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 Great Stuff 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 Great Stuff to cover the back of the tank. You can see when I ran out of the first can:
I took the Great Stuff background out of the tank but, I had to cut it in half to fit out because of the bar crossing 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:
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