Vivarium Help
As some of you may have read, I am rearing a collection of frogs from eggs I found in my garden in a rapidly shrinking mud puddle. Up until now they have been thriving in a full 20 gallon tank, but some are now morphing. I've set about converting my tank into a Vivarium, and want some advice and thoughts about my progress so far. I've gathered objects from the area in which I discovered the eggs: oak branches, dried leaves and so on as well as some small sprouts of local plants from wet ground: clover and soft grasses. Also some quartz stones from a nearby stream For the objects that were dead, I rinsed and brushed them with very hot and very cold water in a bid to destroy bacteria and buggies without chemical residue. I also striped the branches of bark before beginning to clean them and checked for the slightest boreholes. I routinely use branches fallen from the same trees as perches for the small parrots I own, and they have never shown ill effects after the branches have been treated in this manner.
The bottom of the tank is sill about an inch deep in water, with gravel. The gravel is purposely uneven to cause dry areas and pools, and then covered over in oak leaves. There is also a hide cave, and I have scattered some grass seeds in there to sprout (the kind found in bird seed, not the chemical mess you'd seed your garden with. ) the tadpoles are now in a four or five gallon hexagon tank within the Vivarium, where the can leave as they finish growing legs.
ive been reading about bromeliads and rainforest plants, but I don't think i want to go that route. It's not the natural habitat for these frogs, which is my back yard.... I'd prefer some more indigenous alternatives. To the current set up in need to add some clinging plants to the walls, strong enough to support their weight and yet leafy. Unless you can think of anything, I will use a plastic plant if that's acceptable. I will include a picture below.... But is there anything glaringly missing? Or something I did horribly wrong?
for some reason my iPad put the photo in upside down and I don't know how to prevent it from doing that. I'll take a new one when I have my computer.
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