90 Gallon Update!

[jarteta97]

I gots me some pics for you guys/gals. I've been doing a little more work on the 90 gallon, with the help of my b-day money, so I thought that I would let you all see

A couple weeks ago I ordered off Craigslist something like 33 small plastic baggies of organic hermit crab food:




I also started work on the pools. I finished the saltwater, and hope to finish the freshwater around Christmas. It's like a 1 gallon cricket keeper




My little girl Violet loves it




And now for the tank itself:



Here's the new and improved moss pit I ordered, and filled with some spare AAA New Zealand Sphagnum moss. Violet's chillin' like a villain




A nice extra-large cork round I also ordered. I got the idea from Sugarselection's 90 gallon I may cut it down shorter and turn it on its side to make it more like a tunnel and less like a tree




I finally got those power-lock suction cups, and they work great!



Here's a cocohut I crafted myself. The last one was much too small



A nice dinner of kale, bell pepper, raspberry, blueberry, and black berry



Some dried dandelion I got from the goodies pack



And now some crabby pics!







Spider crab, spider crab, does whatever a spider crab does!



Here's what it looks like at night





And to cap it all off, a pic of one of my precious froggies!




Hope you all enjoyed!

[Teedeums]

Wow, looks like it is going great! That was very enjoyable, I love scrolling though huge groups of pics (no, seriously, I do )! Keep us updated on how it continues to go!

[aussieJJDude]

Wow, looking better every time I see it!
The only questions I ask is that:
a) Can you do the FW pool like now? the SW pool looks awesome
b) Is the shells, sand & plant glued to the bottom?

I glad that the crabs have already taken I liking to the pool, I bet they loving the flow of water (and maybe a deeper depth.)

[jarteta97]

Yeah, yeah, I gotta wait for those Christmas funds to do the FW . All the stuff at the bottom is aquarium siliconed into the bottom, left to cure for about half a week. When I applied the silicone, I used a bag of exo terra river bed sand and pressed some in so that it would look beachy

Thanks for the praise

[Ryry]

What are you using for a ladder in the pool? I can't tell what it is- and it doesn't look like the cross stitch plastic stuff.

[jarteta97]

It's egg crate, a type of light diffuser found at hardware stores. It's commonly used in false bottoms, and I simply cut it to the size I wanted and zip-tied some needlepoint canvas (that cross stitch stuff) to the egg crate

[Ryry]

Oooooooooo. I like the eggcrate idea!!

[sugarselections]

Everything looks great. I did kritter keeper pools for a while but ultimately switched them out because I needed more molting space at the time.

[jarteta97]

Ooooh, you know you were one of the biggest inspirations for this tank? I love your 90 gallon

[sugarselections]

Thanks. I'll actually be getting rid of my 90 in a week or two. It's been a nice tank but I'm sick of having to use a step stool to reach inside.

[jarteta97]

What are the crabs going in? Yeah, I agree, the tank height can be annoying

[sugarselections]

I'm in the finishing stages of modifying an Exo Terra terrarium (large, extra tall) so the crabs will be moving in there very soon.

[jarteta97]

36x18x36, right? Man, I'm sooooo jealous. I can't wait to see some pics. That's actually my dream tank for poison dart frogs, but that's not until the future *stares dreamily into space*

[ErikRasmussen]

I noticed your shower caddy moss pit has square holes on the side. Are they also on the bottom? Does the moss ever fall through? BTW tat looks amazing.

[jarteta97]

The holes are only in the sides. The moss clumps together, so it really doesn't fall out. And thanks