Guess what I'm going to do with this!!!

[Jesse]

Sweet, I can't wait to see this done!

Jesse

[biocmp]

Baxter, bark twice if your in milwaukee! seriously, I really want to see you finish this. Definately plan 20 times and only do it once. I think this could be awesome and give the frogs so much space to climb. I think you could get away with one long fluorescent going down the back, if you wanted to build up the sides with plants. You could also just run patches of great stuff with coir and put a few plants here and there on the back wall, but leave most of it transparent. Sooo many options.

A nice pilea would do great all the way at the bottom of that tank. I've got some pilea outside a viv growing in a windowsill type flower pot on the floor and it gets tons of shade. It looks better there than in my viv. It even flowered for me.

[defaced]

That's a very nice find.

For the holes, I'd looke into open cell foam instead of screen. Using foam will allow you to keep the whole thing looking clean because you won't need an adheasive.

I've helped a couple of people with light level fall off, and it's an inverse relationship (y=k/x), so if it's 60" tall, you're looking at needing around 5000 lumens of light to get a good amound of light to the bottom (500 lumens). As for what lights to use to make this 5000 lumens, I don't know.

Edit: I think I'm forgetting to take floor area into account. I'll check my numbers and post back.

[dmartin72]

Was I the only one that thought the Anchorman line/picture was funny as $%!* :?: Nice find...I've been thinking about doing a really tall viv!

[jsagcincy]

Originally Posted by dmartin72

Was I the only one that thought the Anchorman line/picture was funny as $%!* :?: Nice find...I've been thinking about doing a really tall viv!

I'm with you David. That movie is a classic.

Good luck converting that. It should turn out awesome no matter what you do with the lighting. Personally, I'd go with the shaded bottom and just do a bright overhead fixture. There are some cool shade plants and if you put some pumilio in there they won't hang out down there much anyway.

lots of ferns and other plants will do well in low light, and if you really want higher light plants, just use two stand alone lamps in the sides to light it (like someone mentioned before). Really really jealous here. Make sure to make a journal.

[KeroKero]

I just about rolled over and died when I saw the anchorman pic (especially since I just recently saw the movie). Way too funny.

I think it would be cool to see if you could have a log of driftwood (or make one) that goes up the tank... leaf litter bottom with seriously low light plants (there are a number that would do fine with just ambient room light - like maranta, as my zaparo tank has proved), and as you get closer to the top more and more sun loving epiphytes.

Or we could just put the door on and remember to feed you every once and a while

[Hak]

OMG jealous as hell here! I could only imagine the possibilities and pain involved in that project but so worth it. Reminds me of when i found a 6'L 4'H 2.5'D jewelery dispay case someone had a boa or something in just sitting next to the dumpster at my apartments :lol: I turned that badboy into a chunk of the Outback for my Bearded Dragon and ran into many problems with heat/light but it all worked out. I cant wait to see what u do with it! I'm with Catfur on the ventilation idea. I would suck fresh air through the holes in the side and pump the heat out of the top.

[vignolo]

Hi

That's a real nice ideal. I'm always looking at glass display cases and wondering to bring them home! But you did it

For the door, can't you use the drilled holes to put some strap hinge (google translation )? This way, you could make a full opening front door.
You would just hav to drill the door to fit the fixtures.

Good Luck!
PL