90 Gallon Dart Frog Vivarium - DialUp Warning -

[Marty]

wipe your tears and build one...not hard at all

 

[Chamaeleoeo]

GORGEOUS!! be sure to post pics of the riccia and other plants filling out...

 

[MALTReptiles]

OMG! That's amazing! Those darts are gorgeous and I bet they're super happy. lol...I know I would be.

 

[Nicodemayo]

Marty this is very inspiring. I have a 28 euro bowfront im building for some frogs tomorrow. Hopefully itll turn out halfway decent lol.

 

[Chamgirl]

I love it too. One day I would like my own blue coloured dart frogs

 

[blackbetty]

We want to do a setup for PDFs too one day. Aquatic critter has theirs for sale for 5,000$! I told hubby, lets spend our tax return on that! LOL.. Very awesome. I tried the foam stuff and it did NOT go well at all.

 

[veiledchamguy]

wipe your tears and build one...not hard at all

Yeah I wish! easier said than done

 

[DaSlackMan]

You're tempting me to build another viv!

 

[BunnyGirl]

Really nice viv! I am goign to the reptile expo in Manchester in April, and I am thinking of getting a dart frog setup. This helps alot Thanks for sharing

 

[blackbetty]

Yea, Im gonna hold off on this project until we build our house. Then I am going to go all out with the Chams and frogs! 2-3 years..If the world doesnt end first

 

[dondeb562]

wow! That is an amazing set up you put together there!! Very impressive!!

 

[kearth]

Awesome set up.
Your leucs look great. I have a 92 gal corner bow front... want to come spend a month or so at my house and set it up like that for me???

 

[Marty]

Came across these pics...figured I'd post them. This is the same tank with few months of growth on it.

 

[Marty]

and few more with some miniature orchids blooming

 

[Marty]

Apologies for the screwed up colors. I had a custom white balance set for another project and snaped all these on that setting. Didn't really feel like manipulating these so here they are in screwed up colors

move forward from previous photos by about a year.. Largely neglected because of lack of time, the tank has gotten badly overgrown. Leucs calling like mad in there, but it's become so dense that I decided to rip it all out and considerably thin things down and spread some leaf litter.

This is what it looked like before I started pulling plants out. Somewhat nice but unmanageable.

Here's few photos of the tank after it got trimmed. Once you rip things out, it looks a bit crappy for a while, until it gets some new growth.

Here's my favourite Nepenthes gymnamphora. I took the whole clump out. There's actually 2 plants in there now. It must have split on me.

and here's the pruned version with more leaf litter and a bit more manageable. I purposely left it a bit empty, because that tank always manages to fill up within few months. As time goes by it will grow in a bit more and look a bit less pruned.

 

[coldbloodedAL]

Wow that is very impressive Marty! I am hoping to set up a much smaller one sometime in the near future.

 

[JackP308]

Wow, awesome work! Thanks for the pictures and recent updates. That set-up is amazing.

 

[lindseymeder16]

awesome setup. i love how real dart vivs look.

 

[Ashley89]

Mate that's the best dart frog set up vie ever seen. Well done bro

 

[Zen Reptiles]

Thanks for updating on this Marty.


I use RO water but my plants never take off like that...I only have 2 frogs in the tank though....maybe I need 8+

More frog poop: the secret to a healthy tank.