My Eastern Newt Tank

[richard]

There's three wee little N.v.v.'s and one big one that's mostly aquatic now. They were all hiding except this little guy.

Here's the tank! A mist drips onto the moss to keep it moist. With the lid down the surface of the water gets covered with an inch layer of fog.

 

[mark]

Looks nice, you sure have a lot of water in that tank.

 

[joshua]

That looks pretty nice.
How did you do your lid, I see egg crate with a flourescent attatched to it. And how did you do your land platform, that rock has to be pretty heavy on it.

 

[richard]

The lid starts as a pet store plastic rimmed reptile cage lid that just lays on top, but is critter escape proof. The light has pieces that hold the bulb, and these are the only thing going through the screen in the reptile lid. Below that layer is a layer of egg crate that is just big enough to sit on the inner rim of the top of the tank. The links of egg crate that would be blocking the bulb (and bulb holding pieces) are removed. The bulbs have to be put on last. It all fit together surprisingly well. Unexpectedly, the egg crate seems to be just the right size to match the size of the bulbs with them right in the center.
The land platform is an L of egg crate sitting on four 3 inch diameter plexiglass tubes. The picture is at an angle and they're underwater, so they don't look like they're directly underneath the rock pieces. Each plexiglass tube has something heavy on it, and the corner tube is where the filter feeds up through the top and over the rocks.

 

[mindy]

For a second I thought that rock was floating...

 

[hayden]

That's a really neat land platform. I'll have to try it when I Revamp my Karelinii tank

 

[terry]

I like that shamrock/ wood sorrel plant on top. adds a nice touch.