My toads and their home

[firebellied zach]

Very nice!! Water is so clean and nice plants. I could never spend the time making a glass divider.

[s6t6nic6l]

well done. nice touch with the pistia floating around. any chance of full frontal view

[Peakone]

Thx for the comments

well done. nice touch with the pistia floating around. any chance of full frontal view

When im done with the styrofoam and revamp the vivarium as i imagined, because im not satisfied with its current look

[Peakone]

My toads became very dark green. Is it possible to be some camouflage reaction since the rocks and the substrate are dark aswell ?

[bshmerlie]

My toads became very dark green. Is it possible to be some camouflage reaction since the rocks and the substrate are dark aswell ?

Yeah they do have a bad habit of doing that. The more light green plants you add the lighter they will be. I added white rocks as my bottom under the water and also as much green moss as I could to cover the floor. The little boulders I use for them to rest on I also switched from a grey color to an almost white one with speckles. I kept adding things to lighten it up and eventually they went back to the bright green color we all like.

[Peakone]

And what would you suggest, should i seed the plants in the dry side with soil or just to put the plants burying the pots in the wooden parts i use as substrate in the pictures above?

And if the 1st, should i use false bottom or something? I put keramzit as 1st layer (clay baked at 400+ degrees celsius) to absorb the humidity. What bothers me is the soil not to rotten.

[peeka]

I would go with the first option. That way it would be easier to treat or take care of the plants if for some reason they were not doing well.

Ally

[heyjude2200]

Yes, a couple of my fire bellies have changed color--one that likes to hide in a clay pot-- I buried on it on it's side, with about half below the substrate surface. My substrate is very dark & that frog has become very dark--I have a hard time finding him sometimes! And another of my frogs loves to sit on top of a fake 'cave' from the pet store. It has lime green "leaves" on the top and she has become lighter green & a more lime shade. She sits there so much I renamed her to Limestone.