Hello everyone, new to the site and looking to get some great ideas or advice for my suddenly needed rebuild! I have some fire belly toads (been keeping them for 6 yrs) and had been planning another rebuild for when I get some more money, but when I was cleaning and trying to switch something out in the tank this weekend, the main component of the tank fell apart so I just tore the tank down and put the frogs in a temporary tank. So I figure I might as well just completely redo it now. I have a few ideas, but am not sure if there are other options as well or how I would do them so that's why I'm here. My previous set-up was a 20g long tank with the main parts being a log landing divider, tetra waterfall in the water half, and basically a plexiglass planter box that I had made so I could have live plants in a not-so-permanent manner in the tank. I hadn't moved it until this weekend and it fell apart, so I want go with a more permanent set-up just to be easier and for it to look more natural.
I want to use the waterfall still, but I don't think I'll be using the log landing even though they always love to sit on it (we'll see though). That said, that limits what I can do because of the size of the waterfall in the 20 gallon tank. I have siliconed dividers in previous tanks, so there is always the half and half divider design. I was also thinking of putting the waterfall in the middle and putting dividers around that and so the tank is more half and half the long way instead of left to right. Even that way, there is only about 2 inches of space infront of the waterfall to the front glass so might not turn out how I really want. I have looked into false bottom set-ups as well, never attempted any, but not sure on the whole water section aspect of that type. One other thing, that I don't think is really feasible, would be putting the waterfall on one end, and finding a way to actually have that become a small stream through the land section going into the water section. I don't know how I would catch the water to create the stream, seeing as the water just goes all down the waterfall not really in just one place, so I don't think it would work. There would also be the whole thing of building the land section on top of water running underneath, might be a problem to build around the oddly shaped waterfall. So yeah, I have quite a few ideas flying around right now, but I basically want to go for a really natural looking set-up. I really envy some of the ones I've seen on here.
I recently realized that Black Jungle Terrarium Supply is actually physically located 45 minutes away, so I will be zipping over to the store tomorrow. Will be picking up the tropical moss for ground cover, terra-lite for underneath the land section, and maybe some other goodies while I'm there
So if anyone has any ideas or suggestions for the new design that would be great! I really want to nail down the new design soon so I can get going on it.
FBT 20g Long Complete Rebuild
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