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[MantidBro]

heres the set up for my soon to be gotten red eye!



I did a test run and realized i needed to use a hotter lamp to reach the right temperature. Temperature is now 76F, and humidity is 75F.

[DigitalPunk]

Hay Mantid!

Looks good, what size of tank is that? Reds want more height than they go horizontal space. It is hard to tell from the pic... Looks like a 20H?

One thing I wanted to point out in case you ended up with issues. Using a bulb to heat the tank will dry the air out really quickly. You will end up fighting with it more often than not. Switching to an LED light and a Ceramic Heat Emitter will be the easiest to help maintain the proper temp and humidity without cooking all that sweet sweet moisture out of the air

[Mentat]

Recommend get digital gauges (Walmart has at good $) or at least a glass aquarium floating thermometer ($2 at same place). Those analog gages have huge error swings .

[MantidBro]

Hay Mantid!

Looks good, what size of tank is that? Reds want more height than they go horizontal space. It is hard to tell from the pic... Looks like a 20H?

One thing I wanted to point out in case you ended up with issues. Using a bulb to heat the tank will dry the air out really quickly. You will end up fighting with it more often than not. Switching to an LED light and a Ceramic Heat Emitter will be the easiest to help maintain the proper temp and humidity without cooking all that sweet sweet moisture out of the air

Yeah that heat lamp was making the humidity go down. I replaced it with yet another lamp. Last different type. That one kept the humidity good. I added a heating pad in there too. Temperature is 75. Humidity is like 90 at the moment. Letting some air in to let it go down. I think a lot of the humidity is coming from the heating pad. I should use the heating pad for night time and the lamp for day.

It's a big cage, 1 foot wide, 2 feet tall, 3 feet long. It's all I got at the moment. Hmm I'm considering resting the cage so it's 3 feet tall instead of long. I think I could make that work. I don't know, I'm going to see how the frog does first. I'm getting him/her as a baby so this will be quite a lot of space for now. I might update as he/she gets bigger.

[MantidBro]

Recommend get digital gauges (Walmart has at good $) or at least a glass aquarium floating thermometer ($2 at same place). Those analog gages have huge error swings .

They do?? What do you mean? Like it'll randomly go from like 40 - 80? It seems pretty accurate, i dont know

[LilyPad]

He means they can be + or - many degrees off of what the tank actually is. I would get a few branches in there too, they will like that.

[DigitalPunk]

And the humidity in the air will mess with them and they will start reading WAY off.

You have a heating pad in the tank" or on the outside of the tank?

[MantidBro]

He means they can be + or - many degrees off of what the tank actually is. I would get a few branches in there too, they will like that.

Aaaw man are you serious! Well there goes $13. This is the quarantine set up i dont wanna add branches just yet.

[MantidBro]

And the humidity in the air will mess with them and they will start reading WAY off.

You have a heating pad in the tank" or on the outside of the tank?

That frkkin sucks

Outside of course

[MantidBro]

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[MantidBro]

Recommend get digital gauges (Walmart has at good $) or at least a glass aquarium floating thermometer ($2 at same place). Those analog gages have huge error swings .

Which brand would you recommend? Which one are you using?

[MantidBro]

He means they can be + or - many degrees off of what the tank actually is. I would get a few branches in there too, they will like that.

Which brand would you reccomend? which one are you using?

[DigitalPunk]

Please don't reply multiple times to yourself.

Sadly there is no GREAT digital ones either. They are better than analog by a large margin, but are still inaccurate. Exo Terra Maxes a brand, but it isn't without it's faults.

[LilyPad]

I have 2 on each of my tanks, a nat geo brand and an exo terra (a little overkill.) I prefer the Nat geo.

[MantidBro]

Please don't reply multiple times to yourself.

Sadly there is no GREAT digital ones either. They are better than analog by a large margin, but are still inaccurate. Exo Terra Maxes a brand, but it isn't without it's faults.

I wasnt replying to myself i was asking each of you which brand of digital temperature/humidity gauges you use, i figured itd be better to ask two people rather than just one. Sorry.

Okay thanks!

[MantidBro]

I have 2 on each of my tanks, a nat geo brand and an exo terra (a little overkill.) I prefer the Nat geo.

two in each so you can be sure its accurate? thank you!

Patience is a virtue! its worth it to go through some issues so long as in the end everything will be perfect for my frog. :-P

[DigitalPunk]

Absolutely. Better to have it all right before you add a frog into it for sure!

[MantidBro]

Absolutely. Better to have it all right before you add a frog into it for sure!

Gonna go try an get a refund for the petco gauges i got. And buy a nat geo digital one.

[jarteta97]

I just bought a Nat Geo one. It seems to be working pretty well, but I only use it to make myself feel better I really just look at the conditions of the plants and use that to help me determine whether it's humid enough or not. I feel like my plant based margin would be +- 10% and Bill's is probably +-0.5% lol.

[MantidBro]

I just bought a Nat Geo one. It seems to be working pretty well, but I only use it to make myself feel better I really just look at the conditions of the plants and use that to help me determine whether it's humid enough or not. I feel like my plant based margin would be +- 10% and Bill's is probably +-0.5% lol.

Lol. Well thats cool that youre good with plants. I think i would be too. But honestly ive never tried it. If i were to add a live plant to the terrarium i want to make sure i know how to treat plants first. I ended up being able to get a refund for the analog types. I bought a digital temperature/humidity gauge on amazon. A lot of the ones i looked at didnt have great reviews or ratings. I got the one with the best reviews and rating. 69 people rated it five stars, the second lowest was 29 votes for 4 stars so i think itll be pretty good. The reviews were good too. I only saw one complaint and it said it was off by 2 degress or something, not a big deal. Ill have that by wednesday. I think ill order the frog wednesday too then because i want to be sure everythings set up and working properly before i have the frog. If i order wednesday ill get him the next day, thursday. I think ill get pinheads wednesday so i can gut load them 24 hours before feeding. If he will even want to eat the first day moving in. Im going to give him a while to settle in before i try. let him in his cage during the day, leave him alone, and try feeding him at night.