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Would those of you with Rhampholeon/Brookesia enclosures please post some pics, as well as provide some advice for drainage layers. I am getting ready to set up a tank, and am looking for ideas. Thanks in advance.

Hey, I used to use drainage but found it easier to just not soak the terrarium . I use Spagnum moss cut finely into peatmoss and wood mulch and mix them all together. I then layer the top with fig tree leaves, spiderplant leaves and most other tropical types, leaveing a few spots with no leaves (seems they like these areas for laying eggs). Brookesia are alot harder to take care of and alot harder to find for that matter. (go into burmation/hibernation for months on end.) Below is an old photo of my tank, been haveing some camera difficulties.

You can make out one female beding the stick in the fig tree.

Brookesia Decaryi

Rhampholeon tank. Just another example, as far as plants go I seem to always end up usein 1 type of fern, a fig tree (sometimes plant stores misname bonzaied ones an I get em at a deal) and 1 or 2 types of vines. Also I have had ALOT more sucess keeping these guys in bigger terrariums (33 ) then I ever have with 10 gallons.

That's a nice looking brook. I have a line on a 1.2 group of decaryi. Hope in pans out.

-roo

Roo - are you in Ithaca? -Oz

Ahh hahaha! Yeah, it's me Oz. You need to come over and check out my setups.

-roo (Tom)

Tom - I just dropped you an email through the KS system - I lost your contact info. Get in touch with me so I can stop by and see your setups. - Oz

I use three layers. Hydroton, charcoal, ground coconut bark (in that order) – all separated by plastic window screening. The coconut fiver is covered with cork, leaves, moss, ground leaves, etc.

-roo

second pic.

-roo

My setup. I currently have 1.1 b. decaryi. It is a 29 gal long. Gravel on bottom, undergravel filter plates sperating the coconut fibre and the gravel. About 4" of coco fibre. I have 1 pothos as well as a small umbrella plant (hawaiian schefflera. Ont op of the soil in one area I have some moss, and covering the majority of the ground I have dead ficus leaves (I knew that plant would come in handy, I'm kind of a brown thumb). Also I have a maze of hand picked twigs and sticks (of which I collected from a imple field during the winter) and used twist ties to secure them in place.

I found all setups are great. However, I've a question. How can you breed your brookesia? It's difficult to find their eggs in the cage even they already laid.