First frog tank ever. Probably need help

[Colorblizzle]

Well $10 per gallon is hardware cost. And I don't run co2. This is also Not including any fish or plants lol. I have an eheim 2217 running on my 62g planted right now and it works great.

Overkill in filtration yeah I understand but still...in my 55g I run a total filtration of 1000gph (as the manufacturers would have you believe) but still at least 850. Which after rocks and everything is considered would still be a turnover rate of around 20x. But 90gph in 1g of water (90x) seems crazy to me but if you've done it and say it is just fine I'll trust it.

I've looked at the fluval nano I honk, has a built in spray bar comes of the top to the side right? Would you prefer that to a reptofilter? I also only use biomedia for te most part. A sponge as well but I consider that more bio than mechanical in my tanks as religious as I am with my water changes.

I don't want to use a heater in this tank but could I potential use the heating pad under the aquatic section? Or is that unnecessary and the pad would serve better use maybe under the cricket tank?

I have some leftover egg rate laying around here somewhere I'll put gat to good use. But what is his landscape fabric you speak of. I'm not familiar with it at all. Seen it in your mantella build but was confused by what exactly it is.

And when I said using silicone on the sides and back fort the background I meant to stick miss to directly to create a background. I'm not planning in using any spray foam. Although I do have drylok Laying around from my background build in my 55g...

And I always black out my tanks. I already have the back painted, just not the sides yet because my iance hates when I do hat. She wants more rehab one viewing angle lol

[deranged chipmunk]

the reptofilter is not bad. gives a nice waterfall action some frogs seem to like. it all depends on your design really. i prefer using pumps to move water, but i have used the reptofilter (well a whisper 10i, about $5 cheaper, same filter) in a 20L fbt tank i built for my kid. i got my fluval nano with an ebi kit my wife bought me for christmas one year when i was breeding shrimp, and have loved it from day one. the down side being is that it would be under the false bottom, so routine maintenance needs to be taken into account when designing the tank.

under no circumstances should you ever put a hot heating element under a tank with water in it. cool water, hot element could equal cracked tank and a mess on your floor.

landscaping fabric is what they use to keep sunlight from reaching the ground under mulch, rocks, ect. it is sometimes called weed blocker.

if you want to do something different and have multiple viewing angles, you could always build an island tank. built the tank so that it is perpendicular to the wall instead of running lengthwise, like a normal tank. then you will have 3 viewing angles to choose from. i have seen many dart frog tanks built that way.

[deranged chipmunk]

oh, and i gotta warn you, in case no one has yet, frogs, are addictive!! worse than aquatics! i kept all kinds of aquaria for over 30 years. fresh, marine, did planted tanks for a decade, and then i got into paludariums, then frogs, and i haven't kept a fish tank since!!LOL i don't know how it happens, we just become assimilated..lol