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 Vivarium help!

ok so i want to setup a vivarium..and idk where to get plastic egg crate..plus if anyone here has done it please help me and give me some tips....thanks!
-chris
06/28/08  01:35pm

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   Message To: C.cyber   In reference to Message Id: 1776554


 Vivarium help!

I take it that you are doing a false bottom with water under? You are wanting a large filtered water area rather than a bowl. There is much discussion as well as building threads with step by step pictures on dendroboard. The eggcrate is found in the lighting dept at home improvement stores.

Now if you don’t need water under the whole thing you can just use a drainage layer system which is easier. You can still have the water area. You would just use the gravel or leca (hydroton clay ball) and fill the bottom of the tank with it, holding back an area for your water area, using large wood pieces or rocks. That way the water flows under the whole thing but you don’t have to construct and cut the eggcrate. You then use either vinyl screen or landscape paper on top of the gravel, then several inches of soil. You don’t want the water to go within 1/2" of the screen or paper otherwise it will wick up into your soil and create a swamp.

A good beginner filter/pump is the Tetra reptofilter, you just sit it in a couple inches of water and it flows out the top, removable filters, and just stack rock around it.

Seriously check out dendroboard tank building/setups area.
06/28/08  03:35pm

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   Message To: Rrrragdoll   In reference to Message Id: 1776668


 Vivarium help!

ive tried to get on to dendroboard..and i have bad luck with it......thank you soo much..the only question i have is....im just confused about the water pump/filter......will a water pump filter the water? and can i make a waterfall out of the filter you recomended?..thank you!! i appreciate it!
06/29/08  12:50am

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   Message To: C.cyber   In reference to Message Id: 1777246


 Vivarium help!

No a pump is a pump, a filter is a filter. Some are two in one, like the one I listed, Tetra Reptofilter, plus it is relatively inexpensive. It’s about $20 and the filters are a 3pak for under $10.

Basically you just sit it in the tank and you can stack rock, wood or whatever around it. Just make sure you can get to the top easily to change out the filters. You can silicone the rocks so that they don’t move so much if you need to.

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06/29/08  10:58am


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