Frog room overhaul

[DigitalPunk]

Lynn stop holding back on us Lets see your tadpole setup :P

[DigitalPunk]

The drawers for springtail cultures are working great. I moved all but one culture into them and will be getting 3 more drawers and supplies to bump the cultures up to 9. Thinking of doing the same thing for the isopods, but I will test it with a few of them first to see if they climb out of it before I dump the whole culture into it.

[DigitalPunk]

Tackled an part of the basement that had no light and we used to store garage sale items in. I am working on turning this little corner into a plant area. I all use it to keep plants and plant clippings alive and grown them out some before adding them to a vivarium.

We call this the "Scary side of the basement or our Silence of the Lambs section



I installed a 48" dual fluorescent light fixture with 2 daylight 6500k bulbs in it over the future plant area.



Cleaned out all the junk and spiderwebs.



Strung a wire up to hand Bromeliads and other air plants from.




More to come for the plant area. Want to get some trays with domes and replace the wood table with some plastic shelves.

[ColleenT]

looks good. i wish i had some extra space in my house.

[Heatheranne]

Hi all! Great post!

As we all know, I do not currently have a frog room. My racks, tanks, and supplies are in my bedroom.

I have two black metal racks from walmart. One 5'x18"x as tall as you like and a 3'x18"as tall as you like. Shelves are adjustable.

I have a metal utility rack for the ff cultures. The springtail and isopod cultures are on a high top shelf of the dart frog rack.

Darts on one rack. Retf, Melvina gold dust day gecko on the top of the other rack and pacs on lower rack.

Extra supplies in Rubbermaid bins on bottom shelves of both racks. I mounted under-cabinet light fixtures on the undersides of the top shelves for lighting of each shelf. Each holds an 18" 6500k cfl. I need more though. I also have random dome lights with the spiral cfl full spectrum bulbs for different plants.

My Cuban tree frog is in the living room in his 18x18x24" Exo terra.

I do still hand mist with a pump sprayer.

The crickets... Yuck! Are in a ten gallon tank which I empty and clean out every 2 weeks. I am liking the rotating tank idea and will very likely switch to that. Only my reds and Cuban eat crickets. Since my Cuban never has left overs (little piggy!), I can put the retf crickets back in if not eaten. My reds are bowl fed.

Oh, and our Atelopus trio are still in QT on their own shelf I pulled into our room, temporarily.

My future plans are to make part of our old indoor garage area our new frog room. This is a long standing goal which will take months. It is currently used as storage.

After the crazy events of our life settle down, I will begin the frog room. This might not be until after the holidays.

I will also move my bazillion plants into one end of the frog room. We will likely run grow lights across that whole ceiling area on that side. I'm not looking forward to the electric bill, lol!

Lots of work to come!

[jarteta97]

Sheesh, a frog room is faaaar future for me. But then again, I am only 16, lol . I keep my tanks on my shelving unit in my room, I store most of my supplies in a long shallow storage bin under my bed (it's a mess), and keep my supplements, dechlorinator, and water in my closet.

I love your "silent of the lambs" section, Paul, lol. For some reason, the hanging plants make it look like the crafting table of some creepy alchemist, lol. It still amazes me how the darkest, dankiest (no offense) places can be used to grow plants.

Also, Paul, what's that giant tillandsia you have hung up? I didn't think there were any that big.

And Lynn, I believe that you should be sponsored by exo terra, zoo med, and every gardening center in a twenty mile radius, lol. How do you go on vacation?! Also, how long did it take you to build all that?? Serious jealousy vibes headed your way right now

[DigitalPunk]

Josh,

My Wife bought me that while she was on vacation in Florida I have another one a bit bigger than that but it is in a tank at the moment.


No offense taken. The basement is a dark danky place for sure. It has changed a lot in the past several months. Hoping it keeps looking less dark and Danky and more like a frog room .

And yes Lynn has an excellent setup for sure!

[canadian frog]

wow thought I had an addiction, glad to see im not the only one, awesome frog rooms cant wait to finish my basement, so I can get more tanks in the house, currently have five tanks set up and I'm in the beginning stages of another one, not to mention the empty ones I have stored in the basement, the amount of great ideas I have gotten and the help I have received from frog forum is simply amazing love this forum.

[DigitalPunk]

I now refer to it as a way of life and not an addiction. Now if I can just get my family to make the transition to the new name I will feel less bad about it all lol.

[deranged chipmunk]

Dig that set up. Thanks for sharing
Paul!


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