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Originally Posted by albert_dao
Whoa, that looks like it took monster amounts of work! Very showy!
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I was going to set up a vivarium and researched what a vivarium actually was. It's an environment for sustaining animal and plant life, which is not what I wanted considering we have three reefs, a 90g ball python habitat as well as a large indoor finch aviary
A terrarium sustains only plant life, which was more suitable for our needs. So, long story short, no animals in a terrarium.
Albert, Yup, lots of work which is why it took so long
Most of it was done on the kitchen counter. Pieces of glass were measured and cut according to the layout of the hex tank. Each piece of glass had washed river rock siliconed into place. Once the various pieces of glass were siliconed together, the rest of the work had to be done standing on a chair and leaning down into the tank.
There's a false bottom to facilitate the waterfall. Landscaping fabric covers the areas of the false bottom where the potting soil and plants are. And some dummy, who shall remain nameless, dumped a bit of potting soil into the water while planting the plants. Now this dummy, okay it was me
, has to do weekly water changes to get rid of the tea-coloured water.
All in all, the work was worth it and we now have a beautifully lit area in our hallway that would otherwise be dark
