Front of frog tank
Freshly setup frog tank, before I added the four Gray Tree Frogs.
Notes about the lid:
- Made from plywood. Cut to fit, including trim which overlaps that aquarium (thus keeping the lid in place).
- Cut out the door using an oscillating saw (flat blade that allows you to cut a slot into wood without needing a pilot hole). Used a piano hinge to attach the door to the lid.
- Made a box (with five sides) to hold an under-cabinet fluorescent light, which sits across the middle of the lid. Note that I raised the lid slightly to air flow through the tank.
- Behind the lid (which you can barely see) is a heat lamp. On either side of the heat lamp are a couple slots to allow air flow.
- The blank thing on top of the light box is a hygrometer (tells me how humid it is in the tank).
- There's also a thermometer, which is not visible from this shot.
- In a later video, you'll see a white PVC tube along the right side of the tank -- the tube descends from the lid to the bottom of the tank. There's a small muffin fan sitting on top of the lid which draws air up through the tube. This way I have a small constant flow of fresh air through the tank so the air never gets stagnant. It also helps to draw the warm air (the air that is warmed by the heat lamp) down to the lower part of the tank, thus providing a more constant temperature throughout the tank.
Front of frog tank
Freshly setup frog tank, before I added the four Gray Tree Frogs.
Notes about the lid:
- Made from plywood. Cut to fit, including trim which overlaps that aquarium (thus keeping the lid in place).
- Cut out the door using an oscillating saw (flat blade that allows you to cut a slot into wood without needing a pilot hole). Used a piano hinge to attach the door to the lid.
- Made a box (with five sides) to hold an under-cabinet fluorescent light, which sits across the middle of the lid. Note that I raised the lid slightly to air flow through the tank.
- Behind the lid (which you can barely see) is a heat lamp. On either side of the heat lamp are a couple slots to allow air flow.
- The blank thing on top of the light box is a hygrometer (tells me how humid it is in the tank).
- There's also a thermometer, which is not visible from this shot.
- In a later video, you'll see a white PVC tube along the right side of the tank -- the tube descends from the lid to the bottom of the tank. There's a small muffin fan sitting on top of the lid which draws air up through the tube. This way I have a small constant flow of fresh air through the tank so the air never gets stagnant. It also helps to draw the warm air (the air that is warmed by the heat lamp) down to the lower part of the tank, thus providing a more constant temperature throughout the tank.