Looking for dart frogs (1 Viewer)

[Niko5]

very cool

 

[Guest]

 

[Style23]

i would like to see more of the specifics of the tank, i thought about setting one up but couldnt figure out how i wanted to do it...do you have a false bottom or anything? and what did you make the background with it looks good...

 

[ShaneV]

Its a combination of a false bottom/sump.

It started out as an 90 gallon RR Oceanic. I ripped the overflow box out. I then installed eggcrate on 1"PVC spacers and a small piece of PVC to raise the water level to almost the eggcrate. Water flows down to the sump then back up and down the driftwood as a waterfall. (Pumped with a maxijet 600). I left the other bulkhead as a valve so I can drain the entore false bottom as needed.

For the background I used great stuff expanding foam in small layers. (Best tip there is to use gloves and allow time to dry.) I foamed over a few PVC caps as planters, and built up sections to give it more depth. After suffecient time to dry I smeared brown silicone over portions and pushed peat moss/coco fiber mix into the the silicone. I basically repeated that until it was all covered.

Id be glad to answer specifics if anyone has any.

 

[Guest]

Shane, you got lotts of fruit flies goin? Your azs look a bit thin.

 

[ShaneV]

Yep got quite a few cultures going and they are eating well. Ive ghad them running for about a month before I got the frogs in. They are eating well and starting to plump up.

 

[Guest]

Good deal Shane. With darts I find you can almost never feed them enough.

 

[landfish]

sweet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

on day I would like to keep dart frogs but keeping up with the flys was a PIA for me.

 

[Niko5]

Could you post more about how your doing the flies?

 

[MarkieB]

Are the plants alive?
It looks awesome! Great job!

 

[ShaneV]

Yep all the plants are alive and growing well!


Nick Ill post about fruit fly cultures later on today. Its not really much work, less then tank maintenance.

 

[Niko5]

Post some more pics too later