I have a problem with my frogs tank (he's a Kassina senegalensis, African Running frog). He is pretty much 100% terrestrial, I hardly ever see him use the water bowl, only when I've scared him by moving stuff around in his home.

Anyway, to keep the humidity up I thought I'd have a boggy end and a drier end. I have a siliconed in divider roughly halfway to keep the water one end. Every couple of days I use the water from his water dish to water the plants, keep the moss moist and top up the wet end. I have mostly just top soil in the tank, along with some bits of wood, stone, slate, etc for hides.

So today I did the usual water change, water the plants etc. and noticed a really boggy, rotting vegetation kind of smell. I have some earthworms in the tank to try to keep the soil healthy, but guess they can't keep up! Perhaps the wet end is too wet? I thought keeping the tank this way would make it more naturalistic and lessen the need for spraying/misting.

So..........do you think it would be easier to just give in and use the 'bed-a-beast' type of substrate and just mist him every day? I wanted to try to get a part aquatic part terrestrial thing going on, perhaps with a small filter, but I'm thinking now that is probably wasted on my little terrestrial guy!

What do you think?