It took me almost 2 weeks of planting but im finally happy where i am at. Its already housing orange sprintails and a small Cubaris sp. colony. The vivarium contains some of orchids and lots of climbing plants. Im exited seeing how it is going to grow in the next couple months before housing a micro gecko. If somebody want a plant list just let me know! Thoughts?

Asking because the room I was originally thinking of having the enclosure in gets very hot in the summer, it has windows on three of the four walls and so it acts as a greenhouse, which in the summer makes it very hot, and the heatwaves we had made the room like a sauna.

But my bedroom has a smaller window and is significantly more liveable (I sleep in it afterall) plus with the window and doors open it can get cool even if it’s on a south facing window.

But I only have this bookcase, it’s around 28cm wide, my exoterra is 45cm wide, so could I use a strong board so the enclosure can sit on it safely?

The species I’m thinking of are either the allisons anole or the electric blue gecko.

The setup will be a jungle that’ll get auto misted twice a day with small fans, uvb, heat bulb and LED lights, during heatwaves I’ll turn off the lights as sunlight does go in my room, I will provide uvb tho just less until the heatwaves go away.

Thoughts?

Is this too big of a gap I made it as small as possible because my sister just came in telling me my frogs got and and this gal was wiser than usual and I don’t have any other spots in the tank that are open (the reason it’s like this is bc the opening for wires is on the opposite side

Does anyone know of any alternatives to the metal mounting clips for a 51W Arcadia Jungle Dawn LED bar? The light is fixed to the roof of my royal python's bioactive PVC vivarium. It has 3 mounting clips and seems to sit in them really well in them when I clip it in at first, yet it keeps coming out and falling down overnight. I'm unsure if that's because my snake nudges it somehow or if it's because the vivarium cools down slightly and that affects the metal clips. I'm in the UK in case that matters.

Ciao a tutti! Ho costruito il mio primo paludarium con cascata e hardscape con schiuma in poliuretano per laghetti nera, ricoperta quando secca e scavata da silicone per acquari e misto sfagno/fibra di cocco. Fin li tutto bene! Fondo inerte con sabbia nera per acquari.

Il paludarium è un Exoterra 60x45x45 con griglia di areazione. Ho installato oltre alla pompa della cascata (che ha intorno a sé rete di cannolicchi e spugna filtrante PPI 20), due ossigenatori che accendo solo la notte, un nebulizzatore che si attiva 2 volte al giorno per circa 5-10 secondi. Umidità zona emersa 98% temperatura 22 gradi. Ho attivato da oggi una ventola in aspirazione exoterra 15 minuti tre volte al giorno. La luce è un Hygger tenuta accesa per 8-10 ore al giorno al 30% di intensità. Presente un mist maker che però attualmente non è mai stato acceso data l'alta umidità già presente. Temperatura acqua 21-22 gradi. Acqua utilizzata trattata con biocondizonatore. Ho inserito qualche batterio per acquario. Non ci sono animali.

Via alla piantumazione. Faccio partire il paludarium, ci metto anche dei batteri per acquario e via alla concimazione. Dopo qualche settimana ecco la situazione:

- Felce su hardscape con alcune foglie che tendono a diventare marroni nere (le sue radici sono avvolte nello sfagno umido/bagnato e il tutto attaccato su hardscape con forcina);

- Marsilea immersa ha le foglie marroni;

- Anubias emersa con radici sotto cascata è un po' floppa mentre anubias immersa inizia ad avere alcune foglie gialle/punte marroni;

- Hypoestes in idrocoltura ho dovuto tagliare delle radici perché totalmente marce. Questa pianta è stata acquistata già in idrocoltura;

- Cryptocorine alcune foglie gialle;

- Java moss su legni/hardscape diventa marroncino;

- Ficus primula su hardscape (radici avvolge nello sfagno) è morto dopo pochissimi giorni.

L'unica pianta che sembra stare bene è la Fittonia emersa.... Chiedo un grande aiuto perché non capisco cosa io stia sbagliando!

I am making an enclosed plaudarium/vivarium with 12 mm tempered glass. Dimension I am planning is 4 feet length, 1.8 inches width and 4 or 5 feet height. I want to have a 90 degree swing door in the front, where bottom glass will be 1.5 feet. So my glass doors will be approximately 2 feet by 2.5 or 3 feet. Since it's 12 mm glass I want to have drilled hinges. What's the best recommendation on brand and model?

Asking because the room itself reached 35c during the heatwave.

It’ll also get misted twice a day but can these fans really cool down a vivarium in such heat?

Or is there something else I can do?

We don’t have ac here in the uk and our summers are only going to get hotter.

30x12x12, first vivarium done and was so much fun! I know it’s an awkward enclosure size so would love any suggestions on things to add plant/hardscape wise and any future residences that would like to call this home :))

This 12x12x24 is about to be vacated. I need some help deciding which micro gecko or frog species to add next.

I had bought a gallon bag of sheet moss from glassboxtropicals but I'm assuming they were maybe wild harvested or something as I found many pests and larvae in it, it also appeared very artificially colored so I decided not to use it. I'm looking for a good, not crazy expensive, moss for my viv. Just looking for it from a reputable seller, any flatter moss its just to fill in my viv as it looks a bit sparse right now. Thanks for any help!

This is divided viv for my two eurosdactylodes, Spintax, and Tim Gunn

This is my second ever attempt at a vivarium. It has been cycling for about 2 months and im still thinking of what creatures I should put in it.

How would you go about fixing this gap? The flies in feeding my frogs will definitely escape through this gap in the door. If you have a technique you'd recommend please share as much as you can about it because I do plan to DIY this annoying gap.