65G Hyla versicolor Northern Woodland

[hydrophyte]

Originally Posted by karatekid14

What is that blue plastic thing? Is it to place the food for the frog?

Originally Posted by chad320

Its an old wire insulator for old powerlines.

Yep that's a very old glass insulator. It has embossed "US Patent May 20 1897" on it. I set it up on that also very old utility pole crossarm that I foudn out in the woods seperately. The insulator is the frog's favorite place to hang out.

[chad320]

So what would you charge me to collect a piece of that walking fern for my collection? Its awesome and I cant recall coming across one around here. Of course, if I buy one ill find a field of them next spring

[hydrophyte]

If you look around online nurseries that sell native plants you should be able to find it.

Try a search for "nursery" + "walking fern".

[PaulG]

You are aware there's a Dalek going after your frog right? Those guys can be pretty mean.

[hydrophyte]

I never knew that Daleks could fly...

[hydrophyte]

I am going to print the image(s) for the shadowbox background today. I split up an image from that tree into twelve and resized all to 8.5" X 11" so I could print onto clear transparency. Here they are all tiled up....



This is going to take a lot of taping to stick all these together. IT'll be a lot cheaper though (probably about $15) than printing onto a single clear sheet (probably >$100).

[hydrophyte]

Well I put the shadowbox background together and hung it up. It looks OK, but not especially awesome. It does add a bit more depth. I'm sure I could get something more impressive with more experimentation.

[hydrophyte]

Oh brother I just found a much easier way to get the background printed...

http://www.backlitposters.com/

An image printed onto a clear sheet for this tank would cost about $50, but that's only two times what I paid for a dozen letter size color transparencies, and it would be a lot less hassle.

[hydrophyte]

Here's a quick picture to shoe the effect I got with the shadowbox background. This turned out alright but with more experimentation I could get some better results too.

[hydrophyte]

Here you go here are a couple more pictures...

[plecostomouse]

looks great, i really like the electricity pole thing the frog is crouching on, gives a nice modern touch to a great biotope!

[hydrophyte]

Thanks! I wouldn't really call that glass insulator "modern". You can find them around as antiques, but I don't think they have used them for power transmission for a long time.

I remember when we were kids you could still find them on fallen-down utility poles along railroad tracks, but then people started to collect them and now you can only find them in an antiques shop.

That is the frog's favorite place to bask. He's always there.

[hydrophyte]

I had a couple more pictures...

[madness]

No fair using Latin names to make a normal old frog sound exotic!

Cool set-up and scaping as always.

[hydrophyte]

Thanks!

I think this frog is great. I really like him.