I have about a million different tanks laying around my house so I chose a 30gal.
I used the format from BriansTropicals on how to build for this tank. And I aplologize for the bad photo quality :( used the camera on my phone.
It all began with the driftwood placement.
Then of course it moved on to the Great Stuff Expanding Foam, but I didn't have the time to take an inbetween picture. I placed coco-fiber on top of the foam and let it cook for the 5 hours I was at work.
Here it is after cooking and getting rid of the extra coco-fiber. (I used a LOT of the stuff, packed on at least 2-3 inches of coco-fiber)
I used pea-gravel since I had a ton of the stuff laying around-- my house is magical and had a lot of excess things I could use to build this bad-boy.
Used fiberglass window screening in-between the gravel and substrate. Substrate is a mix of coco-fiber and zillas jungle mix.
Shoved dry sphagnum moss into any cracks that were left behind with the foam. Planted some live moss on the background in hopes that it will grow and basically made a lawn on the bottom. Planted a fern on the left side, and 2 different specie of bromeliad on the right. Placed a couple of coco-huts one hidden behind the driftwood that I placed on the bottom to plant the bromeliad in and one in the corner in front of the fern.
Kinda did the ventilation ghetto style. Cut another piece of window screening for some stability and siliconed it to the edge of the tank and to the very edge of the glass hood, then cut an aquarium filter sock up and superglued it to the window screening.
Then as a finishing touch, placed one of my old reptile lights on top with an old UVB/UVA bulb.
And thats that. The brom that looks like its falling has since grown straight. I tried to get pictures of the frogglets when they came in but alas my camera phone just made them super blurry. Theres 4 of them in there and they are now about 6 months old All the plants are thriving and the frogs are surprisingly super active and don't hide everywhere.
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