made a rain system in my viv a few days ago. its simple and it works well. better then expected actually.



all it is is a simple pond pump pushing water threw two garden sprinklers attached to the top of the tank. thought i'd need a large pump but the single 12ft head 250GPM pond pump I have already has no trouble pushing water to both. also didn't even have to adjust the valves to direct the water to the the further sprinkler. despite how it looks in the above pic, the water actually covers nearly all the plants and landscape due to it splashing off the taller plants and logs.




approximate costs:
2x round garden sprinklers - less then 5 bucks
15ft section of hose (for this viv anyway) - less then 10 bucks
splitter and hose ends so it could be screwed together - less then 10 bucks
250gpm 12ft head pump - think it was around 25 dollars (a smaller rain system would need a much smaller pump though)

having it all work perfectly fine without a single issue or other problem the first time you set it up and turn it on....erm...unexpected :P

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Pretty cool looking.
How do you get rid of the excess water in the enclosure?
Is there a drain of some sort?

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NICE. So what's going to be living in there and how big is that?

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the tank has a false bottom with a drain that leads to a 40 gallon reservoir below it.

eventually (when its finished, still need to set up the background) it'll have a bunch of leucomelas in it.

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Very creative! I'm working on a PDF enclosure too, and I'll be getting Leucs as well. How big did you say it was? How many frogs will you put in it? Have you kept PDFs before? Have you already started culturing fruit flies?

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inside dimensions of it are 6ftx2ftx almost 4ft tall. its about 360 gallons.

as for how many leucs...don't know. will probably start with 3 or 4 and let them breed to increase the number in it.
these will be my first PDFs. havn't cultured any FFs yet. probably wont get frogs until spring or summer. but...i said the same thing last year too :P.

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Oh well its always better to get all the kinks worked out before you get the inhabitants!

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That's really clever. I hadn't thought of that before. I prefer more of a gentle mist, but I love how cheap and simple it would be to set that up. And it would be just like normal rain.

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Very Cool idea. I may have to put something like this on my 29, depending on what I put in it. THe way I was thinking of doing this seems a bit overcomplicated now. Do you have the pump plugged into a timer, or is this manual?

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nah. currently its just using the pump that I use for the water feature and I have to open a valve to direct the water to the sprinklers.

i want to get a 2nd pump and put it on a timer so it can run for a few secs daily. when its off for a while mold starts to grow in the sprinkler heads and then when turned on theres a horrible smell that comes out of them.

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