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WALL VIVE! The antique beauty...
This is Wall Vive. I originally wanted to call it "Tiquee". Wall Vive was at one point an antique curio cabinet. It had no door, no glass back, and a few ugly shelves when I bought it for $15 at an antique store. This one took me about 2 months to complete. The base is constructed of a plexiglass panel affixed to the front, then the entire basin is covered in water putty. A layer of pea sized gravel gives the substrate good drainage. Soft air conditioner filter keeps my home made recipe of "soil" from leaching into the gravel. This vivarium contains 3 different types of ivies, a few pothos, some epiphytes and more. It has a 25 watt full spectrum incandescent lamp on top with a heating pad behing the glass backing. Wall Vive holds a pair of green tree frogs [Hyla cinerea], and a caribbean anole [Anolis sangrei] we call "Ackee"*. Sometimes I wonder if they want to jump on to the ivy plant hanging beside it.
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If you look hard enough, you can see the little treefrog in the leaf cup. Ackees' tail is longer than his body! It is his original tail, he has never automotized* it. :)
Some close ups of the green treefrogs.. look at the granular skin on that little anuran!
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Here are the two treefrogs. They usually hang out together.
"Hey baby, check out how big my throat can get!"
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Here's the latest addition (1/30/03) to Wall Vive, this is a Gold Bell Treefrog (also known as growling grass frog) Litoria aurea. This cute little frog from Australia is capable of chameleon-like color changes with mood and gorgeous gold dorsal stripes.
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