UPDATE:

The tank is currently stained, and the resin will be painted on tommorow.

After the resin is painted on, I will be going out snowshoeing looking for dry tree limbs (dry, but not rotted) for the background, and I don't even have to treat them, because my toads are WC!

Tonight, I got to thinking how I could make a simple water feature, with a small pump... it's not that easy with a wooden tank, but here's what I've come up with:



Now, for the bin, it will be something like this:
Walmart.com: Sterilite 50-Qt Wheeled Latch Box, Lapis, Set of 4: Storage & Organization

At 32" long x 19" wide x 7.0 deep, the toads will have plenty of room to swim, and most of the depth will be taken up with large, smooth rocks & aquarium gravel.

As for the pump, I was thinking the repti-flow 200 would work perfect.

So, the design would go as follows:

The pump sits in the corner of the bin, it pumps the water up, out of the bin (through a piece of PVC tube that will be burried under the substrate), about 40cm away to a large pool like piece of GS foam that would look like this:


Except the pool area would be larger, then the water runs back through the "stream" part of the GS foam, and spills back into the bin.

This way, the toads can either sit in the bin (which I would like to have some aquatic plants growing in) or the GS "pool and stream" area.

Please let me know what you think about this!

Thanks,

Royce