55 Corner tank : first questions

[creatureman]

Here is the base.

More over the weekend...

[creatureman]

first I am not sure how to upload anything other than a thumbnail so check out my facebook pageLogin | Facebook for easier pics.

Nothing fancy or new to most of you yet. Posting FYI and in case anybody sees any major problems.

I wasn't sure about the waters effect on the moss under the water table, but took a shot anyway.

Next question has to do with the foam BG and the piping for the water feature. Should I put the hose in the BG egg crate first? Or crave through it later. I am really crappy with silicon and foam around the house, so I worry about being messy and wrecking the hose?!?

Also looking for suggestions on running the water as a stream and building terraces for the froggies to use. Water feature will start almost dead centre - 12" up from FB.

Pic 1 - drying the moss - BC style
Pic 2 - silicon II brown
Pic 3 - testing fogger and pump
Pic 4 - scraping slate tiles
Pic 5 - attaching to front of FB

[creatureman]

Clearly I am not technology inclined for the pics. so here are two more of the FB in place.

[Chu'Wuti]

You can upload the photos to photobucket.com, save them, then click on the link for posting them to forums & copy it, then post it here. The facebook link works for me because I'm on facebook, but it won't work for anyone who isn't on facebook--and believe it or not, some people here don't use facebook!

I'm no expert on this kind of thing, but I'm enjoying watching the build process, so keep it up!

[Gold3nku5h]

are you sure thats moss in the first pic? i'd like to see a nice closeup there. REAL CLOSE!
and pic 4, what are you guys messing with? is that a bubble bag? i didn't know you guys
had that much extra stuff to be glueing it to the sides of your tank, why dont you ship some
of that stuff down here to oklahoma?

[creatureman]

Chu - Thx, I will try that next. But really, how do people communicate with out facebook?

Gold - I was acutely aware of what the neighbours may have been thinking, especially after it was dry and I was storing into a big paper bag. lol. Pic 4 is cleaning the glue and paper backing off some slate tiles I had left over from doing the fireplace. I figured there was no way that stuff would be any good for the froggies.

[froggsong]

lmao... This reminds me, again of one of the common artificial plants they make for terrariums... Looks just like pot... I'm tellin' you, someone should start a growing operation in a vive and mix in some of the fake plants with it... That way, if anyone wanted to take a closer look, you could pull out a fake piece to show them up close, lol... Then when you're drying it, you can just claim it is wet sphagnum (as long as they don't look too close or have a nose... rofl).