Our first tank setup

[NatureLady]

More photos of this setup here https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/1...9709788/albums

Thanks for these additional photo's. I am officially jealous!

[Nano]

Thanks for these additional photo's. I am officially jealous!

I'm sure your setup will look very nice too! I'll make another posting right after this one with some photos of the new setup we made...

[Nano]

OK.

This is the new setup of our tank. We used the same method and materials that we used in the previous setup, but we made some changes (improvements?), so we'd like to call it v2 ;-)

Finally got around to taking some more photos (still a bit crappy ones as my camera is broken so I took them with the phone) ;-)

Hope you like it!

These are some pieces of wood we found in the forest behind our house...



A mushroom we found in our backyard. We used it to create a stand. At the moment water runs through it so they go there when they want to get wet




Laying expanding foam on the background together with some pieces of wood... The bottom (ground area), is a work in process at this stage... It has been cut but still needs foam to cover the front...



Testing the ground area with the background. Everything seems to fit perfectly!
The background had the front done with foam, then a layer or black pond sealant and immediately some coco peat sprinkled on top. The ground area has the same process but instead of coco peat, we sprinkled sand on top of the pond sealant.




Here you can see the area that has been allocated to the pond/aquarium...
You can also see the filter pipe sticking out. It will be covered with rocks later on.



Added some plants, moss some rocks and water
We also setup a rain system at the top of the lid. We added some aquarium tubing with tiny holes, connected to the waterfall. We also added some taps to be able to divert the water to the waterfall or to the rain system.



The pond!



Added some more aerial plants!


and also more aquatic plants



And... This is a video of the tank running - on a rainy day- ;-)

https://plus.google.com/u/0/110416584292969709788/posts/DFoswBCssS9

[NatureLady]

What type of pond sealant did you use?

I want to live in v2! I bet the frogs love it!

[Kristen]

It turned out amazing!
You're getting the hang of this whole vivarium building real quick!

[Nano]

Thanks Amanda! I can see that if the rain is not on for a couple of days, when I put it on, they came out straight away under the rain! So I think they like it too!

regarding the background, I used "Crommelin Pond Sealer - Black" (Pond Sealer Colours: Waterproofing: Crommelin) but I think you won't find that in US. You might have to do a research on what fish-safe pond sealer you can find there. This one came in 3 colours, black, clear and sandstone.

The coco peat that goes on top of it doesn't always stick, so I thought that black would be better as the expanding foam was already a bit yellowish and I wanted this to look rather dark in the places where the coco peat came off.

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Kristen, Thanks for your comments This time I think I will enjoy it like this for a while until they grow. At that stage I think I might have to go a bit more minimalistic in the design as I heard that the GTFs get a bit destructive :-p
By the way, I've been meaning to ask you for a while but I always forget. What does the coding on your signature stand for? I mean the numbers (ie 1.0.0)

[Kristen]

regarding the background, I used "Crommelin Pond Sealer - Black" (Pond Sealer Colours: Waterproofing: Crommelin) but I think you won't find that in US. You might have to do a research on what fish-safe pond sealer you can find there. This one came in 3 colours, black, clear and sandstone.

The coco peat that goes on top of it doesn't always stick, so I thought that black would be better as the expanding foam was already a bit yellowish and I wanted this to look rather dark in the places where the coco peat came off.

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Kristen, Thanks for your comments This time I think I will enjoy it like this for a while until they grow. At that stage I think I might have to go a bit more minimalistic in the design as I heard that the GTFs get a bit destructive :-p
By the way, I've been meaning to ask you for a while but I always forget. What does the coding on your signature stand for? I mean the numbers (ie 1.0.0)

Thats okay
Just try to get really hardy plants and you should be fine, (Though I have been through heaps of plants with Eddie and Kevin, they just trample on anything :P )
Its Male/Female/Unsexed So 1.2.3 would be one male, two females and three you don't know the gender of.

[J Teezy]

what are the black circles on the sides of the viv?