Dendroblog: 20 Gallon Viv

(because of time constraints, this post and these pictures are pretty much copied from a post on Dendroboard)

About the viv:
I have been working on a 20 for over a month. It has two pieces of Malaysian driftwood, one siliconed to the wall, and the other kind of fits against it. I have two neo (walmart) broms in the driftwood, a ficus in the back right corner next to another (home depot) brom that I love because it is blushing pink in the middle and it is so hardy (but I don't have an ID), a pothos in the middle, and a fern on the side, half hidden under the driftwood. The back is silicone, then gs, then silicone, then coco. I carved out a shelf for a coco hut, and there is another one underneath the other driftwood. It was seeded with springs for a while before I moved them over, and I've had them on Panacur for a while to get rid of some worms that fecals showed--so I'm hoping to keep that out of this tank.

I just added some two creepers (one fig, and the other we don't know--has red leaf buds that eventually turn green with just a hint of orange as they expand) from a friend of mine on here that were overgrowing his 55 gallon, so I'll have to keep them trimmed. (but I don't have a picture of that yet.)

I'm also glad I snapped a few pics of the frogs in the deli cup I caught and transferred them in, because since releasing them, I haven't seen them at all! Typically they go on a cycle through past vivs with hiding for a while and then becoming more active--and the more hiding places the better, so I'm hoping as this is my first tank with leaf litter, they will be much more visible after they get settled.

The substrate is an egg crate false bottom covered with hydroton that is visible and slopes to a corner "pond" which doubles as a siphon point should the water get too high. That is covered with a thin layer of sphagnum/coco mix, a layer of just sphagnum, and leaf litter on top.

Fred