Vivarium for A.mavortium.

[Jed]

have you made a door?

if you have.. please elaborate on how you made it.. looking to build a custom viv and its all figures out except the doors..

Nice viv!

Jed.

[grius]

Originally Posted by Jed

have you made a door?

if you have.. please elaborate on how you made it.. looking to build a custom viv and its all figures out except the doors..

Nice viv!

Jed.

Hi Jed, and thanks!

Are you talking about the vivarium front opening and if i have a door or glass opening? sorry but i dont understand.

This stones toked me quite a while to get good, and i made many mistakes and was almost about to just let it be until i come up with a sulution that is to hard for me to explain right now.

The largest stone to the left is also coloured(not seen in the picture hehe) And they are not that grey as in the photo.

[Jed]

Yeah, the front opening door, how do you make it?

[grius]

Originally Posted by Jed

Yeah, the front opening door, how do you make it?

I use glass doors on glide strip,the usual

[grius]

Update.


I want to be sure water dont stay in the bottom so i saw many holes. The only thing i need now is 2st T-connection for those tubes.


I also had to place some pvc pipes under false bottom thanks to the labyrinth pattern under the balcont floor were water could have stayed.


This may not look that good But it works to cool down the tank, T5 fluorescent lamp give some heat. I made it with 50mm cellplastic, but will cover all sides and the roof in same material as the vivarium so it looks better. The box is messured for a hammar plastic box 34x25x16cm lxwxh to fitt whit frozen water.


I have spend about 120euro on silicone so far and will need 2st more tubes.

Now i have carved two extra pot holes and cover the inside with silicon, i thought it might be a good ide if i have to take them out some day and not happen to skratch up foam inside. There are also insect net fixed for drainage.

Pond im working on, nothing special but it will look better then a water bowl, and i can easily empty it.


This litle plastic thing will aggregate dirt/subsrate that tigers might bring into the water.. I left some space for a cork/lid..


And the backgound poster. I have not got it printed yet but i hope it will turn out something like this

Regards.

[Darktoad]

Good idea with the simulated trees by having sawn off trunks for a side view. That is completely new to me.

[grius]

Originally Posted by Darktoad

Good idea with the simulated trees by having sawn off trunks for a side view. That is completely new to me.

Hi Darktoad.
Yes you can do so much when creat a landscape. I have alwas thought it looks natural with three from bottom to top in terrariums, and i have used this in both large and smaller cages.

[grius]

I did a test to see so everything work as i want with the hole water drain and tube. And it do.

YouTube - TomasSyrsa's Channel

[grius]

Time for an update

First i have to tell you that my background poster idea is destroyed! it only gave the tank a more artificial look. So i will not use any background, this is much better.


I know, that box just looks stupid, but when i have cover it in the same material as the terrarium it would look okey.

So now the terrarium are almost done and i only have too buy some wood(Oak) angel trim to cover all those ugly plywood edges. I placed two more tree trunks on right side which gave it a much mor4e forest slope look!


And yesterday i went out to buy some LED for night light. That turned
out perfect really, and the glas surfase are pretty cool so no extra heat there. But of curse it have to paint it darker (blue/green light i think) and for that i use acrylic as i have done before

http://www.jula.se/led-spotlights-3-pack-128394

I lowered the light on the camera before i took thise night pictures, but still i got more light then in real life( you can se that on the stones )

Well, i can start furnishing on friday the day before reptil expo, and on sunday the tigers moving in after a long waiting I will use ferns from the forest here. They survive inside in a terrarium environment i know now, so that is just great!

[beckdg]

looks fantastic, grius! the only thing i can see that it's missing is roots but it's not necessary.
are you planning on covering the intake/exhaust tubes on your box also? i would be curious as to how you'd go about that if you did.