Terrarium

[jesse]

ok since i dont have a digital camera i am forced to take pics with my web cam, so please forgive the low quality. This is a terrarium that i set up. I was wondering what i could keep in it? the humidity is very high, and the temps reach 80 to 87 degrees during the day, it stays in the low eighties high seventies at night. I know there is no chance of keeping any ambystomatids in it. since the temp is too high, so could what could i possibly keep in this thing? here are some pics, its a ten gallon by the way

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(Message edited by jennewt on August 13, 2004)

[lucas]

i think its cool, if not a bit blurry.

[mike_g]

Jesse-
You should try resizing the photos and also putting some spaces in between them. Its pretty hard to see what I'm looking at and the large size of them doesn't help.
~Mike

[jesse]

ok im gonna give it another shot

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(Message edited by jennewt on August 13, 2004)

[jesse]

ok obviously photography and me never really go along all to well, anywho do any of you guys know what kind of animal i could keep in such a set up? or should this be a plants only kind of thing?

[jennifer]

I'll bet there is some kind of frog that would love the warm temp and find this a good home. (It might need a heater in winter to keep the temp warm enough.) I'm not a frog person, so I really don't know what kind.

[mike_g]

You could try dart frogs or possibly a small gecko species, I probably would just keep it as a 'plants only' though.
~Mike

[alan]

Bit too warm for dartfrogs, and not really setup right. You could consider a horned frog.

[mike_g]

I was talking to Jesse a little and realized that it probably is too warm even for darts, and the air circulation in there is probably not good enough. Only problem with horned frogs is that they would destroy the plants and probably foul the tank, I think it'd be better just to be a "plant only" tank.
~Mike

[edward]

Horned frogs also prefer it in the mid 70s F to 80s F so it may be a little too warm for them also. If you increase the ventilation a little more it would be suitable for green anoles.

Ed

[mike_g]

I may be wrong, but I remember someone telling me (I cant remember for what species, either) that if your tank is humid enough to have condensation all over the glass most of the time, then you need to have better air circulation. I think it might have been in relation to dart frogs.
~Mike

[jesse]

thank for the replies everyone i think i may try to see if there are any arthropods that i may be able to put in there, like a taratula, millipede or something to that effect. i tested the temp to the mid seventies. I let my gf's red eyed treefrog hang out in it for a couple of hour, and it really liked it, but i think im going to go the route of arthropods, mabey i can get springtails to live there.