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Old 11-03-2010, 10:39 PM
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I have been given a strange tank its 8" wide, 8" deep but 36" high!!! With a glass lid... What (if anything) would relish an "up and down" environment or is it just too small width/depth ways? If its just not practical I can alway sgive it to my nephew with some stick insects....
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Old 11-03-2010, 10:42 PM
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Wow, that is strnge. It almost sounds like one of those light tubes that are filled with coloured water and fake fish (lke a lava lamp idea)...
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Old 11-03-2010, 10:46 PM
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It looks like it should fall over but its very stable... apparently at one point it had orchids in it with some sort of frog but obviously I'm not going to repeat that if I can't find a species that would find the dimensions adequate. I might put a plant in it and just TELL people that there's a frog in there and then time how long they spend looking for it......
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It looks like it should fall over but its very stable... apparently at one point it had orchids in it with some sort of frog but obviously I'm not going to repeat that if I can't find a species that would find the dimensions adequate. I might put a plant in it and just TELL people that there's a frog in there and then time how long they spend looking for it......

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I have no idea what you could keep in there other than maybe insects?
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Tell them there are red eyed tree frogs in there...there are three in my tank but I am sure all of my friends think I make it up because they have never seen them!
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Old 12-03-2010, 12:54 AM
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Ahhh there is a tiny green lily/reedfrog...really beautiful in fact.....looks like glass....only grows to around 10mm.....was very tempted at buying them once...but was afraid I would end up going blind searching for them in a viv.......
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Wow...sounds ace...just get a very small species of tree frog... would a golden sedge frog maybe be suitable?
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I have some small species of reed frog for sale some only 10 mm in length, that may be able to live in it so long as there was loads of branches and plants.
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I am a little worried about ventilation, the top may be fine but with such a height, wont you need to add one to the bottom also to circulate the air?
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it could well be a probelm, but it depends how the tank is layed out.
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