My 45 Gallon Viv!

[DonLisk]

Really nicely done. Love the choice of plants. Gonna be some happy frogs in that build :-)

[erini]

Thanks John and Don! This is my first Viv so I take that as a huge compliment!

I started working on creating the lid for the top last night as well as covering up the filter and water heater holes. Those are tacks on there right now, I gotta get more staples for the staple gun. But I used gutter netting as the overall cover. The inner frame is wrapped in landscape mesh and is under the gutter netting to prevent any little toesies from getting caught. The mesh and the 1/2" height is also nice, because it filters and raises the light from being directly on the cage so the frogs won't be able to burn themselves on it. I have a similar set up on the two smaller holes, except that there's no wood, and they're siliconed down instead since I don't need to remove those. These aren't quite done yet, I'm waiting for my strips of magnets to get here, then I will fasten the strips to both the wood and the top of the tank so that the frogs can't move the lid. The magnetic pull with be about 10 lbs with both magnets together, so we should be good to go!

[erini]

Some better pictures, I took it outside to get some decent lighting