20 Gallon Long Vert Hourglass Tree Frog Tank

[killerecho]

This is my hourglass tree frog (dendropsophus ebraccatus) enclosure. It's a 20 gallon long vertical conversion so the dimensions are 12 x 12 x 30. There's only one frog in there at the moment; I'm hoping to get a few more in good time.

This is what it looked like shortly after construction in the spring, but after a particularly brutal summer, some of the plants failed to survive.


This is what it looks like nowadays. The ferns have grown in nicely, to the point that they're competing for ground real estate.


It's a boy!

[Sunshine]

I love it!!! Cute frog too! What is the plant in the front right corner?

[Bdimas]

Great looking vivarium! Pardon my ignorance but why do you call it hour glass? Is that the common name for your tree frog?

[killerecho]

Not sure which one you're referring to - in the first pic? I had mostly small bromeliads (neoregelias) growing out of that cork against the wall. The paddle-shaped leaves in the middle belong to a mini-bonnet orchid of the pleurothallis genus. The plant hanging over it is an aeschynanthus aka lipstick plant. Both were casualties of the heat wave we had in the summer

[killerecho]

Great looking vivarium! Pardon my ignorance but why do you call it hour glass? Is that the common name for your tree frog?

Yes that is the common name. The pattern on their backs have a tendency to resemble an hourglass shape. I don't have a good picture because mine tends to be shy. But do a google image search and you'll see what I mean.

[Sunshine]

In the second pic, its on the ground. It looks like some kind of fern.

[killerecho]

The lemon button fern?

[Sunshine]

That must be it! Thank you