Terrarium Organizing---Lots of Pictures!

[Poly]

After my toad swallowed a small piece of this loose moss, I decided to organize the tank better...:

Removed the moss, loosened up the soil, and cleaned the glass:



Old Moss: (Encase your wondering, the fork was used to loosen up the soil.)


Sandy side:


Planted a clover plant:


Put a new piece of christmas tree moss in, this moss works good, and dosen't break down, and stick to the toads like the other stuff, added some corn husks for leaf litter and half burried the "half log":


Added some leaves I picked up outside:


Birds Eye View with & without water dish: (Suggestions, improvments?)



Everything back in the tank:


This is the same moss as the new piece, but this moss, in the bag, is an old piece, I took it out to replace it with the moss that broke apart and stuck to my toads (big mistake), so I am wondering, is, even though, it's dying and turning brown, this moss still good to use? I know it's dying, so could it be used as a type of leaf litter?:


Water bowl, cleaned and filled up with fresh water:


Some shots of my (posing for the camera) black toad:





Oops! Didn't mean to use the flash! Poor little guy!



A shot of my brown toad, who took no interest in posing for the camera ():


As I said, if you have any suggestions or improvments for the tank, please let me know!

Thanks for looking!

~Royce

[BG]

Looks great poly. Very natural toad habitat .Love it. Great work.

[Poly]

Thankyou! Any idea, on re-using the old chirstmas tree moss?

~Royce

[kueluck]

Looks good, but you took away the chunck of wood for them to climb on. Mine love to climb to the look out spots.

[BG]

These little suv's cover alot of ground.lol They aregreat climbers.

[Poly]

They are great climbers.

The above statement is the reason that I removed the wood, I have no lid for the terrarium yet, so I came in one day to find my brown toad clinging to the top plastic rim of the tank, contemplating on jumping the 4 foot drop to the floor...

Looks good, but you took away the chunck of wood for them to climb on. Mine love to climb to the look out spots.

Once I get a lid, I'm going to put their wood back in, but as for now, I'm concentrating on getting stockpiled on insects.

[DonLisk]

Very nice Poly. I love the layout and there are many places for him to hide and dig in. I'm not a fan of putting that old moss back in or using it like leaf liter since it is possible for the frog to swallow it when grabbing a cricket to eat.

I didn't see mention of what lighting you have. If you want the plants to thrive, especially the moss, you need to add some sort of lighting. A single 6500K compact florescent bulb available at Walmart would surely be enough and costs about 5 USD.

Again, really nice setup.

[Poly]

Thankyou! I am going to be picking up an aquarium hood for it in the coming weeks.

[Poly]

Since the moss has been removed, they've started burring themselves in the sand, better than burrying in the moss?