"Natural" Forest Floor Terrarium "Testing" Build!

[Tiger Rye]

Terrarium looks good. Love the jewel orchid!

 

[JonRich]

Terrarium looks good. Love the jewel orchid!

Thanks you. I really like it too. I'm looking into getting another 2-3 jeweled orchids to fill in where the birdsnest fern died that was in the back left side.

I also went with a dual bulb 20" FL fixture with two 6500k grow bulbs and a single ReptiGlo coiled UVB in a dome towards the front. Light reaches about 70%of the floor.

 

[JonRich]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5QTEAKRbhg


Well I have been tossing this idea around for some time. I feel like I have everything verrrry stable in the sense of humidity and temps in the lower "leaf litter" region of the enclosure to support 1-2 micro frogs.


I initially though about adding a dartfrog to help eat some of the flightless fruit flies that would stay on the bottom in and amongst the leaf litter (the L.williamsi geckos that are housed in this enclosure rarely venture to the bottom, they usually stay in the upper 1/3rd of the ExoTerra. ).


Well anyway, I'd like to get some thoughts from the Dendor guys about this.


Tank temps (at the bottom, you will notice in the video I have gauges and probes at lower position to monitor the bottom).
Temps during the day stay in the low to mid 70's and about 70-90% humidity. At night it drops into the mid 60s with stable 80% humidity .




The top ( where the geckos frequent has a 90* basking area in the top-front right corner). The other 3 top corners has ambient temps in the upper 70's -lower 80's.


Thanks in advance for any comments and suggestions .

 

[JonRich]

I've been step-lighting my other cages and recently did the same for this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFUEwMNftnQ&feature=plcp

 

[thedestroyers]

Looks great! I really like this concept. Do you think this kind of drainage is also suited to be in a chameleon cage?

I've red that you blow air in the bottom of the cage, can I ask how u got this working? And with what kind of intention do you do this?

Great example for what I want as a drainage system!

Thanks!

 

[JonRich]

little update on this tank. Out of the blue i had a white fly infestation on the centerpiece Hibiscus, it eventually died. I waited a few weeks for all the flies to die and finally got around to replanting it. Also took some bamboo out (they had eggs in them an will be incubated in another tank. I added some vertical vines for climbing space)..I like how it turned out, still would like to get some more foreground plants in there, there are 2-3 pots in the front that are empty.

Video (it's normally not this wet. It gets misted 2 times a day for 30 seconds at a time).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T32m45v1CVs

few pix