75 Gallon PA Woods Vivarium (Toads & Skinks)

[Larry Wardog]

More Pictures of Ace the female Toad and Pharaoh the male Skink

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[Larry Wardog]

Some updates:
So the idea of mimicking shark week will be attempted instead of picking a specific species per month I will be dedicating a week in May for "Amphibian Week" this will be for the American Toads and possibly a new inhabitant pair sharing this week with them. July will be "Reptile Week" focused on a week of videos for the Skinks. I'll have a big announcement soon with the future for possible expansion and new inhabitants. The next video will be starring Ace and Pharaoh as the Apex predators being they will be the largest inside the vivarium for the respected species. Another video will release on Pious, the female Skink, and the introduction of the offspring Ruby. This video will feature how the other inhabitants coexist being the smaller one of their species and also highlight Rubies experience into the enclosure. The video of Ace and Pharaoh may be out around early February and it will be a little bit for the other video with Pious and Ruby. Please let me know if you would like and follow a Facebook page for this enclosure! More updates coming soon! Like and subscribe to the YouTube channel for this tank and see the inhabitants!

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[Cliygh and Mia 2]

Sounds great!

[9darlingcalvi]

Sounds awesome, I have a question though. So I have this 26 bowfront with a small pond in the front and it’s pretty saturated ground. I’m thinking about getting some chorus frogs for the tank and planting it with native plants. How many chorus frog could live in the tank?


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[Larry Wardog]

Sounds awesome, I have a question though. So I have this 26 bowfront with a small pond in the front and it’s pretty saturated ground. I’m thinking about getting some chorus frogs for the tank and planting it with native plants. How many chorus frog could live in the tank?


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Very interesting because I would think that 4 to start with would be good and wait and see how much space they use. It's better to have more land being occupied. How tall is your tank? Certain iris plants grow in water so you can use them. Duckweed works Pachysandra likes those conditions too. I don't think the Millipede idea is good because they would drown in that setup. I agree that a bioactive setup is best so yes have insect colonies that can establish for the frogs to hunt which works best with a lot of space which means so many frogs for so much space. I will have to attempt Banded and European Pet store Crickets in my setup because they make a nice noise and aren't opportunistic on the animals like you hear because the crickets eat Moss and dead plant matter. The Earwig and Stone Centipede were interesting to me but they can be destructive on plants and Earwigs can climb glass! Woodlice and Earthworms of any kind are good to have an overabundance of and establish inside the enclosure as well. Your setup is very nice to look at. You would get some views for that on YouTube. It's a nice setup. If you have questions how I do things or ideas post on here and I'll make sure to get back to you!
Good luck

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[Larry Wardog]

Ace and Pharaoh

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[Larry Wardog]

More interaction between Ace and Pharaoh

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[Larry Wardog]

Ace and Pious hunting

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[9darlingcalvi]

Okay, thanks for the info, I actually found a couple millipedes on the dry side today and some worms, springtails are all in the water and haven’t seen the isos m and will get some more powered blues, porcellio spinocornus and t rathkii for isopods. For crickets I’m thinking just getting some ground crickets, they are a small native species that sound like a baby bird. The water will 100% have some algae and duckweed, and what ever hitch hikes on with that. I think I’ll just get a group of 20-25 eggs and see which ones survive and then move some to my tupperware 10 gallon tank


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[9darlingcalvi]

I forget to get a pic of the tank as of now, not much has changed just increased water level, raised the land and put in a nice piece of wood and for plants I’ll just use marsh marigolds and grass


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[Larry Wardog]

If you haven't seen these videos they are from the 75 Gallon across the 3 generations of the tank. Check them out!

http://www.reptileforums.co.uk/forum...php?p=13086698

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[Larry Wardog]

Fun to see Ace and Pharaoh out and active today. The video will be coming in February

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[9darlingcalvi]

So cool, do you know if a nepenthes pitcher would work with chorus frogs? It would ruin the native feel, but they just look so cool


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[Larry Wardog]

So cool, do you know if a nepenthes pitcher would work with chorus frogs? It would ruin the native feel, but they just look so cool


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https://youtu.be/6bexB8kAfXE

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[Larry Wardog]

Ace comes out to greet me and to see if I have some food for her.

Pharaoh wakes up and explores his territory.

Ruby basking getting ready to join Ace and Pharaoh among the others.

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[Larry Wardog]

Just to get you excited for the video with Ace and Pharaoh here are some pictures that just happened of a documented interaction between them. It is common they cross paths but it's hard to get on camera. I'm waiting to get my new camera to release this video because I can't show you how active the skink is. He freezes everytime I come towards the tank. When I get the camera I'll leave it rolling and leave so I can get some video of him potentially feeding on video and just exploring his territory.

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[Larry Wardog]

Upgrading the PA Woods

I am pleased to announce that I will be upgrading the PA Woods Vivarium from a 75 Gallon to a 125 Gallon Vivarium! I will be posting a lot of videos on the YouTube channel as the project progresses which should hopefully be finished in the summer like mid summer. I have two or three surprises but I'll reveal those later. The outline for the new Vivarium


125 Gallon PA Woods Vivarium

2 American Toads (Ace & Pious)
3 Five Lined Skinks (Pharaoh, Amsi, Ruby)
2 Autumn Brilliance Ferns
3 Spleenwort Ferns
20 Pachysandra
8 English Ivy
Iris
Day Lilly
Duckweed
Japanese Pictum Fern
Pine Tree (Unknown Species)
Wild Daisy
Moss
Woodlice
Earthworms
House Crickets





Devices
T5 Odyssey Light Fixture 6'/2.5' Marquis
Mistking Misting System
2 Pumps for stream
3 Night Lights
UTH
Hygrometer
10 Gallon Backup Tank
55 Gallon Backup Tank
Critter Keeper

Please let me know what you all think about the upgrade and let me know if you have ideas for the build or plants or anything in general and don't forget to checkout the latest video of these animals in the current enclosure on this video below


https://youtu.be/IdxfbLiIB4U

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[Larry Wardog]

Another interaction between Pharaoh and Ace. The good news is they have been documented and are going to be in the video coming out soon!

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[Larry Wardog]

New Facebook Page for the PA Woods!
https://www.facebook.com/PAWoodsVivariums/

The YouTube Channel name has changed as well
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4n...r50aiDHpDE_CFg

So I did manage to make a Facebook page for this enclosure. I will be keeping the content mainly on this and the reptile forums as the two forums are my main audience. So with both forums, a YouTube Channel, and a Facebook Page the PA Woods better be interesting and exciting or else it was a waste. so I have many new announcements. Obviously the upgrade from 75 to 125 Gallon is a big deal but that's not the only one. I will be introducing a new inhabitant to this new enclosure as well as a new breeder insect in hopes to have this specific insect survive in the enclosure with the pet store crickets woodlice worms and the others. I do not wish to reveal the new inhabitant and new insect because I wish to keep the anticipation going. I hope you will continue to follow this build because I'm starting completely new basically to build this new tank. Not only will it be the biggest enclosure but also a lot of money to create. I am truly excited to build it. It's been years since I had to start from nothing to build the woods. I will be making new threads on the forums as well so the information and care is fresh and specific to what I am doing at the time. I may join other forums as well to get some excitement and more people interested.


The exotics will still be around. The *75 Gallon Tropical Forest Paludarium will still have a part in the forum and on Facebook and YouTube, but it will be a less featured part with the main point of those two outlets is to market the PA Woods. The exotics will not just be the Tropical Forest anymore. My girlfriends Chinchilla Chi Chi will also partner with the Tropical Forest Paludarium to make up the exotics part as well as the new feeder insect time from time.

Lastly I have one of the most exciting announcements. There will no longer be one PA Woods enclosure. In order for this to generate an audience the main tank the 125 will have to be the most well done and the exotics are nice to throw in, but now there will be another enclosure to accompany the 125 Gallon PA Woods Vivarium. This will not have any of the animals from any generation of the PA Woods. This new enclosure will be created from local plants and will replicate the PA Woods as well and will compliment the plants and animals of the main enclosure. Together these two will display the beauty of the plants and animals that live in PA. This is supposed to encourage you to want to create something from your unique environment wherever you are from just to encourage people to support their locals instead of all the exotics we see. Together these two enclosures hopefully will encourage you to think about the cool amphibian and reptiles around you.

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[Larry Wardog]

More pictures of Pious Ace and Ruby today! Check it out on the Facebook Page in the link below!

https://www.facebook.com/PAWoodsVivariums/

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