Quote Originally Posted by Kellbri View Post
I would love a do it yourself section cause i have been looking for a forum that someone might have posted on how to do a background conversion for a tank. I have a 20 long that i converted into an upright terrarium and now i would like to use the great stuff that i have heard about to do a background but i am not sure on how to do it. It would help to see how people have done their tanks.
Check out John's sticky in the vivarium forum about a http://www.frogforum.net/vivarium-te...struction.html. It includes pictures of an expanding foam background construction. Or google "greatstuff vivarium background" and you'll get a pile of examples, instructions and videos.

Quote Originally Posted by deranged chipmunk View Post
Another forum i belong to has a massive Do It Yourself thread. It's not broken up into sections and yes, there are multiple posts of the same stuff, but that's why there's a search button. i think breaking something like that up into subsections will start to get overly confusing. But since we're talking about a new section, why not a plant section? Or did i miss it somewhere?
Plant stuff often gets asked in the vivarium forum. A plant sub-forum under vivariums might be useful, but the vivarium forum doesn't really move super fast as it is.



Instead of dividing things up into more overlapping forums, I'd rather see more quality Do It Yourself/Plant/etc articles. This has the advantage of information that gets frequently referenced being readily available. For example Don's http://www.frogforum.net/vivarium-te...se-bottom.html should be under Frog Forum - Vivarium Articles but doesn't appear to have made it (I suspect due to time constraints then being forgotten about). And yes, I realize that if I'm going to suggest things like this I should be prepared to contribute instead of meekly staring at my feet like I'm currently doing.