Water Snake Viv Build Log

[Quack]

I am building a viv for my northern water snake. The tank is a 75 gallon. I wont be setting it up with live plants because she would tear everything up. Im making a background out of GS and quickset, a waterfall, and a heater to keep the water at about 78F.

This is Bertha, my water snake:


Here is the tank with the divider siliconed in(I've been taking pictures with my ipod until I find my camera, so they're a little blurry):


I used contact paper so I could take the background out to cover it with quickset. Here Ive laid down the contact paper:


I used up about 2 and a half cans of GS to cover the back of the tank. You can see when I ran out of the first can:


That's all I have for now as I just did the GS today! I'll be sure to post more pics as I go along!

[KBSnakes]

Nice. Looking forward to seeing more. Im gonna be working on a live substrate of grass for a corn snake vivarium. Hopefully start that soon.

[Quack]

Thanks! live grass in a viv sounds awesome!

[Quack]

I took the GS background out of the tank but, I had to cut it in half to fit out because of the crossbar in the middle of the tank. It came right out because of the contact paper. If I were to do this again though, I would use something like butcher paper because the contact paper was a pain to get inside. Here are the background pieces out of the tank:


I had the trim the pieces so they would fit after I apply the quickset.Then, I started carving the peices:



Later this today, I'm going out to get a pump, Styrofoam, quickset(if I dont already have some), a lamp, and a bulb. So, here is the tank with the background in it:

[deaconce]

looking good so far, can't wait for the rest of the progress to unfold.

[Quack]

I thought it was about time I posted some of my progress. I started on the waterfall. I made it out of Styrofoam, I made it in two pieces to access the filter and heater. I will be covering it with quickset(sorry for bad picture quality, I found my camera but now can't find the cord):


The background curled up because I dont think I let it cure long enough. So, I decided to scrap the GS and make the background of of styrofoam, also:

The filter I am using is a Zoo Med 318 turtle clean filter, it has a dual intake and 30-55gph(not my picture):

The heater I am using is a Tetrafauna Aquatic reptile Heater, it has a thermostat preset to 78F(my water snake likes to soak in warm water)(again, not my picture):

I'm hoping to get quickset within a few days, so Ill be making more progress.

[Ma77hew7]

That sucks you had to scrap the first background. If you haven't thrown it away yet keep it. You never know if you can chop it up and use it later. I like the waterfall layout...

[Quack]

Thanks! I never throw away big scraps, you never know when they'll come in handy!

[deaconce]

I have a large box with everything used in prior vives. tons of stuff

[Klowne]

That's going to be a great tank, can't wait to see more pictures!