How does my Whites Tree Frog cage look?

[angel10252]

I have a White's tree frog named Nelson, and his tank mate Willie died a few days ago. He passed away before he could see his new home. But Nelson is still here to enjoy it. After about six weeks of replanting and letting these plants grow outside, I'm pretty sure I got all or most of the fertilizer off of the plants, and after the big rinsing I gave them right before I put them in there. Yesterday I cleaned his tank and put in the plants and rearranged a little to make room for everything. I'm still not quite finished but I think for now this will do since Nelson is still small. After I put all the plants in last night, I went ahead and put him in there, along with a few crickets to help him adjust, and he loved it he was jumping all over the place, and chasing his crickets, jumping across the cage into his water bowl. He was so excited it seemed. I also have a fogger in his cage and when its on now it sends the fog out of the cave, since he never really goes in there. I am planning on making a background for his cage, to put his plants in and make more hiding places. But anyways let me know what you think, I still need to pick up more of the dirt brick things, I didn't have enough to do what i wanted. But this should last him a little while.

[Louis Charles Bruckner]

Looks great!
I just have a few questions,
What are you using for heat.
I didn't see any kind of thermometer or hygrometer.


What I would recommend is a Zoo Med hygrotherm HT-10 controller.
and place the sensor in the middle on one side away from your heat source.

I do see that you do have a zoo med retie-fogger
Just make sure to use only distilled water in it.
and if you use the above mentioned controller the water will last a lot longer.
and cut down on the ware and tare on the fan.
And the placement of the fogger and output hose is perfect don't change it.

And you can find the Hygrotherm much cheaper on line like at amazon I found them as low as $40.00 each. (I bought 2)

[angel10252]

Oh I forgot to add that. Haha this was right before I put his thermometer and hygrometer back in his cage, I took them out so they wouldn't be in the way whie I was scrubbing the sides of the cage. Haha and he has a heating pad under his cage, and another one on the back left, I turn on the one on the back left during the day while he sleeps. And the other is on during the night when he is awake.

[Louis Charles Bruckner]

I am glad to hear that you do have gauges.
But I strongly recommend a few changes depending one what size heating pad is on the underside.

if it is the smallest heating pad available (8 to 10 watts) then I am not to worried but if it is larger than that I would
carefully remove it and place it on the opposite side of the one you currently have applied to the side.
If the bottom heater gets really hot and water contacts the glass it can shatter.
Also it can cook the roots of your plants.
Personally I would have kept them potted so when the time comes for a substrate change it will be easy.

I am glad to hear that you are tying to make a day and night temp change.

WTF like to have 78-80F during the day and 70 to 75F at night.
and I would shoot for at least 70-80%rh max above that your baby might have respiratory issues and the higher
humidity encourages mold ( not a good thing)

If you have some extra cash get a hygrotherm that will keep the night time and day time temps and humidities in check.

When I rebuild my exo terra for darts I plan on doing it this way.

First place a drainage tube in the middle of the bottom consisting of some
aquarium airline with a 1inch square cube of synthetic sponge (recommend using a new sponge that doesn't have any cleaning agents embedded well rinsed.)
Place a 2.5in layer of expanded clay balls. They hold moisture well and are light compared to gravel.
Then plan on where I want to place my plants and put down a layer of non metallic fine screen. and mark where I want the plant pots with a light colored marker.
Cut out the areas for the pots and use an empty pot to make a pocket of screen around the pot and leave a lip edge to hot glue to the hole in the screen covering the
bio-balls or expanded clay balls.
The screen will prevent the eco earth or coco fiber from falling down in between the bio balls and making a mess.
Add my plants and then add a 2in layer of eco earth.
then place the drift wood and my log of bio-luminescent mushrooms that I am growing. Last night I just saw the first signs that the mycelium is growing and glowing WOOT! as My friends across the pond would say I am chauffed to bits!

Also a $9.00 digital light timer set to a 12 hr day would also be a good thing to have.
and a small glass bowl pushed into the substrate for the crickets is a good way of feeding. that way you can keep track of how many
your baby is eating. and it cuts down on escapes and if they roam free and your frog doesn't eat them they can bite your baby
also you might want to get some vitamin power one with D3 and one with out. and dust your feeders every other day and alternate in between the D3 and non D3
powders.
An easy way to dust the feeders is to put some powder in a large ziplock bag and add the crickets and shake gently.
or use a small plastic tub with a lid the same way.

I feed a combo of crickets and dubia roaches and cut night crawlers. Avoid supperworms, meal worms and red worms.
wallmart has night crawlers and you can cut them from the pointy end and the worm will live and heal up.
The general rule of thumb is don't feed larger than the space in between the frogs eyes.

Glad to see the pictures and keep us informed.
there are a lot of good people here.
welcome to the forum.