Pics my new constructed vivarium

[Raf]

I am curious, what is the small vine in this picture?

The plant is a Pilea depressa. Shouldn't be hard to find.

Thanks raf, I have a question, if the frogs in the water does not end up risking their lives? many say that they are not great swimmers Dendrobates,

Healthy frogs normally don't drown. They should ofcourse be able to get out of the water easily. Most frogs that die in the water did because of another reason (disease, stress,...)

Raf, I would like to know if you have to consider a special ppi of the filter foam when you use it for the false bottom instead of eggcrate?

I really like the idea of having a false bottom that also acts like a filter when combined with a waterfeature.

I have use ordinary filter foam with epiweb on top. You can use filter foam and cover it with fabric or something like that so the peat or other substrate doesn't wash away into the water.

I'd never considered this, is it a major concern?

Some plants really don't like it. They rot away fast. Especially aerial roots/epiphytes don't like it very much (orchid,tillandsias,...)

[Vivariant]

Wow, amazing tank man, nice job! I'm definitely excited to do a build like this sometime. I just got done with a 75 gallon tank. I did a little bit simpler of a design as it was my first time, but I think it went well. I'll have to upload a build journal on here soon...

[Thomas01]

This is truly an amazing tank!! I wish that I had a tenth of your skills!

[stefano72]

I wanted to make a consideration based on what you said cooling, if the roots are rotting of epiphytes, especially orchids and ferns, which means you have too much moisture, poor air circulation so I think, between a spray and the other one should dry everything okay a little bit of moisture but the inside should not be too wet, but I believe that you know these things before, have you tried to lower the humidity.
I apologize for my bad writing

[Raf]

I wanted to make a consideration based on what you said cooling, if the roots are rotting of epiphytes, especially orchids and ferns, which means you have too much moisture, poor air circulation so I think, between a spray and the other one should dry everything okay a little bit of moisture but the inside should not be too wet, but I believe that you know these things before, have you tried to lower the humidity.

Most vivs are too wet. Ventilation is very important that's why I wouldn't use aquariums as viv because it's difficult to get a good ventilation without ventilators. I don't need to use a vent but I use it too blow hot air into the viv coming from the lighting.

[intelsuit]

Originally Posted by Raf

I recently constructed the background of my new vivarium.
I thought it could be useful so here it is:

I used heated pvc pipes with prolypropylene rope.



I covered it with a compaktuna(/flevopol)-and peat-mixture. I finished with sealant and peat.



I made the background in pieces and afterwards I placed it in the vivarium .

The corners were made with Polyurethane foam and finished the same way as the pvc/rope.



After drying a few weeks I could begin planting the vivarium.




Result so far:

I love the idea of the sliding glass. How do you get the panes to fit tight enough to prevent the fruit flies from escaping?

[Raf]

I love the idea of the sliding glass. How do you get the panes to fit tight enough to prevent the fruit flies from escaping?

There are some fruitflies that escape but it only happens when I feed too much.
You can close it with silicone strips.

[Judy S]

I have wondered the same thing about the slight gap in the Exos--but where would one find that product in the US??

[Energy]

Sweet tank. All that work on the background and then the plants take over and hide it. It happened with mine as well.

[careys]

I'm new to this page/blog/forum? But I have to say ZOO's would be envious!!! How to you create something like it?? I want to make one and have some idea, but where do you get some of the supplies?