Quote Originally Posted by flybyferns View Post
Thanks very much, Brian
It has been relaxing and fun doing this conversion.
I enjoy taking care of the plants-too!
That's why I have gone through so much trouble w/ the planters.
Martin ( ViperJr) inspired me to create a separate place for my A. moreletii ; otherwise I would have never done it.
I had this "critter keeper" . It was my very first viv. I figured it was worth a try to convert it.

Autumn has done a conversion w/ this same enclosure as well. It's beautiful!

Lynn
Quote Originally Posted by J Teezy View Post
i don't think the water type would effect the humidity levels at all unless you are solely doing it for the frogs sake, but simple tap water with dechlorinator in it is most likely going to cause your nozzles to clog sooner. one thing i've found over the past couple days is that by hand misting my little 10 gallon the tanks humidity would drop faster than when my mistking was handleing the misting (i had to return my pump and zip drip valve to marty because they were leaking and i just got the replacements today so i'll keep an eye on it to see if what i'm saying holds true) but i also recently moved my heat mat closer to substrate level and my exo terra dual hum / temp probe sits on top of it and i have just a temp probe on the cooler side of the tank. The exo terra probe is an open probe and my sole temp probe is a closed one. As far as temperature accuracy of the two i put them both in the same spot and temp readings were about 1-2 degrees of each other so i'm hoping the humidity reading i'm going off of is pretty accurate. I'll probably get a closed humidity probe in the future as well though just to be safe, especially once my 29 gallon viv is up and running as the darts that are going to be in the 10 gallon will be getting moved to the 29. The exo terra gauge is also battery operated. I'm probably going to pick up a manual gauge at the reptile show this weekend just to have something to check accuracy against with.

Come on Lynn go buy one of those EcoZone controllers so you can run 4 dual temp / humidity probes at once!!! Christmas can't come soon enough because I know I'm getting myself one then unless i hit the lottery before then =).

Also have you thought of maybe calibrating your humidity gauges to see if maybe they are off?
Hey JT,

Lynn changed to De-chlorinated water because too much exposure to distilled water is bad and can cause health issues with frogs. Its mineral and salt lacking and actually steals vitamins, minerals, and salts from your frogs. She told me earlier that her frog was sitting in direct. Spray path with the MK and so would be soaked several times a day. Very unhealthy for the frog.

I almost have the substrate basket finished for my Viv. Its takesn some time.