55 gallon with bad glass.

[Emperornibble]

I got my mosses, cleaned them, put them in tupperware and gassed them with co2. The liverworts didn't fare so well, but a few of them were ok.

I came across this moss, it made little flowers as you can see here:

I have my fans and fogger set on separate timers. The fans turn off for half and hour while the fogger turns on for half an hour, so the fog gets nice and thick coating the lower mosses in dew. Then the lights go out and the blue led fans kick on. So its kind of like fog rolling in before the sun goes down every night. Hopefully they will catch on that the fog signals the lights going out.


In a few months the moss will hopefully settle in and spread.
Here is a video of the fogger coming on:
YouTube - Mossy frog paludarium
I still have to wait a few weeks for the frogs to get bigger before putting them in, but growth is going fast!

[MartinM]

I hope your moss does well. In my experience, a lot of transplanted moss dies, I guess because it's hard to replicate the conditions under which it grew. I like your gravel. You didn't say how you eventually sterilized it, but I imagine boiling it for about half an hour would do the trick. I have always used unsterilized gravel because I wanted to keep alive the organisms that come with it.
Martin

[Emperornibble]

Originally Posted by MartinM

I hope your moss does well. In my experience, a lot of transplanted moss dies, I guess because it's hard to replicate the conditions under which it grew. I like your gravel. You didn't say how you eventually sterilized it, but I imagine boiling it for about half an hour would do the trick. I have always used unsterilized gravel because I wanted to keep alive the organisms that come with it.
Martin

I used a 1/4 cup bleach a gallon and let it soak, rinsed the hell out of it, then rinsed again and then put it in the tank for a week before anything else.

[Pavel]

Sweet looking set up ya got there!

[Emperornibble]

Originally Posted by Pavel

Sweet looking set up ya got there!

Thanks! I still feel like I should have taken more time on it. got a few bare spots that didn't show until I put water in. Next time I'm using the black gs for sure.

[Emperornibble]

Its been 5 weeks and a good amount of moss survived and a big patch of liverworts too. The frogs are in and everything is taking off. Put some java moss in to cover the bottom of the back wall. Got some chain swords going and the baby tears have spread across the surface. I even got some bright green algae growing on the stump.
I went to a music festival and turns out the power went out and the temp dropped pretty bad and now my fish are starting to die from ick. So I started treating the water and wanted to know... Can ick be harmful to frogs? The guy at petco had no clue. The humidity is so high that they spend the entire day out of the water and only go in to get to the feeding dish at night.



Otherwise everything is going really well. The frogs have more than doubled in size. This tank is in my living room and they will come out to eat if even if the tv and table lamp are on.

[beckdg]

i think it's probably best to remove the frogs for ich treatment. not sure if they can get ich (don't think so), but ich treatments are either caustic chemicals or combinations of heat and salinity. i dunno how much salinity fire bellied toads can take, either TBH.

[Emperornibble]

Well, today its been 3 months since I put water in it so here is an update!


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As of now I have these inside:
4 Mossy Frogs
6 zebra danios
1 pleco
3 otto cats
1 freshwater clam
unknown number of snails, but its a lot. They are all tiny versions of the 2 snails I had in here.