Terrarium or Vivarium Owners?

[bigbris1]

I've noticed visiting many reefers that some keep other types of pets also. I once had a terrarium/vivarium set up, which was a 30 long tank with 25/75 water/land that housed a Nile Monitor.

Thinking of setting up an artificial rainforest/firebelly toad tank for my son.

Anyone here into terrariums or vivariums?

 

[hippotangs]

I like


Sorry but are those real plants?

CAuse if it is, i think I want 1....:biggrin:

 

[lfsmarineguy]

I've actually been looking into vivariums for the past few months now and plan on setting up a dart frog tank soon. Was thinking a pair of Azureus or Dyed frogs. Been planning on a 50 breeder since it will allow enough height for the false bottom drainage.

 

[jf2381]

I see one of those in my future with automated fog maker and mist sprayers. I have been reading about them for about a year. Very cool. Elfili keeps poison dart frogs if you guys have any questions about them.

 

[bigbris1]

That's not a pic of my tank, but the plants are real.

Yeah, I was thinking of dart frogs, but with my 5 YO & all...

Maybe just some redbellies.

 

[jejton]

LFS - If you're thinking of dart frogs, check out tomorrows Reptile Expo in the Huntington Hilton ( which is actually in Melville ). If you haven't already, check out www.dendroboard.com.

 

[jejton]

BTW - I keep a bunch of other things, some in naturalistic vivariums. Mudskippers, ball python, corn snake, 5 king snakes, 2 veiled chameleons, Discus fish, Red Eyed Tree Frog, Tiger Leg Monkey Tree Frog, newts, hissing roaches, bearded dragon and day geckos plus a wife and son ( though they might object to being included on the list ).

 

[jejton]

Why would you not be able to keep darts with a 5 year old son?

 

[jhale]

I thought the dart frogs lost their poison when kept in captivity?

 

[jejton]

They obtain the alkaloids ( which is what makes up their toxins ) from insects they eat in the wild ( which in turn get the toxins from the plants they eat ). It isn't really know what the source of the toxin is. In captivity they aren't eating that diet so they dont make the toxin. The toxin, as an aside, is used in a lot of pharmaceutical, neruological and cardiological research but since it is hard to obtain enough specimens for research ( due to their limited ranges, habitat destruction, conservation efforts ), yet most are readily breedable in captivity so there is a lot of money going into figuring out how they get their toxins.

 

[al0ha]

i was actually thinking about turning a turtle tank into a corn snake/ fw aquarium tank with minnows or tetras and live plants :skull:

 

[lfsmarineguy]

I am on dendroboard.com. Just haven't had the time to actually setup a viv for the frogs. Can't wait to actually do it though, the more research I do the more I want to do with the viv.

The frogs should be fine with a 5 yr old. They aren't toxic in captivity, you can find pics all over the net of people holding their frogs (not that you should since it's detrimental to the frogs anyway).

 

[bigbris1]

Good to know!

 

[Domboski]

Here is a link to a thread started recently:http://www.manhattanreefs.com/forum/nudibar/36909-reptile-pics.html

Here is some pics of my monster display case. It is 80" tall and 48" wide with moonlights and misters.

Old Waterfall

Pictures taken of my frogs by ellebelle:

 

[BrooklynsReefMan1]

I want to get another boa i had one till bout 07 jan 21 but id like to give a more natural theme can a terrarium work for it?

 

[jejton]

Problem with keeping snakes on soil based substrates in captivity is that they tend to get infections ( from what I've been told ) but you should research it.

 

[JLAudio]

Ive had one for 5 mo.s or so it was a 50 gallon pentagon with 1/3rd water, with tons mollys and danios, baby snapper, baby painted trutle. The land part was compose of driftwood and park with a day gecko, common gecko, and a red-eyed tree frog, it was like a freshwater reef in the sense of all the diffent components

 

[jejton]

Hey I saw that on sale on CL. Did you end up selling it all?