INCREDIBLE Fire-Bellied Toad Island Paludarium with Waterfalls

Sorry for taking the video down before. Someone caught a render error that I just couldn't leave in the video. I did a quick tweak last night after my final viewing and it ended up causing an issue with a few clips. Anyway, it's up now! Hopefully, you understand. I want everyone to have the best viewing experience I can possibly provide. Enjoy the video!

If I had that in my place, I'd never get anything done. Every time I walked by it, I would zone out staring at it for half an hour and forget what I was doing. Beautiful, love it.

The way you replicate nature is so otherworldly, you're able to get all of the small details right and because of that it's feels like you framed a piece of nature in your house. Keep up the good work!

“It’s all about constant improvement and better living conditions” that’s what makes you a good pet owner and animal keeper. It warms my heart to see fire belly toads (my first pet) in such a nice set up esp. when they can be bought for like $9 each at Petco. These toads are so lucky!!

Me: There's no way serpa can make a design more amazing than the last SerpaDesign: so anyway i started adding egg crate

I'm amazed at the brevity of the instructions: Just enough to convey the information and the context behind the descions.

Those are the most spoiled frogs in the world, you’re the best Tanner!

You should live stream one of your tanks every week on a rotation that would be sweet

Sometimes I wonder why we are so amazed by small ecosystems in a container.

I think this is your best build yet! My favorite part has got to be that spiderwood dragon stone combo

seeing the animals on their new home is heart warming.

Wonderful design. I've had fire bellies a long time and found they aren't big on water. Water features are great but you'll probably notice they spend little time swimming and rarely dive (usually only if scared). So I ultimately went with primarily soil in the terrarium with plants planted right in. I dug out a hole and put in a salad bowl at one end. It's deep and wide enough they can dive in and swim around but about 80% of the terrarium is land. They like to go hide in places and wander around so I have lots of little cave spots and pieces of wood and various plants. The fire bellies I have now are the offspring of ones I had years ago. When they released eggs into the water I collected them and raised them in a separate aquarium. Some benefits to having a deep soil terrarium is you can drop in various insects, like crickets or worms, etc. and the ones they don't eat right away go off and do their own thing. Crickets will be hanging out for weeks after feeding, and I have a permanent population of worms in there. It's become a full mini-biome. No need to ever clean most of it, waste is naturally cycled into the soil. The bowl just needs to get pulled out, washed off, and then returned.

Thank you for caring for your pets and their well-being, especially for not using them just as decor!

Tanner is just trying to get me to spend the last bit of money on cool animal stuff

I love watching Tanner’s videos. He talks you through the build throughly and interestingly: just the right amount of need-to-know and want-to-know. Lots of links to plant, material and critter info. And then we get to see the final, amazing product. There are lots of DIY build videos but these are, by far, the very best.❤

At the point when the frame is finished I just can't see how all those square lines will be ever be concealed. Then you do some sort of magic and in the end it looks amazing. I particularly like your techniques with crushed stone and moss to hide the foam. Also the small rocks sprinkled on the substrate work so well to add perspective and connectivity to the whole design. I thoroughly enjoy every one of your builds. Great stuff !

Absolute perfection in a 40 gallon tank...wow, Tanner...I could seriously sit and watch this scene for hours! I really love the islands you put together, and how they were bridged. It makes me want to do something more inspired for my cornu aspersums, so thank you for the lovely ideas!

Tanner, would like to see a video on feeding of all your specimens. Not only to watch them eat, but also so that you could explain what you feed them, and how you keep those items alive until ready to use. Care and maintenance of food items might be a good learning video all on its own.

19:30 frog asking himself if he lives in a simulation

I love fire-bellied toads. My last family gave me a little over 7 years of joy. However, as their started passing of old age, I got a bit depressed. When my last one died, I sort of let my terrarium go. Covid didn't help much either with getting fresh stock, but this video is giving me the push I need to build another even better than before. Thank you for this wonderful video and giving me the motivation to get back into a hobby that brings my life much passion.