So I built a 55 gallon vertical conversion into a Grandfather Clock and it looks great. a lot of learning in my first build. that thread is here.
http://www.frogforum.net/vivarium-te...m-project.html


But now I have 6 RETF instead of just 3, the girlfriend found out about different morphs and wants them all. I don't want to crowd them so I'm going bigger. With that, once I finish my bigger build and move the frogs, my 55 gallon vertical conversion will be for sale.
I will be building the same Grandfather clock Idea, just incorporating lessons learned and increasing from 55 gallons to about 90 gallons.

The back wall will be 48 inches tall by 26 inches wide and the interior will be 17 inches deep. The front will have a 10 in piece of solid glass below the door so I could have up to 10 inches of water/substrate. My girlfriend and I had a lot of trouble with false bottoms, coco bottoms, any substrate we tried, so we just go with flooded aquarium bottom with a bunch of fake plants so that it isnt too deep. frogs can sit on floating leaves to soak and bamboo growing up out of the water. I'm thinking of sticking with the aquarium style bottom and putting enough floating vegetation real or fake to cover the surface and incorporating ghost shrimp or a sucker fish to help keep things clean. An Aquarium with cleaner fish that has a frog terrarium above.

what I want to figure out now, is how to decorate it. i will have at least one "tree trunk" going the height of it to hide hoses and power going down. but should I leave the back glass clear or foam it and try to grow moss on it? I want to stick kind of rain forest like and I'll have a rain system to this will be my all in one home for my frogs and rain chamber. (eggs would be removed and placed in a separate hatching tank if they ever appear)

I'm asking for suggestions and inspiration on how to construct the interior of it. and how to make it more 3 dimensional, my current one is kinda flat to the back wall, not much for the frogs to explore.

drawings, pictures, descriptions of cool ideas you've wanted to try... I am an amateur machinist and carpenter so I can build just about anything you guys dream up and I think is awesome with metals, wood, fiberglass or foam.

Thanks, Tyler