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Jordan B
09-07-04, 08:51 PM
Hi all,
After alot of time and money here it is. It's a forty gallon tank, 36 L, 16 H, 15 W. I had a drainage hole cut in the bottom, which has a tube that goes into a bucket. The first layer is terra-lite, which is used for drainage. Then, a substrate divider of fiberglass window-screen. After that, coco bedding mixed with dyna-grow liquid fertilizer and then tree fern fiber which creates better areation and drainage. After that is a layer of damp sphagnum moss, then pillow moss on that. It has a bunch of live plants which are small now but will grow. It's also got lichen, indian almonds leaves, logs, etc. to make it look real. Well, here it is, what do you all think?:D

Sorry about the quality on this one.
http://ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/5824IMGP1160_2_-thumb.JPG

http://ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/5824IMGP1163_2_-thumb.JPG

http://ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/5824IMGP1167_2_-thumb.JPG

http://ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/5824IMGP1159_2_-thumb.JPG

http://ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/5824IMGP1151_2_-thumb.JPG

Thanks for looking, Jordan
Derrick
09-07-04, 09:06 PM
http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/5824IMGP1167_2_.JPG
http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/5824IMGP1163_2_.JPG
http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/5824IMGP1160_2_.JPG
http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/5824IMGP1159_2_.JPG
http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/5824IMGP1151_2_.JPG

cool stuff
Jordan B
09-07-04, 09:26 PM
Thanks!
Alberto
09-08-04, 12:18 PM
sweet looking setup! How many frogs are you going to keep in it?
Tim and Julie B
09-08-04, 12:27 PM
What is on the back wall?

Man I'd live there.....to bad it isn't big enough.:D

Nice looking tank! TB
Brent Strande
09-08-04, 02:46 PM
Sa wheeet!

Looks great man!
Jordan B
09-08-04, 10:43 PM
Thanks for the compliments. Alberto, I'm starting with two dendrobates tinctorius. Tim, it's a Barry Bonds poster on the back wall if thats what your thinking of lol!:D It says "Fee Fie Foe Fum another Barry Bonds homerun". LOL (it was only a $2.50 poster so what the hell). Tim and Brent and Alberto, do you guys have darts?

Jordan
Tim and Julie B
09-08-04, 10:46 PM
No I was talking about the mossy looking stuff on the back of the tank. Bonds hey ...... that is a lame saying lol.

No I don't have any Dart frogs....everything else though. :D
Jordan B
09-08-04, 10:59 PM
Yup it seroiusly is a lame saying lol. The stuff in the second picture on the back of the tank?
Brent Strande
09-08-04, 11:01 PM
no frogs here... yet

First branch off of snakes will be into cresties if it happens at all...
Jordan B
09-08-04, 11:02 PM
Woops the stuff on the back of the tank in the second pic are epiphytic bromeliads, or air bromeliads. I stuch them there with silice. The genus is tillansia.

Jordan
Jordan B
09-08-04, 11:03 PM
Cresties are cool.
Alberto
09-09-04, 07:40 AM
Jordan, no I dont have any Darts yet, but when I do, I'm definately keeping them in something like your viv.
Brent Strande
09-09-04, 11:13 AM
I think that TB is wondering what is covering the ENTIRE back of the terrarium, it looks like a brown rug kinda thing. I can't tell what it is either but it looks great!
Jordan B
09-09-04, 09:10 PM
Oh, thats coco fiber backround. It's made from coconut husk fiber, you can get it here http://www.blackjungle.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Store_Code=BJTS&Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=B
for a 10 gallon, 20 gallon, or a 2' by 6' roll to cut yourselt. It's cool stuff, the epyphitic plants just need to be silicone onto it and then they grow on there own.

Jordan
kill3r843
09-12-04, 08:13 AM
it didnt work for me
Jordan B
09-12-04, 08:05 PM
Hmm it stopped working for me to.