Name: enclosure.jpg Views: 1984 Size: 83.1 KBThis is my enclosure for my pixie frog. It's a 75 gallon tank with 1/2 it being water and 1/2 land. It's eight inches deep.(This is an older picture, but the substrate was all the way up to the partition) Recently, I had someone saying that the deep substrate could be harmful to my frog ("Your substrate was much too deep. Also the moisture from the substrate will slowing accumulate in the bottom of the substrate and it will become stagnant. Stagnant water will poison the frog and can cause redleg a very common amphibian disease caused by the bacteria Aneramonas hydrophylia which is usually fatal. Substrate only needs to be deep enough for the frog to cover itself. "). I have never heard of this, and my frog loves to burrow. Is this true? I'm currently in the process of remodeling my tank (caulking went wrong), so my frog is in a smaller container for now, but if this is true, I need to rethink my design. I like having the eight inches of water on the one side (I've an amazing filter too!) because I can put fish like guppies (no feeders or goldfish!) so it's more pleasing to the eye, but my frog also has something to eat (and yes, he does love to swim as well).
So, if eight inches is too much for the frog, would putting sand on the very bottom, and then adding about 5 1/2-6 inches of large rocks, and then adding about two inches of substrate work, or would it still be a problem? My frog is still fairly tiny right now, but as he gets bigger I could always take out some of the rocks and give him more substrate?
Again, I've never heard of "too much substrate" being a problem, but I'd like to get this cleared up for my frogger


Also, here's a picture of said frog. Yes, he is still quite the baby. Name: froggery.jpg Views: 1606 Size: 80.3 KB I just got him last Wednesday, he was starved and malnourished, but is doing so much better already! He ate six (small) crickets last night! I've yet to name him, so any suggestions would be nice