New to the hobby

[pepper]

I know isn't the coolest thing? Its perfect for the FB toads. Its got the built in filter it looks easy to clean. If I hadnt dropped a small fortune on my darts and their new vivarium at the last show I would have gotten it then. But soon because the toads deserve it.

i was eyeing that viquarium as well. this is our first frog project and the tetrafauna setup seems to make things easy to start.

Thoughts on substrate with that setup? all the established ones i have seen seem to use the gravel. I would think that Hydroton clay pellets would be better than gravel, but i have ZERO experience with these environments....

[bshmerlie]

I am going to get one as soon as I have time to order one. On the land side I will fill it with the leca (clay balls) up to the water level and then a screen mesh and then the soil for my plants. Right now I have all water for my firebellies and then a turtle dock on each side for land. See pictures in my album. And although it is easy to clean the crickets do drown quite easily. I think the Viquarium will be just as easy to clean but keep the crickets on one side so they don't drown so easily. I will also probably make a wall (GS background) around the three sides to make it look more tropical. I will probably decorate the water fall part itself with moss or plants to make it look more natural.

[pepper]

what soil would you use for this? i am assuming there is a special soil. Also are people using Coir fiber?

Do you think there is any truth to the Viquarium being a fully sustaining environment? They seem to promote the fact that the substrate acts as a healthy filter of sorts as the whole unit cycles through land and water and back.
Are all of these vivariums full sustaining environs?

[ArizonaFrogGuy]

I sooo want this. I've almost got the wife talked into it too. I look forward to having life plants and moss in a new set up cuz right now everything I have is fake. Its functional just not the greatest setup and I want the greatest.