My Newest Vivarium: 50 Gallon

[jpstod]

Well heres my Newest Vivarium a 50 Gallon Vivarium. I found it for a resonable price of $50.00 on Craigslist. At first I was disappointed because it was suppose to be a 55 Gallon. But still for the price I grabbed it up. It came with some river rock. I threw away the filter system, since I had no need for it.


I found a piece of Wood that was interesting looking, it had character. its well aged and had a place that I thought would be a good planter area

When It is wet the Linchen shows up real good.

and I also got this Mopar wood from Petco.


I used Compost as the substrate. Added the River Rock and added some plants.
Pothos, Broms and a plant I forgot to save the Tag for.

Heres the Unknown plant in the Log I thought would make a good planter.




The Broms


Look a Pup on the Lower Left


Not being artistic and also Lazy. I had part of a waterfall laying around. so I thought I could use it. I may get off my butt and make one myself since theres another part to it and I want to use both in a larger tank I have started to collect matterials for.


So it was finished.


or not, as it seemed. The look wasn't just right. The Cave (fake waterfall) just didn't look right. After a trip to Local stores I found some Aralia I thought would spruse up the Tank a little and I added some more Natural wood and vines.

The Fake Cave doesn't look near as fake after I added the Aralia

Its finished...well sort of. I still have to cut the Lexan for the lids.
Heres the Current full tank shot


You can see my High tech Stand. Just a simple Folding table I got from Lowes. I really wanted the 6ft Table for only $5.00 more than the 4ft but I didn't have the space for it. I will replace the Folding table later with something else. I kept putting off putting it together because I didn't have anything to set it on. I finally gave up and bought the table, will use it BBQing later.

I picked 1/4 inch lexan because its simpler to cut myself and to drill. I plan to drill for the Fogger and a feeding hole. I will have to cut two lids since the tank is dived in two openings.

[Jason]

Looks good.Why did you put the stone on top of the soil? im used to seeing it below, used for a drainage layer in FB construction. What do you plan on putting in there?

[jpstod]

I started out trying to do a pond, and then just gave Up and did the whole tank just to be different.

Its for my two Golden Geckos from Viet Nam