so I've been really wanting to create a live plant vivarium for my future snake, but didn't want to ruin the custom build cage im making it. what i did was practice on a 10 gallon tank (20x10x11high. i really jumped the gun and didn't fully think the steps though. i made a false floor following the steps on this site with the egg crates, it worked really well, but the waterfall pump requires 2" of water, so my false floor is 3" off the tank floor... this doesn't leave much room for plants and such... or something to live in the vivarium for that matter. i need help choosing a suitable frog OR lizard/salamander to inhabit the vivarium. i really dont want to throw this thing away as it did take a bunch of my time and my sons excited to have a "ribbit" in the collection.

also, there was only a few plants on the sticky forum here with pictures, so i also need help choosing plant life that stay relatively small.