Gray tree frog (Hyla versicolor) terrarium

[elly]

If you use a hardwood, rotting shouldn't be much of an issue. There may be a little.

Silicone does indeed need to be fully cured! The fumes are bad for frogs.

[Mr Leopard]

Thanks. I wasn't sure if it still emits fumes after its dry to the touch.

I'm using hardwood, but I like to keep things I like for the longest possible time. I want to the terrarium to be ready as soon as possible though. But, since you say it shouldn't be much of an issue, I'll do it without and I'll see how long these pieces last.

If you have any advice about choosing the wood, here's the thread I started about the pieces I brought home: http://www.frogforum.net/showthread.php?t=35358

[Mr Leopard]

Here's a link to some photos of my, as yet unnamed, female gray tree frog. Does she look healthy to you? Is she fat? On at least one of those pictures, she looks like she might be...she also has a hard time holding on to the terrarium's sides.

http://s736.photobucket.com/user/sim...tml?sort=3&o=0

I've also included a few pictures of the terrarium as it now is.

The plan is to add branches, but I'm waiting for confirmation that the ones I have are ok, so for the moment I only put the bark less pieces in. (I went with someone else's assumption that if it's been sitting on the forest floor long enough for the bark to peel off/rot completely off, it's probably been there long enough for any chemicals to leach out.)

The substrate is a half/half mix of ExoTerra coconut fibre and natural top soil.

The smaller of the wood pieces is a temporary replacement for another one on which I used aquarium grade silicone to seal some holes and cracks (because it would be hard to clean mold out of there) and to glue pieces of fake moss.

I used a bit of fake moss on the ground, but if that means I can't feed the frog in its terrarium, or if it makes cleaning harder, I might get rid of it.

P.S. Do you guys have any idea how old she might be? She's not quite a the maximum size for this species, but close.