Vivarium Build - Customizing a 12x12x18 Exo for Dart Frogs
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
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This is a great idea for smaller enclosures! The silicone takes up way less room than the foam! Perfect way to make a custom background in the smaller ones and save space!
Great video man! I used expanding foam for some of my bioactive enclosures, but I feel the foam takes up too much space. I like your method of adhering the background directly to the glass!👍
Yeah the foam can take up quite a bit of room, especially in the smaller enclosures... There's another method using Gorilla Glue that I've been wanting to try out.... I think it was one the Clint's Reptiles vivarium builds that I saw it
nice job buddy. tank looks good!
Thanks!
Tank looks awesome.
I'm about a day new to your channel and I absolutely love it I just got interested in dart frogs I haven't gotten any yet because I wanted to do some research on them first... I can't thank you enough for your awesome videos it's definitely helped me make up my mind an come up with some ideas for my vavarium...!!!
I love this! Came out awesome, congrats!
never seen anyone slapping the silicone + substrate mix directly on the glass^^ easy and simple. did you sand down the wood for the ledges to maximize surface area or is it just fine without?
I do use great stuff sometimes, but I just wanted to do something quick and simple for this one, and with the smaller enclosures it leaves more room for the plants and frogs. No sanding on the wood, I find silicone adheres to cork bark very well.
The only problem with not doing some sort of foam background plants aren’t really able to root into silicone.... but as far as a simple quick background, this method works great!
@@TroyGoldberg I was planning back and forth how I want to do my background. But now I'm pretty much settled on doing corkbark for structure and hygrolon for the rest directly on the glass. I hope it will end up good looking^^ the only downside I see with this is that I can't really have some sort of wood reach deep into the viv from the wall. to make sure the 'air space' won't be too empty I'm gonna use real jungle vines and some chollo wood. it's either gonna look great or totally suck at this point I can't tell anymore^^
SilkMilkJilk that will work just be carefully to
Fill all cracks of cork bark... frogs love getting behind the cork... they’re notorious for It
@@TroyGoldberg I will thanks^^ but as with the background, the choice of inhabitants went back and forth aswell haha^^ right now I'm almost certain I stick with the initial plan to get a trio of mourning geckos and add a pair of phyllobates bicolor. I love the orange back with green legs. I was really hesitant with those due to the loud call but I think it should be alright within the glass. and they only call in the morning and evening, right? am I able to influence that with the light schedule?
Nice, I like the caulking idea for the sides of the glass instead of having to buy more cork or using the foam I’m going to do the same👍 and I’m going to look at Home Depot, should be the same as home hardware? I’m in Canada but in Quebec...I did buy I think it was called pond caulking..it didn’t work in fact it never dried properly and was seeping had to pull the whole build apart ...lesson learned I need aquarium caulking.
The stuff that I get from Home Hardware is a specific Home Hardware brand so I think it's only available there, but I think the GE 100% silicone will work too. Just avoid anything that says mold or mildew resistant, as those contain chemicals that are harmful to frogs.
I noticed you put a tube coming out of the where the hydro ball layer is, how often do you have to change the water for this layer? Or is that tube just to add water to the layer when it runs low? Also, nice build I like how nice it looks by just adding silicone to the glass with the substrate!
wish i had the money to do this amazing
Where did u get glass to fit the top of the tank?
his local glass shop and gets them cut to size , its what i do for my tops and glass pieces
I notice you have a lot of vivarium that were aquariums, do you have any issues with venting and if not how do you manage air flow?
Some of them have little to no airflow. Never had any problems. The plants provide oxygen and the top gets opened every day or two for feeding which introduces fresh air as well.
How many tree frogs could u put in there
That really depends on what species you're talking about it, as there are many different kinds of tree frogs.
Why do I want to watch Donnie darko now
would you recommend an 8x8x12 for 1 or two white or green tree frogs ?
No, I think that would be too small
Can we house atleast 2 dart frogs for the 12 x 12 x 18? I have two 12 x 12 x 18 hoping to have a pair in them.
I would say a 12x12x18 is the bare minimum for a pair of thumbnails (Ranitomeya) any other species' I would go bigger.
Hopefully you answer, but what kind of dart frogs can live in a 12x12x18?
It's an ok size for a pair of Ranitomeya
End song???
Why the glass top?
The regular mesh lid doesn't hold the humidity good enough
I used shrink plastic window insulation stuff over the screen on mine
What lights do you use?
Mostly daylight spectrum (5000-6500K) CFL's or LED's
Plant list?
Do you sell dartfrogs?
Yes I do! I can ship within Canada
@@NorthernFrogger So not New York? I live in Upstate New York.
@@LJsReef I technically could ship to you, but the paperwork and expense is usually not worth it... Dart frogs are CITES listed, so to get them across the border requires special permits and inspections by Fish & Wildlife. Last I checked it was going to cost about $1000+ to ship frogs to the US.
I guess I'l just need to get used to it. Almost every person that I have seen do a video seem to take up the first fifteen min of the video with telling you what is going to be in the video.
Did every last one of them take the "how to present a video 101" in college ? What a waste of time.
Sorry my video didn't meet your expectations... I'm always looking for ways to improve so I appreciate the feedback! :)
@@NorthernFrogger The tutorial part is just fine. It's the entirely redundant introduction that waste time. By the time you do the intro, I'm bored.
Trust me I can make up my own list of what you said in the video AFTER I watch the video. Post on like Facebook are doing this also now. They talk for ten min BEFORE they let you see the video. I usually turn those off at the beginning. Waste my time/you loose my attention.
I did like the tutorial part. I'm building a 60 G tank(think 3 ft long 75 G tank) 18x36x 21.5 tall. But I don't want to destroy the tank by placing silicon on the glass.
So I haven't reached a conclusion yet. I'm on Social Security so I can't make one build after another.
@@NorthernFrogger don’t apologize this person is rude!! Tons of people enjoy your videos! If this person doesn’t like it they can go watch someone else! You do a great job! Intros explaining what the video is about is an integral piece. Don’t even respond to negativity.
@@Photron52 if you don’t like his videos then simply don’t watch! Don’t come on his video insulting him. That’s just rude! If you’re bored then go somewhere else!
@@BigShrimpin416 Check this out dumb a$$. You can't tell if you like it until you watch it. Then again you might go back and take an English coures. It was a general statement about these tutorials which you obviously didn't get. What part of English are you having trouble with ? You want rude...skanks should mind their own business.