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    Well friends, I have finally gotten around to starting the vivarium.

    I know, it's been way longer than I had said, but a few things popped up since, including a nice 3 week illness. All is improving, so I thought I'd sit down and start getting some parts done.

    Today I started the rock wall. I did a gs foam trial and found I didn't have the control I'd like, so I moved on to cutting the wall layer out of foam by hand. So far, so good.

    Here is the first layer of the wall...


    I'll work on more soon. Time for frog chores .

    Have a good night every one!
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    Awesome Heather! Are you still going with a drip wall?
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    Default Cobalt vivarium - soon to start :)

    Thanks! I'm not sure yet. I'm getting a different image of what I'd like. Since they're even happy in their quarantine tank, I'd almost like to go fairy tail -ish. Just going to keep cutting and see what I come up with. The only thing about the wall is the foam rocks are big. It would take forever to cut small ones. I thought about pushing gravel into the GS foam, but I thought it might be too rough.

    I've found I'm not so fond of the GS foam though. Not enough control. Maybe I'll try it again some time in the future. Is there any other way to control the flow and technique of it?
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    The detail on the rocks is amazing. Nice job. Just a suggestion. You could us the GS foam and break up the rock wall to look like mortar between the rocks.

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    Thanks!

    That would be awesome too.
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    What material is that you are using on the wall?...What type of foam is that? Where do you get it (lowes etc.)? Do you just silicone over it?
    Never seen foam like that used before in place of the great stuff.

    Very cool idea, interested to see how it turns out.

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    That is foam that is used to insulate building. You can find it in the construction materials area of home depot or lowes. It's normally where they keep siding supplies.
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    0.0.10 Phyllobates Vittatus
    0.0.3 Phyllobates Terribilis 'Mint'
    0.0.3 Dendrobates Tinctorius 'Patricia'
    0.0.5 Dendrobates Leucomelas
    0.0.2 Dendrobates Tinctorius 'Powder Blue'
    0.0.2 Ranitomeya Variabilis 'southern'
    0.0.3 Epipedobates Anthonyi 'zarayunga'
    1.2.0 Phyllobates bicolor
    0.0.3 Dendrobates tinctorius 'azureus'
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    0.0.1 Gramastola porteri
    0.2.0 Canines
    1.0.0 Tabby/Maine Coon Mix
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    Quote Originally Posted by deranged chipmunk View Post
    That is foam that is used to insulate building. You can find it in the construction materials area of home depot or lowes. It's normally where they keep siding supplies.
    Thank you for the information, I will remember that when constructing my next vivarium, I have never seen that used before.

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    Yes, that's what it is ^. Thanks Bill .

    I'm more likely going to grout it, though I haven't completely decided yet. I want to be able to paint it.
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    Hi, I'm new here, just wanted to say if you are planing to do a drip wall still, the easy-est way to get even flow along the length of your pipe is to have the holes at the top facing up, the pipe needs to fill completely that way and it will drip evenly along the length rather the more neer the in put, I know this from creating a drip rain system before.
    P.S. nice foam rock's!
    P.P.S the holes can be the same size this way too,there is even pressure at all of them, rather the using back pressure to control flow.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FishChum View Post
    Hi, I'm new here, just wanted to say if you are planing to do a drip wall still, the easy-est way to get even flow along the length of your pipe is to have the holes at the top facing up, the pipe needs to fill completely that way and it will drip evenly along the length rather the more neer the in put, I know this from creating a drip rain system before.
    P.S. nice foam rock's!
    P.P.S the holes can be the same size this way too,there is even pressure at all of them, rather the using back pressure to control flow.
    Awesome! Thanks for the great tip!
    Thanks, about my fake rocks .
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    I ordered my net cups . Yay!
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