There will be a second one in the back right, underneath the ledge that three sea grape leaves are currently sitting on. I'm hoping this will help with the aggression that crops up when both females want to lay. In the back left where the Selaginella is resting, there will be another small water bowl. The two water features are solely for the frogs since I'll be pulling eggs for now but they really like having a soak now and then.
Also, there's only a smattering of leaf litter now to help incubate the microfauna. There will be a lot more live oak, covered with both magnolia and sea grape for different kinds of hiding places. I'm going to partly bury the cork tube with leaf litter.
I know it's a little overplanted but the old viv has mostly tall plants and an overly open floor, so I went the other way with this one to create as many visual distractions and barriers as possible. The frogs actually get along quite well; it's just when both girls are ready to pop that they get cranky.
Any suggestions, questions, criticisms, additions, would be very helpful. I'm wondering once I add the stuff I mentioned above, how much longer before the frogs can move in? Obviously the back wall isn't ready but it'll be too long before the vines mature. There's not exactly a time crunch, but I'd sort of like to turn the old viv into a grow-out for four froglets, currently tads who just popped their back legs.
The photos are too big so I just put them in this folder. There's a full view, a closer view of the ground, and a closeup of the Peperomia surrounded by two Rhaphidophora vines I have climbing up the back. The lighting is two 13W Jungle Dawn LEDs.
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id= ... sp=sharing
Some things are still missing. In the front left corner there will be a coco hut, currently incubating its folius moss in my terrarium. There will be a second one in the back right, underneath the ledge that three sea grape leaves are currently sitting on. I'm hoping this will help with the aggression that crops up when both females want to lay. In the back left where the Selaginella is resting, there will be another small water bowl. The two water features are solely for the frogs since I'll be pulling eggs for now but they really like having a soak now and then.
Also, there's only a smattering of leaf litter now to help incubate the microfauna. There will be a lot more live oak, covered with both magnolia and sea grape for different kinds of hiding places. I'm going to partly bury the cork tube with leaf litter.
I know it's a little overplanted but the old viv has mostly tall plants and an overly open floor, so I went the other way with this one to create as many visual distractions and barriers as possible. The frogs actually get along quite well; it's just when both girls are ready to pop that they get cranky.
Any suggestions, questions, criticisms, additions, would be very helpful. I'm wondering once I add the stuff I mentioned above, how much longer before the frogs can move in? Obviously the back wall isn't ready but it'll be too long before the vines mature. There's not exactly a time crunch, but I'd sort of like to turn the old viv into a grow-out for four froglets, currently tads who just popped their back legs.
A girl named Joey.