Starting a 10g viv

Aussie_hippie_2

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So, I guess I'll be the first post; I'm starting a 10g vivarium with possibly 1 green tree frog and 1 firebelly toad. As yet I don't have any questions, but once I get knee deep in it I'll need a lot of help I imagine.

The plan is to have maybe one fifth of the tank water, with a home-made stream running through it. And lots of plants and branches for the GTF. I'll be doing live plants, with an old hood that has 15w on it, I don't know what plants I'll use yet, since Lowes dosen't have much selection this time of year. I want to keep it very natural looking.
 
Well, I just got into this sorta thing, and have had some bad luck. One thing I noticed is its hard to keep gravel higher at one end of the tank. Something you may try, is to use a submersable pump and hide it under some larger rocks in a pile to one side, then have the "stream" run down them. Then add the substrate. What do you plan to use? gravel?
 
These are the things I need to figure out. I have no idea what kind of substrate, though I was thinking putting somthing under the substrate so that I could have a lower part (for the water) and then having soil so my plants could grow. I was thinking about making the stream out of pond liner and covering it with java moss. I'm also considering that rock plan on the water side, if I did this I'd make the water a higher percentage of the tank.
 
you are going to need a way to keep the water in the stream, not going through the substrate... perhaps you could get some clear tubing, perhaps 3 inches wide or so, and cut it in half, and then have the out put of the filter discharge the water at the beginning of the stream.
a canister is probably for this tank because you need the intake and out put of the filter to be at totally different ends.

this would be a good choice for your size of tank- http://www.thatpetplace.com/pet/product/productInfo.web?picGroupKey=23234
 
i dont mean to discourage you, but thats a lot of things to put in a 10 gallon tank.

if you're up for it, i second cutting a piece of tubing in half to use as the stream.

unlike the previous posts, i dont think getting gravel to stay at one side of the tank is hard. you just need to use larger gravel.
 
when I had a half water, half land set up in a 55 gallon, I separated it by siliconing a piece of plexiglass with stone on it to look like a river slanting in. Worked beautifully. The plants in the land area were a little tough to maintain but all in all, people who visited my home loved it. Good luck, guys...
 
Dangerdoll said:
when I had a half water, half land set up in a 55 gallon, I separated it by siliconing a piece of plexiglass with stone on it to look like a river slanting in. Worked beautifully. The plants in the land area were a little tough to maintain but all in all, people who visited my home loved it. Good luck, guys...
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that what i was thinking in the first place, but it seemed that his tank might be a little to small for that.
 
I'm not going to do a stream anymore, too much work. So you think I should just do soil and no seperated water area?
 
Aussie_hippie_2 said:
I'm not going to do a stream anymore, too much work. So you think I should just do soil and no seperated water area?
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I reccomend just making a pile of big rocks on one side of your viv for the toads land space, and putting a bunch of criss-crossing branches throughout the top half for the green tree frog. I have kept both species before, if you have questions about their care you can PM me.
 
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