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Hey guys... Its almost go time! Im going to be picking up 4 sub adult tarapoto imititators (5mo or so) on thursday. Still waiting on some more bromeliads, springtails, pods, and leaf litter but they should all be here no later than wednesday. I was having issues with humidity so I went with a full glass top which then caused heat problems that required a solution. the avg temp was about 86 degrees so my goal was to come down a full ten degrees without having to cut back lighting. The system was incrediably easy to set up and only required a drill. I started with two 170 gal rated air pumps t'd two of the outputs on each pump together then drilled a few holes in the vinyl backing on the glass top and ran some airline tubing and suction cuped the returns to the sides and top. One of the pumps has a humidifier that all four returns are connected to. It consists of a two litter bottle an airstone and a sponge. The sponge is connected to the lid on the bottle, the input has an airtstone running down into the container which is half filled with ro water the return pumps constant moist air into the viv keeping the humidity a constant 90%. I also used a zoomed aqua cool (basically a blower that is intended to blow air over an aquariums surface to cool the tank off) cut a hole big enough to fit the nozzle into the vinyl backing, and now I have a temp gradient that ranges from 73.4 to 78 up towards the top of the tankduring the day and 66-71 at night.
Ive added alot more plants to the viv and im still waiting on several red varities of neo's. Ill post more pics when I have the frogs!






Ive added alot more plants to the viv and im still waiting on several red varities of neo's. Ill post more pics when I have the frogs!