Well, here we go...100 gallons. Walk me through it?!

[DigitalPunk]

Can you explain what you mean? I'm a bit confused.

She is referring to a "False bottom" it is covered in the vivarium 101 thread. It is used if you are going to have a water feature and is not needed if you don't. You could technically still use it, but the drainage layer is better if you wont have a water feature so the micro fauna of the tank can crawl down to the water to breed.

[BCollie]

If you carve the pink foam you can get some pretty cool looking backgrounds. The spray foam is a common one to use, but is not the only way to do it


Hot wire foam factory has some Styrofoam coat that they sale. It covers the foam and gives it a sort of rock like texture and can be tinted with paint. It isn't cheap, but it is good . Or you can simply tint the titebond 3 glue and cover it. There is no rule to having to stick peat moss or cocofiber to it for texture. Backgrounds in tanks are largely for the humans that look at them and less about the frogs sure frogs will use them, but it is not required. We just have to make sure what we are doing is safe for them

I will probably end up sticking peat moss to it just for aesthetics, I'll probably put it in the cracks between the "rocks".

She is referring to a "False bottom" it is covered in the vivarium 101 thread. It is used if you are going to have a water feature and is not needed if you don't. You could technically still use it, but the drainage layer is better if you wont have a water feature so the micro fauna of the tank can crawl down to the water to breed.

Gotcha! Yeah, I decided against a water feature for this tank.