Frog room overhaul

[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.

[LilyPad]

You inspire me to get my stuff organized, Paul. My frog necessities are spread all over the house!

[DigitalPunk]

UGh Amy that would drive me insane lol. I am so annoyed that I have to go upstairs to refill my gallon water jugs every few days that I actually spent time today tracing waterlines to find one I can cut into and splice off for a sink in the basement lol. I say it si to be more efficient but the truth is I am far to lazy to carry stuff around the house lol. I will have to add the sink to my wish list. Right now I need some Plant trays and domes. Then I want to get another shelf and upgrade the lighting in the basement as a whole. I either want some LED plant lights in front of each rack or I am going to get more florescent fixtures to put around the room.

Far to dim down there lol.

[LilyPad]

My house is small, but still, it's all everywhere. Vitamins in the kitchen (where they'll stay) dechlorinator in the bathroom, supplies I don't use regularly in the attic, spray bottle goes between the living room in my bedroom (one just broke about a week ago)....I need it all in a designated place. It's just annoying. I bought some new shelves so I will have to make room.

[DigitalPunk]

My house is small, but still, it's all everywhere. Vitamins in the kitchen (where they'll stay) dechlorinator in the bathroom, supplies I don't use regularly in the attic, spray bottle goes between the living room in my bedroom (one just broke about a week ago)....I need it all in a designated place. It's just annoying. I bought some new shelves so I will have to make room.

I turned my back on an automated misting system early on in my tank keeping, but lately I am considering purchasing a mist king and getting all my tanks on it. Between the tanks and the plants it takes me 30mins to mist everything and nearly a gallon of water... Though i suppose will be trading refilling the misting bottle for refilling the water reservoir for the pump lol.

I started out keeping the supplements in the kitchen, but have found no proof that refrigerating the supplements does anything to extend the life or maintain freshness. So I have switched to adding some of the powder to spice shakers I bought for $1.00 from Bed bath and beyond. I pretend that not opening the main containers but once every 2 weeks somehow keeps them fresher, but not that it matters. I will still be throwing half to 3/4 the jar away every 4 - 5 months because I am forced to buy more than I could possibly use in 6 months. /end rant lol

[LilyPad]

Yes, I hate throwing away all of those supplements too. With 6 tree frogs, I do not use more than 1/4 ever.

[jarteta97]

I turned my back on an automated misting system early on in my tank keeping, but lately I am considering purchasing a mist king and getting all my tanks on it. Between the tanks and the plants it takes me 30mins to mist everything and nearly a gallon of water... Though i suppose will be trading refilling the misting bottle for refilling the water reservoir for the pump lol.

How much distilled water do you buy at a time?? The biggest I've found at the store are 2.5 gallons, and I go through a gallon in a week with just one tank! If only I could distill water myself . . . *sigh*

[DigitalPunk]

As much as I liked the spring tail drawer system (super easy to feed them all) one of them got some kind of fly in it really bad that eventually killed all the springtails. Then the flies started showing up in the other drawers so I went out and bought new containers for them from the Dollar Tree.



Bought 6 and took them home. Washed them and set all 6 up to get ready for the great Springtail migration



One drawer at a time I flooded with water and then used a spoon to rescue as many springs as possible and stock the new containers. Being careful to leave all the fly larva behind. Look how many springs there are!!! that is just one drawer.... this will take a while lol



In the picture below you can see all the left over springs I had after I stocked the 6 new cultures with 1000s of springs and added a bunch to each of my tanks.



I will be shipping all of these leftovers off to a couple of my good friends!

[canadian frog]

thanks paul "way of life" that's a great way to look at it, ill have to explain that to the wife, but I think she has crossed over to the frog side lol.