Quote Originally Posted by GrifTheGreat View Post
It may be to strong at that diatance. Its really close to where tank will be and the full brightness of the light my harm his eyes. Even with your plant cover you plan to place within. I'm wondering if you will even have room for the bromiliads since they do get around 5 inches tall. You may have to rethink some ideas. He doesn't actually need 5" of substrate depth to burrow. 3" 0r 3 1/2" is plenty even for an adult. I'm not sure how much root depth you may need for the Brom since Don says that they don't even need soil to grow. A taller tank may have been easier to build on.

I'm pretty sure that you can get 10 gallon tanks with a height greater than the usual 12".
That's what I figured, but isn't that the purpose of the light? In the wild, I'm sure if a frog stayed in sunlight for 8 hours at a time, it would damage it's eyes too, so when the light comes on, the frog will know it is daylight and hide? I will be providing ample cover, and am going to make up soem vines out of rope, silicone and coco-fibre today to hang from one end of the viv to the other, I hope to get crepping fig or ivy started on these.

Between the vines, crepping fig, bromeliads, large tropical plant I have been growing for this viv, and multiple hiding places, I'm sure he will have enough cover.

To be honest, I do kind of regret building this set-up in such a small tank, but it is practice for my tomato frog, and toad build, not to mention, my pacman has a lot of growing left in him, so this tank should be good for a while at least.

Yeah, and as Martin mentioned you can make a slit in the foam background, stuff the brom into it, use something to hold it upright, and it will grow. I will be using ones that get 3-4" tall x 4-5" around.