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[BG]

Jason your master piece is out of this world as it grows it only gets better the colors are fine how many dart frogs can you put in there and what kind of frogs ?

[VicSkimmr]

Thanks!

The frogs are still up in the air. My initial plan was to have a group of R. vanzolinii, but reports of them being shy has kind of put me off of choosing them for this tank. Now the frontrunners are either R. ventrimaculatus "Blackwater" or R. imitator "Baja Huallaga," though I also have soft spot for R. flavovittata and R. benedicta. This is too hard of a choice to make

Does anyone know if Understory is working to bring any new frogs into the hobby soon? I'd love to put a group of R. defleri in it

[Voltage]

Very nice tank Jason. Nice and simple. You will absolutely be able to find your frogs in there from the simplicity I never knew Epi web looked like that. I always thought it looks like that weird packaging material stuff for computers When are you getting frogs? If you already said I missed it

[VicSkimmr]

I'm probably about a month out from getting frogs. I need to make sure all the plants will do fine in their current positions first. The epiweb reminds me a lot of tree fern fiber. One moss starts growing on it you'd never know the difference.

I did some rearranging last night and I think I'm happy with placement. All but the Neo. Walking Tall should be getting plenty of light to keep their colors and the placements look more natural in relation to the wood, at least to me.


More plant shots






I'm loving this 50mm lens, BTW. It's my first fast lens and I'm totally in love.

[nevertoomany]

By far my favorite tank ever Jason! I am about to try to build a 60 gal tall tank similar to yours and I have a few questions of you dont mind... 1. Where did you get your Epiweb from? And how thick is that stuff? Everywhere I have looked is out of the country. 2. What are you doing for water filtration? Lastly, what type of moss are you planning on getting to grow up the background?

Looking forward to seeing more of this one!

[VicSkimmr]

I apologize for not getting back to you sooner. Epiweb (ecoweb in the USA) can only be obtained from this vendor as far as I know
https://www.firstrays.com/cgi/cart/c...exact_match=on

Also, some stuff has happened with this tank.

1. The bottom pane of glass apparently cracked somewhere, which forced us to convert this to a standard vivarium as I could never trust it to hold water now even if I did find the crack.

2. Some goodies arrived yesterday
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I'll take some shots that are in better focus once they're all settled in and I can use the tripod

[Badger]

That sucks, It looked so great too. Awesome frogs though! Tank came out awesome!

[VicSkimmr]

Yeah but what can you do? That's what I get for attempting to build it myself. Now at least people will stop sending me hate mail (exaggeration) about the unnecessary risk I'm putting my frogs at by having deep water in the tank.

[Benedicta]

I know this is kinda late
But what kinda light do you use ?
It spreads out very nicely

I was tryin to get something else besides T5 and tot of using LEDs...

[Adam R]

i also had a question jason. how do you keep your thumbnails fed in such a large tank? im worried over mine feeding(still in quarantine) in only a 55gallon..

[purpleturtle89]

That would be like saying how do they survive in the wild ? Just add food and if the tank starts to get over run with fruit flies back off just trail and error but as soon as you over feed you will be over run

[Adam R]

That would be like saying how do they survive in the wild ? Just add food and if the tank starts to get over run with fruit flies back off just trail and error but as soon as you over feed you will be over run

ok i can understand that. my real concern is dusting. the dusting compound breaks down shortly after the flies are dusted. if the frogs arnt consuming the flies soon after, they may not be getting the proper nutrients

[purpleturtle89]

ok i can understand that. my real concern is dusting. the dusting compound breaks down shortly after the flies are dusted. if the frogs arnt consuming the flies soon after, they may not be getting the proper nutrients

If you get the feeding right, and use a good quality supplement they will generally eat the bulk of the food straight away then anything else left are just scraps that they are just picking off between feeds! so hopefully if done right they will have got all the nutrients etc from the bulk of the flies they've eaten hope this helps

[Adam R]

If you get the feeding right, and use a good quality supplement they will generally eat the bulk of the food straight away then anything else left are just scraps that they are just picking off between feeds! so hopefully if done right they will have got all the nutrients etc from the bulk of the flies they've eaten hope this helps

yes it does, thank you very much. sry jason for the threadjack