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I am working on setting up a terrarium for Red Eye Tree Frogs and could use some help....Anyone have any experience? I am in the planning stages and am hoping to keep it very simple..but want to incorporate a misting system (checking out mistking) any suggestions?
 
JFroggy said:
I am working on setting up a terrarium for Red Eye Tree Frogs and could use some help....Anyone have any experience? I am in the planning stages and am hoping to keep it very simple..but want to incorporate a misting system (checking out mistking) any suggestions?
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depends on how many...

odds are it needs to be water proof because of high humidity and able to contain water because they need water being that they are frogs...

so figure out how many and then I would start with an aquarium.
 
I have the aquarium.. it is a 30gal bow front. And I am looking at housing 2 or 3 RETF's what I need help with is what is the best way to construct the terrarium. Some sites say false bottom with a submersible filter (too much construction required for me) the construction I am partial to is one with a misting system... but how do you construct it so that the substrate does not stay soaked? I was also thinking it would be neat to have a pond in the construction somewhere but again it seems too much for me at least...LOL Oh and what are the best plants etc...
 
JFroggy said:
I have the aquarium.. it is a 30gal bow front. And I am looking at housing 2 or 3 RETF's what I need help with is what is the best way to construct the terrarium. Some sites say false bottom with a submersible filter (too much construction required for me) the construction I am partial to is one with a misting system... but how do you construct it so that the substrate does not stay soaked? I was also thinking it would be neat to have a pond in the construction somewhere but again it seems too much for me at least...LOL Oh and what are the best plants etc...
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easy false bottom is made with plexiglass


box off a vertical box or tube to expose the water to the frog and put some holes in the box tube to allow the water in it to circulate with the water under the false floor. Heat plus water = humidity

Actual sprayer could be done many ways...

you could adapt an actual spray setup like you have suggested or use a low psi power head and create a water wall/fall into your water box. Just by adding "protrusions" to the fall/wall, would cause the water to spray out of the fall/wall.


All depends on how elaborate you want to get, your budget and how much hassle you wish to ensure at cleaning time.

I mean you could use a basic sprayer setup and add an external power head in a bucket with its power set on a timer. You just play with spray vs evaporation rate to make sure you never flood the tank.
 
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