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shopaholic
at Tue Feb 24 23:08:14 2004 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by shopaholic ]
Hi: I feel exactly the same way. I've worked with Dart frog tanks longer then Cham set ups and I think I'm going to modify a method we Dart Froggers use with our tanks-the False bottom. Mr. Pollak has something like it, and he kindly showed me a picture and confirmed that my thoughts of the modification could work for Chams too. It involves raising the bottom by the use of a grated material. Dart Froggers use eggcrate(a ceiling light diffusing material). I think I'll put the cage, pots, everything over a section of eggcrate. I'll put window screen on top of the egg crate to keep the critters in. Water will drip though the eggcrate bottom that is sitting over another bin at the bottom(a tub, a sweater box-something water tight. I will drill a hole into the bin and attach a bulkhead or just a tube with silicone to finally drain into a bucket underneath the shelf that the set up is on. Sounds more involved but I have many dart frog tanks like this and I'll never go back to the regular bottom way again. The bucket will have to be dumped too but not nearly as often as the tub inside the cage. We like to keep that floor clean and dry and it seems more tedious to do if its everyday. If you have automated water delivery, you will want something easily draining too. When I expand after my learning curve has come to an acceptable point, I will build a final shelving with the grate as the shelf and a lower shelf with pans that could also have a similar draining methods.
Take care,
Maggie
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- Drainage... - trinacliff, Tue Feb 24 15:58:07 2004
- RE: Drainage... - jacksonsrule, Tue Feb 24 16:48:26 2004
- RE: Drainage... - lele, Tue Feb 24 18:02:37 2004
 RE: Drainage... - shopaholic, Tue Feb 24 23:08:14 2004
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