Hey; this is my first try at a false bottom vivarium. I keep/breed honduran milksnakes and simple is better/cleaner (and easier to clean), but a year ago I bought a pair of D.auratus to strive from the simple waterbowl,hider, newspaper enclosures. This is my first attemp at a semi-elaborate or false bottom enclosure. I am using PVC spacers, egg crate/lighting panel*, a PVC pipe in back (behind coco mat) to siphon water out, coconut fiber mat(can buy it by the yard, used in hanging plant baskets, coconut substrate (brick in water thing I was recommended), sphagnum moss from new zealand (black jungle), a dead butterfly bush stump, some fern spores, live green moss, and a number of plants (with a beautiful creeping ficus soon to be added). I also have a coconut hider (black jungle) dried magnolia leaves, large banana-plant-like leaves soon to be added (drying) and two dead leaves I clipped from the larges back plant that dried nicely. I put a buncha springtails in that are breeding nicely. I also have a drip system that I place over the cage every once in a while. I'm sure there are other things in there im forgeting but this post is long enough. I've made it pretty safe with no known little places to cram into, I'm still workin on it, it's been growing/sitting for about 2 months.
What do you think? Any questions or constructive criticism is very welcome. Think my frogs will enjoy it?
-Sean
. I doubt I'll have too much of a problem though; the tank is loaded with springtails, I feed my frogs termites in a dish, and it seems to me that the D. heide seem to just sit around on the ground and wipe the powder (dendro-care) off of their bodies. I'll post how it works out. Thanks,
