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[snakerock]

Hi all me agen just posting to ask could eney one who has experiance with dart frogs help me, ok down to the question i am planing to redo my dart frog tank which i tried to do last year and failed i still have the tank and such with the back ground but i might be planing on takeing it out and starting from the beging and i hope to have a false bottom tank maybe get an external filer and link my fogger up to the tank and have a small water fall in it simaler to the one at i will post sum pics later at about 8 pm when i get home but untill then could eney one post links or tell me how to make a good false bottom and what to use for the background ( i might get sum live plants but i think i need a special lind of light and such oh well if sumone could post a list of things i will need like Certan UV lights heat bulbs and other thing that would be the best ever ^^ eney way thanks for your help i will see you in 5 and a half hours biggrin.gif

[mcfluffin]

Don't bother with a false bottom. Go for hydroleca substrate....keeps up high humidity! As for background, peat panels are good adhesived on to the glass....with some climbing figs and bromeliads, pothos etc.

Paul will no doubt give you some ideas on this thread too
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[snakerock]

OK here are sum pics of the old tank the back ground has been made using builder extending foam with brown silicon over the top and coco bedding put over the top it needs a little work doing and such but if you look at the bottom left of the tank it has a green tube going from there to the top right whitch is my water fall and works well but i need to do a space under the sub strate to put the pump or a form of Under sub strate i can place the pump with eg Large gravel or sumthink like that ok here are the pics

[Atrox08]

I personally would go with live plants as a background setting a good dartfrog website is www.dartfrog.co.uk. it has loads of different plants on there for sale and plant lighting.

[kroakykaren]

This is the site you want for plants and excellent after service
http://www.urbanbromeliad.co.uk/
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[MJ]

Here's the basics mate:

2 inches of LECA ( a lot easier than a false bottom unless you can find lighting eggcrate)

place a sheet of weed block fabric on this, then add a couple inches of peat: eco earth and fine orchid bark in a 1:1:1 ratio.


Unless you want to drill the base of the tank and create a sump system for the waterfall it will reduce the vertical space a little to much for the frogs and plants to be happy.

Lighting:

a nice T5 setup would do your plants wonderfully you can probably pick up a arcadia over tank laminar off ebay for under £40.

planting for a viv like that I would recmomend the following easy to grow plants:

Ground cover:

Pothos (harder to kill than grow lol)
Wandering jew
strawberry begonia
ludisa discolor (jewel orchid)
peperomia spp
java moss
small guzmania cultivars

background:

creeping fig (ficus pumilia)
dishchidia (many varieties available that do well in a vivarium)
java moss
neoregelia bromeliads


I would remove the reindeer moss as this will just tend to get mucky in a high humidity dart frog vivarium.

Seed the vivarium with springtails and tropical woodlice as well they help to move the ecosystem along and provide a nice snack for the frogs.
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Paul

For all your Tropical plant and Naturalistic Vivarium needs please enjoy Urban Bromeliad