CWD vive replant 36"x18"x17"

froggsong · #1 (**permalink**) 08-26-2008, 01:26 PM

So... I've been having trouble because part of my frog tank broke, so I had to replant that tank anyway. And my cats have been bothering my CWD, and there is no completion date in sight for his new tank, so I needed to redo his tank so that he felt more secure. So I took most of the plants from the frog vive and switched them with the plants in his vive and added the ones I bought to go into his new one. Here's some pics... What do you guys think?

Here's one of the CWD, took it last night while my hubby was trying to keep him occupied while I replanted for some three hours...

Here's the tank pics:

froggsong · #2 (**permalink**) 08-27-2008, 11:11 AM

lol, I'm impatient, what do you guys think?

onefstsnake · #3 (**permalink**) 08-28-2008, 04:11 AM

Looks great!

How tall is that tank? Looks pretty short.

froggsong · #4 (**permalink**) 08-28-2008, 12:04 PM

It IS very short, but it was what I had when I bought him. I am in the process of building him a bigger enclosure (though not the final size he'll need, don't have room for that atm), but I just started a new job, and I haven't had much time to work on it. I posted the dimensions of the tank in the thread title though, lol... It is either 18 inches high, or 18 inches from front to back, can't remember which... I think it is 17 high though... One inch isn't that big of a difference, I just can't remember atm which way is which. There is also no FB, so don't think I am taking up precious inches with wasted space (this tank has always done VERY well without a FB, or even a drainage layer. It gets misted daily, but not watered to the point that the substrate is soggy, so I don't feel a real need for it. All of the plants do VERY well). Here's a couple of pics of him in his new setup:

As far as upward room for him to climb is concerned, there is a lower level of ground in the back (it slopes up to the front, fairly steeply), and he has plenty of branches to climb on (though not as many as before, it was too cluttered). I wanted to give him more useable floor space now that he is bigger, mostly so he would have more room to hunt, now that he finally does. Some of the plants on the pics obscure the view of the ground, so it doesn't look like there is as much as there is. He loves to sleep nestled under one plant or another, so I like to make sure he has plenty of spots to choose from (can't get him to use a hide at all). His branches also go all the way to the top of the tank, so he has a very good temp gradient up and down, and not AS much of one from side to side (though the side the pond is on is cooler than other other side). Alot of the plants in there will also support his weight and stand up to a trampling, so he really has alot more room than you would think he does.

griffen0218 · #5 (**permalink**) 08-28-2008, 12:43 PM

looks nice cwd's are so cool

froggsong · #6 (**permalink**) 08-28-2008, 03:13 PM

Thanks!

The humidity is starting to stabilize, and I did his lights a different way, and I think I finally have all the correct temps in all the right places, heh...

froggsong · #7 (**permalink**) 09-10-2008, 11:50 PM

Sooooo, he didn't like it...

I sure did. I took out a couple of the plants before, to see if he would like it better, and he kept trying to dig the higher part of the ground level with the other part. He also quit eating very well (still eating but not as much as he should have been). So, I redid it again today, but all I did was level out that higher part and move a couple of plants around, as well as change how the knarled branch was placed. He likes it MUCH better now, and he ate like a piggy today (got him some wax worms, and he ate about 15 of them

, in ADDITION to the crickets he ate this morning!) I'll take some pics of it later.

Futurehabitatcreator · #8 (**permalink**) 09-10-2008, 11:58 PM

okay frog, I have a question for you if you dont mind.=)

Assuming you dont =p

To have plants without a FB or drainage layer.

Do you just water the plants with a cup of water every few days?How often?

please give as much information as you can.

Thanks in advance

froggsong · #9 (**permalink**) 09-11-2008, 11:46 AM

I water them with a watering can stuck down into the substrate a couple times a month, to give them a really good watering (I stick the spout into the substrate because I use uncovered milled sphagnum peat moss, and it will erode if water is poured on it), sometimes I will just pour water into the open space where my pond usually sits when I take it out to clean it. Other than that, it gets misted (fairly heavily) a couple times a day, and that keeps the plants hydrated. I'm actually a little surprised it has worked out this way for so long, but it has worked out really well.

My dragon seems much happier now that the ground in his tank is level again... I was beginning to get worried about him.

Tiamat · #10 (**permalink**) 09-11-2008, 08:47 PM

imo, it is quite normal he doesn't eat very well. You did stress your reptile by changing stuff. So he has to adapt to the new stuff.

When he will be more confortable in his new setting, i am sure he wil love you for it...well, kind of loving you...

My only bad comment on your setting is indeed the visible part of the tank itself. As i understood your explanation, you only have half the terrarium visible on the side....kind of sucks....But the rest is A1!