Glass lid vs. Screen lid

[hydromaestro]

So I know that glass is by far better at keeping in humidity than a screen top. But, my question is if I have a fogger and mist system in a thirty gallon tank with a screen top, will it be humid enough for a pacman frog? I plan on putting In a water feature and live plants, I could even foil wrap half the screen lid to help with the humidity, but If you guys think the screen top will absolutely not work id rather just get a glass lid. Sorry for the long post just wondering if someone could point me in the right direction

[Lija]

You need screen top and cover part of it with plastic wrap or tin foil. full glass top will give you too high humidity for a pac.
But 30 gal long is too big for a pac,especially if you are getting a baby.
Water feature won't work. Or live plants unless they are in pots.

keep in mind you will be changing water every day and substrate every month, they dig and burrow.

[Mentat]

What Lija said ! Pacman frogs can get stressed out in large enclosures; specially the babies.

[hydromaestro]

Awesome! thank you guys for the feed back I really appreciate it. It is a baby pacman but I don't plan on finishing the tank until the begging of next year, so in the meantime I have him in a 5 gallon that he is very comfortable in. The water feature I wanted to do would be very small and wouldn't be deeper and about a 1/2". I know pacs cant swim well so It was mainly going to be for aesthetics. Is this still ok or can I not have any running water in the tank regardless of size or depth

[Lija]

Well... 5 gal might be too big for a baby too depending on a decor

water feature... In 1/2" of water? How exactly do you imagine that? and with amount of waste they produce... And with daily water changes? I only imagine nightmare here lol

Honestly... If you want naturalistic tank you better off with dart or tree frogs. Pacs need minimalistic set up.

[hydromaestro]

Word that's always a option too I was planning on doing dart frogs at some point lol the 5 gallon is working ok for now I think he is already almost three inches long and it does have some plants and things in there he has been in there for over a month now but hey maybe this will be a good excuse to get a couple dart frogs. Thanks again for all your advice you prevented a possible disaster lol good thing I asked

[Lija]

I doubt it'd be a disaster, you, biting your nails over wasting bunch of $ and time and redoing the whole thing,more likely lol
you are welcome!

anyhow! Yeah! Go for darts too! 30 empty tank and you itching to do naturalistic set up, can't get more excuse then that! It's not like you can do it, but you absolutely have to do it! Lol

3" Pacman frog is not a baby, it's juvenile or stunted adult, you will be fine with 5g.

[hydromaestro]

Awesome yea ive been waiting for a good excuse to start I did this one for my leopard gecko
ever since then ive had the crazy itch to do a vivarium/paludarium. I know you must know about that itch haha

[Lija]

Yeah.... Lots of people like that here lol
beautiful tank by the way!