New home, new babies

[Marco Caccianiga]

Hi everybody!

Since the last time I wrote, the family has grown.. For the second year, without no winter rest, the tank was full of eggs, and now 24 new toadlets are wainting for a new home.
As I have two babies from last year, and two new "golden" fbts, I decided to prepare a new home for the adults. This is the setup, what do you think? The tank is 60x40x45 cm and 8 toads live there. There is a filter under the bark on the right, a lot of plants both in the water and in the land part.
My toads seem to like it.. one month after they moved there.. eggs again (third time)!! Now I have about 65 tadpoles more to grow, just 2 months after the last breeding (I'm not sure who are the parents, now).
That's all for now.. Thank you for any comment!
Marco

[FinnyBird]

Sweet setup. Where'd you get the lilypads? And what sort of moss is that in the water, bottom right in the first picture?

[Marco Caccianiga]

Thank you for your answer!

The lilypad is Hydrocharis morsus ranae (frogbit), which unlike the "true" lilypads (Nimphaea) is a floating plant. Mine come from a small piece I had from a local cultivator of aquatic and carnivorous plants. It grows vey quickly (up to a new leaf a day) and frogs like to go on it and attach eggs on its floating roots. The other rounded floating leaves belong to Hydrocotyle leucocephala, which is able to grow on the terrestrial part and can become a weed (I have to prune it frequently)
The mosses on the filter are a mix between Taiwan moss and spicky moss. I don't know exactly where they come from, I have them since a long time and there is a continuous exchange with my aquarium. In the water there are also Riccia fluitans, Lomariopsis lineata, Eleocharis acicularis, Anubias barteri and Microsorum pteropus
On the terrestrial part there are different mosses and sphagnum. The big fern on the branch is Lecanopteris lomarioides (ant fern); the smallest are Polypodium vulgare. I also have a Nepenthes in a pot hidden in the substrate.
This is, more or less, the flora of the paludarium...

[Aaron Boswell]

Love the tank I will be ordering some Hydrocharis morsus ranae (Frogbit) will replace the plants that have been broken in the first few days of FBT ownership

[RobynSYR]

Nice setup!

[Sunshine]

I love your tank!!!