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Before I go into any details I will first shortly introduce myself.
I am Alex a 20 year old student teacher english from the Netherlands.
I currently house 7 geckos here of varying species and I plan to expand my collection with some frogs aswell.
I currently have a 20ish gallon exo terra terrarium with a cave gecko in it, it used to house crested geckos but they turned out to be both males and I could not keep 1 and trade the other for a female so I brought them both to a zoo type reptile store.
But onto the build!
This will be my first build wherein I will do everything myself.
I have some experience with a naturalistic leopard gecko terrarium but this build will go above and beyond what I accomplished there.
The tank:
It is a 110 gallon (arboreal orientated) Lucky Reptile herp-tarrium, it is still unclear what will be housed in there.
The tank will have a small (5 gallonish) water area and a waterfall.
It will have all live plants ofcourse.
For the background I am planning the great stuff and silicone background with a twist: I want to try a greatstuff background method where I will paint the greatstuff and then cover it with Yacht varnish and press in the fernroot and eco earth mixture.
I am yet unsure wether or not that would work but I have had succes with a method like that in a fishtank I made for someone.
After some research I aquired peat based plant pots which I will use in the background, these will give my plants some nutrient value and look better than the black pots in my opinion.
I will use a false bottom made from eggcrate ( hard to come by in the Netherlands btw), and I am currently constructing my own rainsystem made from a campervan waterpump and a garden sprinkler/drip system.
The waterfall will multiple drops and it will be powered by a 600 liter per hour pump, I am still figuring out how to hide the fogger and the pumps but they will most probably be housed in PVC tubes which I will turn into fake trees or something like that.
Since it is quite a large tank (in my opinion), and I am still not a 100% sure and what will be housed in the tank I am unsure on what plants will be in it.
I have bought some oakleaf ficus and a golden pothos plant, I will also plant quite a few bromeliads and an umbrella plant.
As far as lighting goes, I have 2 uvb t5 lights from Lucky reptile and 2 halogen sun spots, this will be complemented by a bio light t5 bulb and night light LED lighting.
I have enjoyed reading all the construction threads on this forum and have decided to join it because of people like GRIMM who inspired me a great deal with his youtube videos.
I will include regular picture updates as soon as I have the tank ( may 1st).
I am Alex a 20 year old student teacher english from the Netherlands.
I currently house 7 geckos here of varying species and I plan to expand my collection with some frogs aswell.
I currently have a 20ish gallon exo terra terrarium with a cave gecko in it, it used to house crested geckos but they turned out to be both males and I could not keep 1 and trade the other for a female so I brought them both to a zoo type reptile store.
But onto the build!
This will be my first build wherein I will do everything myself.
I have some experience with a naturalistic leopard gecko terrarium but this build will go above and beyond what I accomplished there.
The tank:
It is a 110 gallon (arboreal orientated) Lucky Reptile herp-tarrium, it is still unclear what will be housed in there.
The tank will have a small (5 gallonish) water area and a waterfall.
It will have all live plants ofcourse.
For the background I am planning the great stuff and silicone background with a twist: I want to try a greatstuff background method where I will paint the greatstuff and then cover it with Yacht varnish and press in the fernroot and eco earth mixture.
I am yet unsure wether or not that would work but I have had succes with a method like that in a fishtank I made for someone.
After some research I aquired peat based plant pots which I will use in the background, these will give my plants some nutrient value and look better than the black pots in my opinion.
I will use a false bottom made from eggcrate ( hard to come by in the Netherlands btw), and I am currently constructing my own rainsystem made from a campervan waterpump and a garden sprinkler/drip system.
The waterfall will multiple drops and it will be powered by a 600 liter per hour pump, I am still figuring out how to hide the fogger and the pumps but they will most probably be housed in PVC tubes which I will turn into fake trees or something like that.
Since it is quite a large tank (in my opinion), and I am still not a 100% sure and what will be housed in the tank I am unsure on what plants will be in it.
I have bought some oakleaf ficus and a golden pothos plant, I will also plant quite a few bromeliads and an umbrella plant.
As far as lighting goes, I have 2 uvb t5 lights from Lucky reptile and 2 halogen sun spots, this will be complemented by a bio light t5 bulb and night light LED lighting.
I have enjoyed reading all the construction threads on this forum and have decided to join it because of people like GRIMM who inspired me a great deal with his youtube videos.
I will include regular picture updates as soon as I have the tank ( may 1st).