Yes there are benefits for the frogs, check out the posts on soils by Brent... one of the benefits talked about was the higher calcium levels found in substrate microfauna that were being fed on by froglets in a tank produced by Matt Mirabello (check out his thread for more) and how Brent does not have calcium problems in tank raised pumilio froglets on his soil substrate.
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It amuses me every time you call a soil sexy :lol: But then again, who am I to talk? I was the one taking the soil pics in the southwest when you were the one driving the car :roll: Yeah I'm just a little bit nuts too... and omg I want a cutting of that Maranta! I've been looking for the green form of the red prayer plant since I saw it at ABG!!
So... on to the questions. For the lorenzo tank, why the perlite? (This is often spouted to be a froggy no-no, so explain to all who seek your dirty guideness!). Second (long winded) question... in your first tank you mentioned (on DB or FrogNet I don't remember) about how when transporting your tank back from IAD, some water sloshed, and created these pockets in the soil that have become soil critter refugiums. Did you try and create anything like this in the lorenzo tank? Is it worth trying to replicate? I was somewhat tempted to add a layer of EpiWeb to the substrate for this reason, but eventually it would probably get closed off from the surface so I dunno.
I now live on a sand bar, so I need to figure out what to do about the soils.
What is recipe number 2? So mean to tease the DBers like that
So... on to the questions. For the lorenzo tank, why the perlite? (This is often spouted to be a froggy no-no, so explain to all who seek your dirty guideness!). Second (long winded) question... in your first tank you mentioned (on DB or FrogNet I don't remember) about how when transporting your tank back from IAD, some water sloshed, and created these pockets in the soil that have become soil critter refugiums. Did you try and create anything like this in the lorenzo tank? Is it worth trying to replicate? I was somewhat tempted to add a layer of EpiWeb to the substrate for this reason, but eventually it would probably get closed off from the surface so I dunno.
I now live on a sand bar, so I need to figure out what to do about the soils.
What is recipe number 2? So mean to tease the DBers like that
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