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I posted a little bit back about the tadpole organizer that I made. Here is the thread for those that don't know what it looked like
http://www.dendroboard.com/phpBB2/viewt ... +organizer
Now, few issues that I have... My frog room temp is about 21'C (69F) and drops a little at night. That's OK for my tanks, as they're all with CF lights and during the day I end up with 24'-25C (75'F) which is great. At night the temp drop is also fine. It drops to about 60-62. Trouble is that my tadpole organizer is also in my frog room and the temp of the water is few degrees colder then in my frog room. At that temp ...ie.. 64'F my tads take forever to develop. I'm thinking of making another tadpole setup.... this one would be something like this:
reservoir at the bottom, with heated water. Tower of drawers 3 wide and 15 high (for total of 45 drawers) on top of the reservoir. Now with an external canister filter I would pipe up the water to the top drawers and it would then cascade down the column heating up the water in all the drawers. I have it all figured out, construction would not be an issue.
Big question is:
With one common source for all the tads, should I worry about diseases cross contamination, etc? Tads seem quite resistant and will live in the junkiest water, so with heated, filtered and conditioned water I'm thinking I should be OK. Of course the water quality for the whole setup would be closely monitored and with wet/dry filtration (which would be very easy to do in this case) and with the external canister filter I’m thinking I can get it done and it will function properly, reducing maintenance and providing optimal conditions for my tads.
I don't really have that much time in the day to be changing water and doing all the maintenance so my aim is to have the best setup with minimal maintenance.
Also, seems easier to control 1 larger water source then 45 smaller ones.
Please let me know what you guys think… experienced guys, do chime in.
PS. An added improvement to my drawers, other then drain setup, will be compartments, that way I can separate larger tads from the rest.
http://www.dendroboard.com/phpBB2/viewt ... +organizer
Now, few issues that I have... My frog room temp is about 21'C (69F) and drops a little at night. That's OK for my tanks, as they're all with CF lights and during the day I end up with 24'-25C (75'F) which is great. At night the temp drop is also fine. It drops to about 60-62. Trouble is that my tadpole organizer is also in my frog room and the temp of the water is few degrees colder then in my frog room. At that temp ...ie.. 64'F my tads take forever to develop. I'm thinking of making another tadpole setup.... this one would be something like this:
reservoir at the bottom, with heated water. Tower of drawers 3 wide and 15 high (for total of 45 drawers) on top of the reservoir. Now with an external canister filter I would pipe up the water to the top drawers and it would then cascade down the column heating up the water in all the drawers. I have it all figured out, construction would not be an issue.
Big question is:
With one common source for all the tads, should I worry about diseases cross contamination, etc? Tads seem quite resistant and will live in the junkiest water, so with heated, filtered and conditioned water I'm thinking I should be OK. Of course the water quality for the whole setup would be closely monitored and with wet/dry filtration (which would be very easy to do in this case) and with the external canister filter I’m thinking I can get it done and it will function properly, reducing maintenance and providing optimal conditions for my tads.
I don't really have that much time in the day to be changing water and doing all the maintenance so my aim is to have the best setup with minimal maintenance.
Also, seems easier to control 1 larger water source then 45 smaller ones.
Please let me know what you guys think… experienced guys, do chime in.
PS. An added improvement to my drawers, other then drain setup, will be compartments, that way I can separate larger tads from the rest.