Wow, those look fantastic!! Your frog room is gonna look amazing. Looking forward to seeing all your vivariums set up on the new racks. I have to say you are a true inspiration for any dart frog hobbyists. Always looking forward to your videos. Fantastic job dude!!!
Just needed to comment on as many videos as I can to help out the algorithm. The production value on your videos, especially the last couple of years has been top notch. How you don't have more subscribers is beyond insane. Keep up the great work! These are my go to videos to watch as I'm barely getting into the hobby. Thanks for all you do!
I've always built my own aquarium stands so I've just been doing that for my frogs too. I'm getting rid of my last Reef tank cuz I recently had a son and I can't keep up on my Reefs anymore, who woulda thunk babies need so much damn attention! 😁 So my frog collection has grown quite a bit, much easier to care for and it's a lot like Reefing when it comes to scaping with all live plants and animals and clean up crews. I'd probably get these racks too but I'm pretty broke. Love what the room has become Troy and these Highland Seriensis I got from you are doing amazing 👍🏼 Good look bro!
He returns! glad to see it. I am actually setting up a reptile room this week so this rack is perfectly timed. Much appreciated! Glad to see your return
I love your content Troy, I have been curious about the racking that I see in many European frog rooms but after pricing out extruded aluminum material I found it too expensive for my needs. Keep up the great work you do !!!
Yea I need to do some upgrades and I used to actually work for a place that made display racks, my job was welding the seems and cutting and bending those tubes. I might have to go talk to my old boss and could likely get most of the supplies for a rack like that for free 🤷♂️ worth a shot. Some times it not what you know but who you know🤘🏻. Honestly it came out amazing and definitely can’t wait to see the rest of the stands finished and thank you for the idea 💡
Hi Troy, will be interested to see how you go racking the larger vivariums. If you have time a short video would be awesome. Should allow for a massive expansion to the frog room.
Do it bro! It's a wicked awesome hobby specially making your own vivariums. This is definitely the channel to learn from. Troy's a great dude, I even bought frogs off him recently.
This is such a great looking system. Thanks for sharing this! I'm looking into something similar, and I was wondering if you went with 0.065 thickness for the aluminum tubing? Does it fit well with the steel core connectors?
Hello, beautiful project. But do the terrariums only rest on the front and rear bars of the rack, or have you installed a shelf on each level of the structure?
Great job, Troy. Always look forward to the videos! My question is why are you giving up the Atelopus? Seems like the fringed leaf frogs would just stick to and dirty up the glass. You may also be fishing out drowned crickets in the stream. I might be biased because they are my favorite but Atelopus seem to have a lot more character imo…
Great to see you again, a really nice rack you mentioned that you had acquaintances in europe who have it. Is it possible to arrange info where you can order them I would have been grateful for that. Looking forward to the next video
Troy, Those racks will transform your room into an even nicer show palace! Same type racks I bought years ago from Vision for my snakes. But I have a question. There isn't a center brace so the vivarium only sits on the front and back cross bars. If the vivarium is bumped into can it slip off the front bar and wedge in between the 2 bars possibly cracking the glass? Thanks
Hey, first, love you, your videos and the rack! I just got some questions; couldn’t that Terrarium just slip by like 3cm and fall off? And does the glass floor really hold the weight of the whole terrarium with just the front and back side on the bar? And what would be the max terri size for this kind of rack system be? Sorry for the many question but if anybody here has some experience i would be very thankful for every tip!
Yes you need to put some sort of brace on the back so it can’t slide off… and yes the front and back hold all the weight… there’s not much weight on the bottom pane of glass
@@TroyGoldberg I was thinking for when you need bigger vivariums that are not as easy to get or can be rather expensive. Sourcing the panels might be the hardest part. I just don't know if in the end you would be saving enough to make it worth wile.
So I assume the tanks just sit on the frame around it’s edge with no support for the middle parts of the tank bottoms? Assume the glass bottoms themselves are sting enough to cope. This does look so much nicer will have to look into this
Sorry for the unrelated question (to this video), but I'm at quite a loss. How the hell do you make moss grow? I built my first terrarium about 2 years ago, and most is going great. Almost all plants are doing great, bromelias are producing a lot of offspring, even most orchids are fine. But I just can't get moss to grow. I used local and tropical, seeds and patches... the seeds worked fine in the beginning, but after creating a beautiful peice of moss, went black and died down. The patches either die or, if I'm lucky, survive, but never grow. (again, in 2 years...) What is the secret of moss growth?
cheers Troy! My superlarge Vrisea does look somewhat filthy with lots of white crusted dots. Do you know how to best clean them? I feel like I've seen you touch on that subject several years back but now I can't find it^^
Sounds like scale…. Pretty hard to get rid of… best way to get rid of it is early on in the initial rinse… 10% bleach solution and a few drops of dish soap
@@TroyGoldberg aight I ripped that xxl brom out, ancient vrisea roots are no joke btw. brought it to the bathtub, took a kitchen sponge and started scrubbing like motherflower. So considering this was years of build up, population should be under control. once spring comes, I always have a dozens of lady bugs around. I'll recruit a legion of these to take care of this heresy once it for all.
Hi Troy, quick question as too how much extra clearance you allowed for the tanks to be installed into the frames 1/4 inch each side etc. looking forward to see the new frog room.
Hey Troy regarding your euro style 2 viv I am having trouble finding the 1/4 L Track on out water plastics, can you send me link? Also are you just using basic black window screen mesh for yours?
@@TroyGoldberg another quick question on a lot of your vivs you use Java moss and rittia. But are you still keeping it a secret who you get the low growing tropical moss from or where I can get something like it? Just really would love to replicate your work, it’s amazing!
Hey troy, i have 3 pumilios Cristóbal, i mantains at day a gradiente of temperature: 72-80 but at night 68-72, you said that you have your pumilio at 72-80, but do you low the temperature at night?
you should mention who the person is were you took the thumnail for this video is from, he's Belgian and got a instagram page too :-) , also we europeans use flange tubes on the tube where the tank sit on , put a piece of wood between these and then put the tank on there ., as always nice informatic video
And yeah I’ve seen where you guys use the board on top of the flange. I thought about doing that, but I now quite a few people here in the states that didn’t do it, and not really needed.
@@TroyGoldberg No you don't need it as long as the bottemglas plate of the tank is thick enough. the advantage the wooden plate has, for me , is that I hang up the lights on it, but each so do what they think is best ofcourse.
Is there any reason one couldn’t build an enclosure using the aluminum tube system and the glass/panel track pieces they have available? Presumably it wouldn’t rust, but I imagine I’m missing something important.
Yo Troy question when you started out did you wife give you an earful too lol cuz mine was tripping at first but once she saw it comes together she fell in love 💘. In fact she feeds all my 🐸, cuz I leave to work early in the am. I got the simple 6ft racks that hold 600 pounds from Walmart for now. Eventually I'll upgrade once I get my own pad to start a badass frog room like yours!
Hello Troy, i hope you still reply to comments because no one would be better than you to ask. Which thumbnail species in your opinion is the boldest of them all?
@@TroyGoldberg that is very interesting as a lot of people online put imitators and boldest and rated reticulata as quite shy. I guess it all depends on each individual frog
Main Question hows your electricity bill, my wife doesnt let me go more then 2 terrarium, and I want more Darts man lol help me convince her! 😢😢😢😢 she doesnt understand the addiction!
I’m not actually sure about how much weight they can hold… I think with the steel core connectors it may be possible, but it would also depend on the size of aquariums… being they’re significantly heavier than Vivariums
Wow, those look fantastic!! Your frog room is gonna look amazing. Looking forward to seeing all your vivariums set up on the new racks. I have to say you are a true inspiration for any dart frog hobbyists. Always looking forward to your videos. Fantastic job dude!!!
Thanks man!!
Man, photography on the intro is gorgeous
Thanks!!
Just needed to comment on as many videos as I can to help out the algorithm. The production value on your videos, especially the last couple of years has been top notch. How you don't have more subscribers is beyond insane. Keep up the great work! These are my go to videos to watch as I'm barely getting into the hobby. Thanks for all you do!
My beard grew grey waiting for a video!! Fantastic job, love the content
Amazing!!! Well worth the wait, Troy. Now I'm going to wait on the wire rack I was thinking about.
I've always built my own aquarium stands so I've just been doing that for my frogs too. I'm getting rid of my last Reef tank cuz I recently had a son and I can't keep up on my Reefs anymore, who woulda thunk babies need so much damn attention! 😁 So my frog collection has grown quite a bit, much easier to care for and it's a lot like Reefing when it comes to scaping with all live plants and animals and clean up crews. I'd probably get these racks too but I'm pretty broke. Love what the room has become Troy and these Highland Seriensis I got from you are doing amazing 👍🏼 Good look bro!
He returns! glad to see it. I am actually setting up a reptile room this week so this rack is perfectly timed. Much appreciated!
Glad to see your return
Thanks buddy!
I love your content Troy, I have been curious about the racking that I see in many European frog rooms but after pricing out extruded aluminum material I found it too expensive for my needs. Keep up the great work you do !!!
Fantastic intro. The racks look great.
Thanks!!
ive been frogging since i could walk. so excited to see new species being introduced by you :)
Wow, now I need to go and buy some of these. That looks NICE.
Where do the tanks sit on the rack, just on the front and back edges of the rack?
Yep just on the front and rear 22.5” tubes
Thank you for proving This sub wasn't a waste. much love to your fam in the holidays
Thanks for the vid Troy!
Glad to see you back. The frogroom is going to look great.
Yea I need to do some upgrades and I used to actually work for a place that made display racks, my job was welding the seems and cutting and bending those tubes. I might have to go talk to my old boss and could likely get most of the supplies for a rack like that for free 🤷♂️ worth a shot. Some times it not what you know but who you know🤘🏻. Honestly it came out amazing and definitely can’t wait to see the rest of the stands finished and thank you for the idea 💡
Just what I needed! Encouragement to get more than one viv.
You did a wonderful job with explaining and assembly. Those stands will look great in any animal room.
Great video! Loved the chill vibes and calm voice.
Thanks!
You have the BEST garage! In Spain is not posible buy carotenoid plus!
Loved this video! I'll definitely be giving this a shot!
Hi Troy, will be interested to see how you go racking the larger vivariums. If you have time a short video would be awesome. Should allow for a massive expansion to the frog room.
Great to see you're back posting videos. Happy holidays from Germany
Thanks!!
Those are a nice setup welcome back
Thanks!!
Hey! I just discovered your channel! And it’s awesome! I’m thinking about getting some darts! And you have the perfect channel!
Do it bro! It's a wicked awesome hobby specially making your own vivariums. This is definitely the channel to learn from. Troy's a great dude, I even bought frogs off him recently.
@@LJsReef I thinking about it! Hopefully will join the community of dart keepers!
Thanks!!! You’ll love this hobby!
@@TroyGoldberg your awesome man! Keep up the great work! 🙌🏼
Amazing tutorial! Subscribed.🐸
Seems like youre very busy aside from the youtube channel. Very hyped how this sytsem turned out in the frog room update which is hopefully coming
that intro edit! oof on point brotha!
finally!! for a second
there i was afraid i lost one of my favorite
youtubers😅
Hahah just busy with life… lol, I should be able to post quite a bit here in the coming months :)
To make it even more clean, you can also use the sliders at the bottom row.
Smashing video bud
This is such a great looking system. Thanks for sharing this! I'm looking into something similar, and I was wondering if you went with 0.065 thickness for the aluminum tubing? Does it fit well with the steel core connectors?
Heck yeah! Love that clean look. I don't know if I'll be happy with any other kinda stand now lol.
Hahaha Yeah I think it’s the best looking rack system out there
I really enjoy these how to videos. Curious if you have or could do one about lighting and misting schedule?
Super this vid is super informative
Beautiful room
sending Loooooooove from poland :D
Hello, beautiful project. But do the terrariums only rest on the front and rear bars of the rack, or have you installed a shelf on each level of the structure?
Great job, Troy. Always look forward to the videos! My question is why are you giving up the Atelopus? Seems like the fringed leaf frogs would just stick to and dirty up the glass. You may also be fishing out drowned crickets in the stream. I might be biased because they are my favorite but Atelopus seem to have a lot more character imo…
Wow man these look amazing. Not sure if I missed this part but where do you get the material and is it aluminum or black steel?
Would this system hold 2 18x18s side b side before another upright? I think I'd follow your advice and have 3 cross pieces if that makes a difference.
Great to see you again, a really nice rack you mentioned that you had acquaintances in europe who have it. Is it possible to arrange info where you can order them I would have been grateful for that. Looking forward to the next video
I’m not sure what you’re asking
If you live in the Netherlands or close you can buy these racks from Dutch Rana, they cost a pretty penny though..
@@reageerbuisje5391 I live in sweden so if they send it can work
@@jo3895 sadly only shipping in netherlands and belgium. You could try to mail them and ask if they know any company that could help you.
These are so beautiful and clean looking! How do the tanks set on there? Do they set on the tubing?
Set on the front and back tubes
Amazing Troy
Thanks!!
Thats awesome. Do all tanks have a drain or how do you manage to drain water??
Troy, Those racks will transform your room into an even nicer show palace! Same type racks I bought years ago from Vision for my snakes. But I have a question. There isn't a center brace so the vivarium only sits on the front and back cross bars. If the vivarium is bumped into can it slip off the front bar and wedge in between the 2 bars possibly cracking the glass? Thanks
Just need to attatch something on the back so the tank can’t slide off
Nice friend!
Can you give me some advices on how to keep the plants in that shape!?
Hey, first, love you, your videos and the rack! I just got some questions; couldn’t that Terrarium just slip by like 3cm and fall off? And does the glass floor really hold the weight of the whole terrarium with just the front and back side on the bar? And what would be the max terri size for this kind of rack system be?
Sorry for the many question but if anybody here has some experience i would be very thankful for every tip!
Yes you need to put some sort of brace on the back so it can’t slide off… and yes the front and back hold all the weight… there’s not much weight on the bottom pane of glass
My tanks are all drilled for drainage, and they only hold aboit 2-4 gallons of water in the bottom are where all the weight it being held
The bigger 44” wide tanks I plan on doing a bar running across the middle so there’s a third bar of support… but I haven’t built those racks yyet
@@TroyGoldberg Great Thank you so so much!
end of the year room tour pleeeeease!!!!!!
I’ll do a tour before I change it all up
What thickness is the wall on these tubes? 0.050?
amazing, Troy what lights do you use in your terrarium? You can send a link, thank you
I use led shoplights off amazon 6000k color spectrum on the rack systems
I wonder if you could use the tube and connectors to make you own vivarium.
Possibly… not sure why’d you want to do that though
@@TroyGoldberg I was thinking for when you need bigger vivariums that are not as easy to get or can be rather expensive. Sourcing the panels might be the hardest part. I just don't know if in the end you
would be saving enough to make it worth wile.
So I assume the tanks just sit on the frame around it’s edge with no support for the middle parts of the tank bottoms? Assume the glass bottoms themselves are sting enough to cope. This does look so much nicer will have to look into this
That would be correct.
How many "hefty pennies" are in $500? Awesome video. New inspiration for yet another racking system.
Haha thanks buddy! Hope you’re doing well!
Sorry for the unrelated question (to this video), but I'm at quite a loss.
How the hell do you make moss grow?
I built my first terrarium about 2 years ago, and most is going great. Almost all plants are doing great, bromelias are producing a lot of offspring, even most orchids are fine.
But I just can't get moss to grow.
I used local and tropical, seeds and patches... the seeds worked fine in the beginning, but after creating a beautiful peice of moss, went black and died down.
The patches either die or, if I'm lucky, survive, but never grow. (again, in 2 years...)
What is the secret of moss growth?
cheers Troy! My superlarge Vrisea does look somewhat filthy with lots of white crusted dots. Do you know how to best clean them? I feel like I've seen you touch on that subject several years back but now I can't find it^^
Sounds like scale…. Pretty hard to get rid of… best way to get rid of it is early on in the initial rinse… 10% bleach solution and a few drops of dish soap
It’s probably too late to save it.
@@TroyGoldberg that's not the reply I would have hoped for^^ thx mate I'll look into it. any danger of it spreading to other broms?
It can spread yes
@@TroyGoldberg aight I ripped that xxl brom out, ancient vrisea roots are no joke btw. brought it to the bathtub, took a kitchen sponge and started scrubbing like motherflower. So considering this was years of build up, population should be under control. once spring comes, I always have a dozens of lady bugs around. I'll recruit a legion of these to take care of this heresy once it for all.
Hi Troy, quick question as too how much extra clearance you allowed for the tanks to be installed into the frames 1/4 inch each side etc. looking forward to see the new frog room.
Yep 1/4”
Thanks Troy.
How is the transition going?
Got one wall done… it’s gonna be a little while… quite a bit of work
You should activate the Spanish subtitles option. Regards from Mexico 🇲🇽
I have a question, can I fasten moss or plant cuttings with aquarium silicone on EpiWeb background? Or is that what EpiPaste is used for?
You can use whatever you’d like to
can anyone tell me the name of the yellow bromeliad with the black core? is it neoregelia of vriessa? and what subspecies?
Hey Troy regarding your euro style 2 viv I am having trouble finding the 1/4 L Track on out water plastics, can you send me link? Also are you just using basic black window screen mesh for yours?
I always call them
@@TroyGoldberg another quick question on a lot of your vivs you use Java moss and rittia. But are you still keeping it a secret who you get the low growing tropical moss from or where I can get something like it? Just really would love to replicate your work, it’s amazing!
Hey troy, i have 3 pumilios Cristóbal, i mantains at day a gradiente of temperature: 72-80 but at night 68-72, you said that you have your pumilio at 72-80, but do you low the temperature at night?
It lowers a couple degrees yes
How exactly do the Tanks sit in this rack? no extra floor plate?
No floor plate on… rest on the front and rear bar
you should mention who the person is were you took the thumnail for this video is from, he's Belgian and got a instagram page too :-) , also we europeans use flange tubes on the tube where the tank sit on , put a piece of wood between these and then put the tank on there ., as always nice informatic video
I did give Tijl credit in the actual video. I didn’t say it, but I shared his IG name, and photos in the intro
And yeah I’ve seen where you guys use the board on top of the flange. I thought about doing that, but I now quite a few people here in the states that didn’t do it, and not really needed.
@Troy Goldberg's Tropical Garage yeah saw it now sorry went by to fast the first time or didn't pay attention😉
@@TroyGoldberg No you don't need it as long as the bottemglas plate of the tank is thick enough. the advantage the wooden plate has, for me , is that I hang up the lights on it, but each so do what they think is best ofcourse.
Thanks for the support Geatan and ofc for the shoutout Troy! 😄✌️
Now that this has been set up for a while are you still happy with the plastic connectors?
Plastic connectors did just fine
Is there any reason one couldn’t build an enclosure using the aluminum tube system and the glass/panel track pieces they have available? Presumably it wouldn’t rust, but I imagine I’m missing something important.
Silicone doesn’t bond to aluminum like it does glass… there would likely be leaks
Yo Troy question when you started out did you wife give you an earful too lol cuz mine was tripping at first but once she saw it comes together she fell in love 💘. In fact she feeds all my 🐸, cuz I leave to work early in the am. I got the simple 6ft racks that hold 600 pounds from Walmart for now. Eventually I'll upgrade once I get my own pad to start a badass frog room like yours!
She knew what she was getting into when we met…. She saw the frogroom before we were dating 😂
Nice!
start a patreon with bonus updates and im in dude
Troy can you tell me where you get your wood from? I’m curious. Hope this message finds you well
Glassboxteopicals
@@TroyGoldberg is the wood ghost wood. The wood you use in your vivs look so much darker is it just from the water?
Yes
Also do you ever ship subscribers your plant cuttings? Curious cause you have so many plants if you ever sell all the cuttings you must get?
Nah not really, sometimes cutting when people order frogs
Is a 30 gal tank good for a pair of dying poison dart frogs?
Yeah that’s fine
What size flange is that on the tube. You never said
…. I’m not sure… the site doesn’t say… there’s just a double flange tube option… choose that one 😂
What is the name of the song you used for this video's intro?
Come out now
Hi do ship uk looking set up vivarium custom build
Sorry no I don’t
Hello Troy, i hope you still reply to comments because no one would be better than you to ask. Which thumbnail species in your opinion is the boldest of them all?
I’m not super privy on thumbs, I’ve had a few locales of imitator, highland sirensis and reticulata… for me the retics have been the boldest
@@TroyGoldberg that is very interesting as a lot of people online put imitators and boldest and rated reticulata as quite shy. I guess it all depends on each individual frog
Precisely
I’m curious, where do you get your plants in the US? 😊 love ur vids btw
Friends mainly, glassboxtropicals, Hiroki Cruz
Main Question hows your electricity bill, my wife doesnt let me go more then 2 terrarium, and I want more Darts man lol help me convince her! 😢😢😢😢 she doesnt understand the addiction!
Electric is high at the Goldberg household! Lol
Just a bit nervous on using plastic parts,
Yeah I’m gonna mainly use steel core connectors after this rack
Racks on racks on racks.
Hahahahaha
I need my wall to look like that intro..
How much weight can these hold? Is this viable for aquariums?
I’m not actually sure about how much weight they can hold… I think with the steel core connectors it may be possible, but it would also depend on the size of aquariums… being they’re significantly heavier than Vivariums
@@TroyGoldberg thx much for the reply, and the great video!
I always assumed you were a short dude I'm shocked you're actually 6"3
Haha
I wish it was once a week... lol
Is salmonella live threatening to reptile and amphibian keepers ?
Dang. Those racks are pricey af
Yeah definitely not cheap… but I think the overall look is extremely clean