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This is a picture of my anoles terrarium, this is was actually two 10 gallon hex tanks that I removed a pane from each and joined them to make a 20 gallon.

Would love to know if anyone else has done something like this before, it worked for me, hasn't leaked or fallen apart yet and the anoles and tree frogs seem to love it. There is a water fall in the back right corner also.

thanks for looking.

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Chantel a.k.a. sillygirl
"I came, I saw, I adopted"

2.4.0 green anoles
2.2.0 green tree frogs
0.0.3 D. tinctorius (Cobalt froglets)
0.0.1 Anerythristic 'B' (Charcoal)corn snake
2.4 Domestic house cats
1.0 Rottweiler
1.0 Husband (who loves all my critters too)
AND I play foster care for 3 homeless kittens & their mom for a few weeks for the shelter.
(and not even going to count what I raise as food for all these guys)

Here is my other 20 gallon terrarium that I set up a few months ago, 1.1 anoles 1.1 green tree frogs, complete with waterfall, live plants and moss.

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Chantel a.k.a. sillygirl
"I came, I saw, I adopted"

2.4.0 green anoles
2.2.0 green tree frogs
0.0.3 D. tinctorius (Cobalt froglets)
0.0.1 Anerythristic 'B' (Charcoal)corn snake
2.4 Domestic house cats
1.0 Rottweiler
1.0 Husband (who loves all my critters too)
AND I play foster care for 3 homeless kittens & their mom for a few weeks for the shelter.
(and not even going to count what I raise as food for all these guys)

>>Here is my other 20 gallon terrarium that I set up a few months ago, 1.1 anoles 1.1 green tree frogs, complete with waterfall, live plants and moss.
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>>Chantel a.k.a. sillygirl
>>"I came, I saw, I adopted"
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>>2.4.0 green anoles
>>2.2.0 green tree frogs
>>0.0.3 D. tinctorius (Cobalt froglets)
>>0.0.1 Anerythristic 'B' (Charcoal)corn snake
>>2.4 Domestic house cats
>>1.0 Rottweiler
>>1.0 Husband (who loves all my critters too)
>>AND I play foster care for 3 homeless kittens & their mom for a few weeks for the shelter.
>>and not even going to count what I raise as food for all these guys)
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Owner of 1.2 Leopard Geckos, 3.0 Fire Belly Toads, 1.1 Bahaman Anoles, 1.0 Japanese Fire Belly Newt
and 0.0.1 Turtle

I wouldn't keep the anoles and frogs together. Two adult Green anoles need about a 20-30-gallon alone, and two Green treefrogs (American) need a 20-gallon. Depending on the size of the anoles, the treefrogs may attempt to eat them... however, adult anoles, including Greens, are quite territorial and will probably stress the frogs. They share arboreal habitats (so there will probably be tension) and the Green treefrogs will still spend sometime of the mornings, evenings, and even days awake... especially when there's food. They're going to share parasites and need twice the cleaning. Green treefrogs need their water changed daily, or at least every other day. That said, it might work in a large enclosure, over 200-gallons, probably.. but not in a 20-gallon by any means!

Other than that, the tanks are beautiful and I love what you did with the two ten-gallon hexes It's nice to see such lushly decorated tanks for anoles, especially Greens.
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Got hips like Cinderella / Must be having a good shame / Talking sweet about nothing / Cookie I think you're Tame

I've heard the debate on mixing GTF's and Anoles before, going both ways. I've had this set up for over a year now (I'm only new to this forum) and have never lost an animal in there. I'm extreamly diligent about water changes and such, ask my husband, he always complains he wishes he was a frog.

What you can't see in there is the springtails, red worms and millipeds working at the bottom cleaning up a lot of the mess and decaying foliage plus me cleaning the glass and the few false plants and branches really good once a week.

I can appreciate your point of view, and if I were just starting to do this probably would not have mixed them, but as I said before, I've not lost an animal the entire time I've had these two terrariums set up.
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Chantel a.k.a. sillygirl
"I came, I saw, I adopted"

2.4.0 green anoles
2.2.0 green tree frogs
0.0.3 D. tinctorius (Cobalt froglets)
0.0.1 Anerythristic 'B' (Charcoal)corn snake
2.4 Domestic house cats
1.0 Rottweiler
1.0 Husband (who loves all my critters too)
AND I play foster care for 3 homeless kittens & their mom for a few weeks for the shelter.
(and not even going to count what I raise as food for all these guys)

Well, you've ruled out many of the problems by making sure the cage is kept clean always, but that doesn't change the animals stressing eachother out and some of the other problems.

I thought you had them together for less than a few months because you said that's when you set-up that tank, but even the fact that you haven't lost any in a year doesn't really mean much. There's little doubt that the animals will live longer, healthier, and happier if separated, especially the frogs. However, it's not that huge of a deal and they do share environments and such, so, they do live under very similar conditions. They're all hardy animals, relatively speaking for herps, but they should, at the very least, have a larger enclosure then. I mean, they'll live a few years like that, but it defeats the point of having an animal in captivity.

These animals are going to have parasites and if they get too stressed out, which won't necessarily happen, their immune system will be suppressed and not fight the parasites off as they would normally. I mean, this is generally speaking, of course, but it's usually better to play it safe, although it's up to you.
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Got hips like Cinderella / Must be having a good shame / Talking sweet about nothing / Cookie I think you're Tame

You're right I have only had that particular set up for only a few months (about 4 to be exact), I'm always breaking them down every few months making bigger and more eleborate setups. The animals I've had much longer (they started in 2 10 gallons, the more I learned the bigger the enclosures got). So chances are, as they will eventually end up in a larger set up (i've got my eye on a 150 gallon tank), the reason I moved them all from my 29 was because one of my juvi "females" grew up to be a male and Stumpy is king in his relm and I knew I had to seperate them so into two 20's they went. Now the 29 holds Popcorn my anery corn snake and the other 20L houses my 3 cobalts.

So who knows, my setups seem to change about twice a year. They are more experiments on creating a mini eco system not 100% self sustaining (water has to be changed and food has to be added) but the plants seem to all thrive and the anoles and tree frogs have all seemed to as well.
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Chantel a.k.a. sillygirl
"I came, I saw, I adopted"

2.4.0 green anoles
2.2.0 green tree frogs
0.0.3 D. tinctorius (Cobalt froglets)
0.0.1 Anerythristic 'B' (Charcoal)corn snake
2.4 Domestic house cats
1.0 Rottweiler
1.0 Husband (who loves all my critters too)
AND I play foster care for 3 homeless kittens & their mom for a few weeks for the shelter.
(and not even going to count what I raise as food for all these guys)

Well, while most, including me, still caution against it... you're still doing everything right, with the exception of the small tank, in keeping everything and everyone under control. So, if you're going to do it, it's nice to hear you take such good care of the tanks and plan to move them into a larger enclosure as soon as possible. It's certainly not impossible--they do live together in the wild.

Keep us updated, please, and share any tips you may come across in the meantime. You may also want to consider getting fecals done regularly on the animals just to make sure parasites stay in check, just because both green anoles and most Eastern US native treefrogs are easily stressed. The problem with fecals, though, is that some parasites won't be "seen" even after just 10 minutes, but most good herp vets should know that and will medicate when they think it's right, anyway.

Anyhow, good luck and keep us posted
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Got hips like Cinderella / Must be having a good shame / Talking sweet about nothing / Cookie I think you're Tame

Ive heard of 10 or 20 gallons stacked, but never hex's. Good job,

M.N
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Where did you find a 10 gal hex tank? And how on earth did you remove the glass pane? The tank looks really nice!
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Danielle
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1.0 Chinese water dragon, 0.3 leos, 1.0 adopted iguana, 0.0.2 beardies, 2.0 green anoles, 1.0 blue anole and 2.2 bettas ~My Pets~

The hex tanks were purchased at a local reptile shop here in Denver Colorado.

As far as joining them, I wouldn't have if one of the panes didn't crack on one of them. My husband came up with the idea of joining them (actually his idea was to join a bunch of them and create a sort of honeycomb structure). To remove the panes of glass all I did was cut through the silicone caulk with a razor (and cut up my hands in the process) and then use a dremmel tool to slice through the top and bottom plastic rims and trim them back so the panes would fit as close together as possible. Then I just siliconed the two pieces together and let it set over night, tested it for leaks (none thank god) and the rest is history. The seam where the two were joined is a little thicker then I would have liked (and the plastic doesn't match in color) but it worked and it was a first for me too so can't complain too much.
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Chantel a.k.a. sillygirl
"I came, I saw, I adopted"

2.4.0 green anoles
2.2.0 green tree frogs
0.0.3 D. tinctorius (Cobalt froglets)
0.0.1 Anerythristic 'B' (Charcoal)corn snake
2.4 Domestic house cats
1.0 Rottweiler
1.0 Husband (who loves all my critters too)
AND I play foster care for 3 homeless kittens & their mom for a few weeks for the shelter.
(and not even going to count what I raise as food for all these guys)

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