First verticle build...terrible pic quality :(

[mrmojorisin]

This is my first vertical build and only my second set up that wasn’t made for ease of cleaning/breeding/feeding. I don’t have pictures of each step just the finished product. If I titled this it would be called Unemployed and Bored.
I made very few purchases for this as I am broke, so I used what I had around. The BG is bamboo cut vertically and attached with silicone with about a 1” gap between each piece. I filled the gaps with Great Stuff then painted it and used silicone to attach coconut fiber. I cut vertical slits in the GS on the right side where I stuck various shapes and sizes of slate to create a water fall. The cord and tubing to the pump is behind the GS so, yes, I’ll have to tear it apart if the pump fails.
I used lava rock in place of expanded clay balls. That is topped by an old political yard sign I cut to size (in place of what would have been egg crate). I used a solder gun to make holes in the sign for drainage. Then 2 layers of screen followed by ¼” aquarium gravel over which I placed the substrate.

The substrate is a combo of potting soil, dirt/sand from my back yard and coco fiber. I have a box that I am trying to propagate microfauna so that’s where I took the substrate from. There is about 2-3” of moss in the foreground that runs the width of the enclosure. This is moss I collected from some local parks and canals in my area. All of the plants, with the exception of the house plant (don’t know the name of it) were taken from my yard and parks as well.
There is no pooling of water at the end of the waterfall. I used plastic for needle crafts then just covered it with slate and rocks.
I still have to install the hinge and second piece of door. Right now I just cover it with the screen top I used when I was breeding snakes.
It houses 2 WC green tree frogs (Hyla cinerea) that are about 1” SV length. It has been completed for about a month but the background plants were put in months ago to give them time to adjust.