RETF 29g Vert. Viv. Build Journal!

[CPgrower]

Hello, all!

I gave a bit of a back story in the intro area, but long story short: I used the wrong silicone in a dart build two years back, and the tank basically melted. Fortunately, I had no frogs. It was a pre-build...so I tore it all down and haven't looked back until now!

A frog came in with a plant shipment at the florist/greenhouse/garden center where I work. I built an awesome little tank over the weekend, while the frog stayed with me. He ate fine while with me. I left him one night at the greenhouse and bam...dead. He was still in the kritterkeeper at the time. I originally thought it was due to the cold in the greenhouse office, but now that I joined the site and looked around a bit...I'm thinking it may have suffered from impaction? I believe that is the term for it. I don't remember seeing droppings in the keeper. He was viciously eating a cricket a day, but I'm not sure they were coming back out. Not entirely sure of which situation did the poor guy in. He never got to enjoy the awesomeness of his viv, but it sparked a fire within me and helped me decide to get tree frogs as opposed to darts!

Now, I am building a tree frog viv and will document the journey here (I can tell you are all already so excited...LOL!).

Dart viv fail of epic proportions:

29g vert game plan (plus vines and lots more plants):

And so it begins:

Blank canvas and black foam to attach great stuff (yellow stuff is great stuff from the build for that frog at work. It peels right off, so I took it off this backing before putting it in the 10g tank. In order to conserve my bf's foam...shhh, don't tell..., I reused it for this build)/coat of grout for tree.

Next step is installing the false bottom and tree roots.

Thanks in advance for any and all comments/suggestions!