not sure how tonight is going to look, but last night they roused between 7 and 8, ate a ton of crickets, took a little snooze, and were awake when i went to bed at 10p. woke up this morning at 6:45a and they were already fast asleep for the day.

contrasting with the day before, when they didn't wake till 1a and 2a respectively, and were still up running around at 7:30a.

the tank is definitely not too wet (made that mistake last time); humidity is consistently between 75 and 85 on one gauge and 60 and 80 on the other. i'm going to assume the truth is somewhere in the middle, which i think we can all live with. this is misting a couple of times a day, morning and night, but the humidity holds regardless. most of the time i end up misting because the air simply feels stale and still, and have to leave the door cracked for a bit to avoid the humidity jumping to 95%+.

until i figure out this humidity thing, i am very reluctant to switch to live plants, since they'll obviously ramp it up even higher.

tonight, my biggest concern is heat. i haven't figured out a way to keep the tank at a consistent temperature without hovering over it, and although right now it's not a disaster because it's not cold here yet, it will be in a few weeks, so i need a resolution pretty quickly, considering i'm out of the house for 12 hours a day. 40 watt bulbs STILL heat it too fast, and the mat i bought for the side of the tank didn't work at all - not sure if it was a lemon or if that's just the way they are. (exo terra heatwave)

Quote Originally Posted by acpart View Post
RETF are the only frogs I have (I'm a gecko breeder) and I got older juveniles, but what I've learned so far is that they do seem to be inconsistent in how much they're awake vs. asleep. I also think I've heard that an environment that's too wet can be a problem. I have at least 10 planted habitats (mostly for geckos, with the one frog enclosure) and depend heavily on pothos. It grows quickly to fill the enclosure and a is very hardy. If you get a pothos plant from the nursery and then, once it's grown new shoots in your living room, take cuttings from the new growth, that may work well. I've got pothos in all my enclosures from a single plant that I got from my mother's house 13 years ago.

Aliza