Viv build for White's Tree Frogs

[Lixra]

As the little baby White's are growing and growing, I'm moving them on up to a larger Exo Terra. This will be my first time attempting a pseudo build, so I'm starting out small, nothing too major. After hemming and hawing quite a bit, I've decided to not go with a live planted viv as I seem to have acquired a great skill for killing plants. While it would be more aesthetically pleasing to use live plants, as well as help with the humidity, I would feel bad getting in plants that would just inevitably die. I have, however, picked out a lovely variation of silk plants to decorate with.

I've also purchased some sheets of coconut fiber mats to use on the sides of the viv and possibly the floor. I do have some bags of sphagnum moss we use in the corn snake egg incubation tubs, and wasn't sure if anyone has used this with their White's. So not sure if that's a yea or nay vote on that one.

I'm going to sterilize the viv tonight and let it sit overnight, and set everything up tomorrow. If the temp and humidity stays consistent for 48 hours, I'll be moving the White's in and be sure to post pictures along the way

Here's a few shots of the future inhabitants!

[kueluck]

Anxious to see your tank. My 3 little WTFs will be in there hospital tank for a few more weeks, then into their permanent home and I'm always looking for ideas. And that's a little cutie you have there.

[deranged chipmunk]

Unless you are bowl or tong feeding. I would skip on the sphagnum. When those guys get larger, they will try to eat anything that is in their way of their food. Voracious is an understatement, to say the least....lol

[Lixra]

These guys won't tong feed, they don't realize it's food :P

I put them in a feeding tub and drop crickets in there for them and let them go nuts (within reason of course). I'm not really a big fan of the bowl feeding to be honest if you keep multiple frogs in one tank, I like to know how much each frog is eating and how often. I'm pretty anal about things like that haha.

I guess my main concern regarding the moss was if it was harmful at all to the frogs, as I haven't really heard of anyone using it in their tree frogs' viv.

The viv has now been sterilized up the the wazoo, and I'm leaving to aerate and dry tonight before putting all the stuff together tomorrow

Thanks for your advice!

[LunaDay]

I absolutely love the photo of the frog looking out the glass. That is adorable.

[deranged chipmunk]

I'm not a big fan of feeding them in a separate tub. I believe moving them constantly stresses them out. I rarely ever handle my frogs. I don't use the bowl of tong method, i just drop the crickets in and let the killers go at it. Lol if you are feeding them separately though, the sphagnum should cause no problems. The main reason we don't use it is a preventative measure against them accidentally swallowing some. It's not harmful to them in any other way but that.