waterfall and stream

[DonLisk]

Water features are always a nice ascetic addition to the tank but you may find it more troublesome than beneficial. Since WTFs will dirty that water on a daily basis, you may have to clean it all to often to keep it running well. If you decide to use one, make sure its accessible for maintenance without having to tear the whole tank apart.

With less aggressive frogs, such as darts and Red Eyed tree Frogs, the water stays cleaner longer, but with WTF that changes. Water with a WTF usually has to be changed daily once they get comfortable and begin soaking nightly. They will drag soil into the water and leave waste nightly in the water and this water shouldn't be left for them to re-soak in the next night.

Hope this helps.

[DonLisk]

Plants: Bromeliads, Pothos, and Snake plants are my suggestions.

Here is a sample of how I did mine for the WTFs. The bottom was done with eggcrate with a drainage pump. Info on that can be found under A Quick False Bottom.

[matt palm]

i thought it would be worth a try since it was only $16 and it comes with pretty much everything for the waterfall

[DonLisk]

You can definately try it and remove if you don't like it.

I have put them so the hose was running water out of the piece of cork flat or even round, and the water flowed down the cork and back into the substrate to collect and go back to the pump down in the drainage layer.
It worked fine but my pump started to humm after a while and was annoying in my bedroom since it was humming louder than the sound of the water running.

No reason not to try your idea or plan and like I said earlier, just make sure you can access it to clean/maintain when needed.

[matt palm]

yeah it should be in monday only thing is though is that im getting the tank tomorrow and the frogs the day after so i wont have it then to set up so im just gonna build it so all i have to do is add the cork bark and the pump and water. trust me as soon as i get it up and running i will have the results posted

[DonLisk]

What are you using for a base layer? Are your making a section where the pump will sit in just water or buried into the base layer?

[NatureLady]

I have this same waterfall! I have it piped to come out of a piece of drift wood. I made my pump a housing box that is covered in a make shift filter, just to keep any possible coco peat that finds it way into the water out of the pump. Mine has been working well for several weeks now. I change the water every other day, my wtf is very small and doesn't make a huge mess with himself yet.