Viavriumism.

[Elmolax]

I'm planning on building a viavrium for Red Eye tree frogs, and would like some assistance!
I would love to have a waterfall that leads into a small pond inside, but I have no clue on how to set this up.
I also would like to get some extra informationm on setting up a "false bottom"
which will allow for drainage...

 

[Arlius]

If you need drainage as in actually 'removing' it from the enclosure, this would require either a pump or cutting holes in the glass and setting up a silicon glued tube with screen filter, on a grade (raise opposite end slightly...)
False bottoms aren't difficult, its just a layer of pebbles basically, with a tube sticking down into it so you can add water directly to the pebbles.
As for a waterfall, you can get stuff like that pre-built at pet stores, along with things like foggers.
You could build it yourself, but that is rather time consuming... either way, its a seperate piece to put in, wouldn't do any good to build it in the enclosure, so a bought one would do as good I would think, unless you are the artsy type.
Then go can just add things like moss, tropical plants, rocks, grape vine, background, etc.

 

[Elmolax]

Well for the water fall i wanted it to make a type of "river" and reuse the water over again... are these premade ones you talk about expensive?

 

[Arlius]

Sort of... I've seen em range from 50 to 150. Basically all any water fall is, is just an aquarium pump, a water resevoir, and the waterfall. They all reuse the water.

 

[Empi]

Do a google search on vivarium building. There is a lot of good ideas and instructions on the net..

 

[atavuss]

http://www.blackjungle.com/gallery/talltank/page1.html has a series of step by step pictures on their site on how they made a vivarium.