grow- out enclosure ideas

[flybyferns]

Sharing some ideas
Grow- Out enclosures for tadpoles and froglets at different stages

Tadpole water
-I don't make tadpole tea-It gets funky
-I use single glass containers for each tadpole ( regular cheap drinking glasses or spice container size )
-line them up in plastic shoe bins/ with a lid
- distilled water with a dime size pc of indian almond leaf and some java moss
-water changes are 50% - 2 times weekly ( I do not clean the interior of the glass)
-when containers need to be cleaned - bleach clean -then put them through the dishwasher / without soap /rinse in de-chlorinated water



- tadpoles in glass jars/ in shoe bins

After the tads are oow:
I use dampened paper towel instead of sphagnum moss in small 2-1/2 gall aquariums with glass lids


small temp for some leucomelas ( these little froglets are oow about 5 days )


R imitator --- just about ready to come oow
(the dates are when they were removed form the parental enclosure)
I tip the glass jars( ! 2 flat sides ) as they get closer to coming out of water



Grow-out for my Pumilio ( black Jeans)
they go directly her form the parental tank at about 2 months old ( 6 in here)
-the is a 2nd little set up to move the males out when they start calling




10 gallon- This will be for a leucomelas grow-out (above -5 froglets are still in a smaller tank on paper towel )



R imitators - go here when they are off paper towel ( 5 little foglets in here for now )
-they will be needing some elbow room... very soon
-a 2nd 2-1/2 gallon is ready to go



2 - identical - Nano builds:
Got a great price on these this past weekend:
Exo Nano 'Tall'
This is a very small version of how I build all my enclosures
( minus drilling for drainage just below the gravel layer)
No false bottom , very little background/ very heavily planted / w lots of 'breaks'

Layers - bottom up
- pea size gravel
- 3/4 " poly quilt batting ( any fabric store )purchased by the yard
-poly screening - roll / home desperate
-ABG
-and all the trimmings
( pretty little begonia cutting heather gave me , and pilea rufino osorio from Paul @ 'Vivariums in the Mist' )




the poly bating disappears after it's wet and has the weight of soil on it


screen will be replaced w/ glass


folius moss mix



gotta close up these tubing holes for the peewees ( including the adult imis)
-- they can fit through ---->


LOTS if springtails




little begonia cutting




additional information ( part #'s and drilling information ) ---- added 11/2/2014 by flybyferns
http://www.frogforum.net/vivarium-te...-question.html