Fire Belly Toad Setup Suggestions/Help

[Hellsrage]

@cody: wahaha finally you've decided upon something

Yup. haha

I started with dirt and some plants like an african violet and pothos. I put a long 1.5 gallon food storage container for thier pool. It was good, but I could tell the guys wanted more water to swim in. I took out all the dirt and plants. I put back in the rocks I had picked up on a beach, thendevided the pothos and put the plants at both ends of the tank and use the rocks to hold the plants down. The frogs like the leaves. They lay on them in the water.

At a store I had picked up a styrofoam plate that is used for meat packing for sale with plastic wrap. It cost nothing so I am not going to buy other rocks for a land feature yet. The guys love it. Its black so they dont see the flies unless they are dusted so I will pick up a white one and switch them depending on what Im feeding.
Ill get a pic of my setup.

Nice! I'm not too sure how I'm going to go about my land section. If I can find shale/slate rock, I may have some areas with layers like Gary, I like that look a lot!


Does anyone know if the TetraFauna ReptoFilter is any good?

[maxQ]

YES, Ive had the medium for over a year and It works great ! In fact I got some plain common pond moss from a local pond store, stuck it to the waterfall and the moss rooted and now the moss has almost covered the entire waterfall , it looks awesome.

[Hellsrage]

YES, Ive had the medium for over a year and It works great ! In fact I got some plain common pond moss from a local pond store, stuck it to the waterfall and the moss rooted and now the moss has almost covered the entire waterfall , it looks awesome.

Awesome, I think I'll skip the already made waterfall, buy the filter by itself and build my own waterfall.

[Hellsrage]

What type of foam is safe to use for something like this? Since some of it might be submerged what's the best way of sealing it so that is it safe for the inhabitants?

[Hellsrage]

Anyone?

[maxQ]

Anyone?

I have used plain ole Styrofoam 3 x 2 x1 sheets from Home Depot, but everything in my present enclosures are real rock.

[Hellsrage]

I have used plain ole Styrofoam 3 x 2 x1 sheets from Home Depot, but everything in my present enclosures are real rock.

Hmm. I've seen and used some of the larger sheets of foam at Home Depot, but those are for insulation and as such they would probably leak something toxic into the water. I'm not sure of an easy way to seal the foam effectively either.

Might be time to start looking into simpler ideas.