My girlfriend want to repticon in Chicago this last June and got a bunch of cork flats and cork rounds from glass box tropicals. She loved that booth. And we decide on using a viquarium by tetra fauna to create a land side water side and provide water filtration. We are thinking of two cork bark tree trunks in the back corners with cork round branches extending into the middle with plants potted in the ends. The back wall between the trunks will be a slate like rock wall made from styrofoam. On that rock wall we will try to grow moss using the moss, blender, buttermilk method.
Questions: has anyone tried that method of painting moss on to a wall in a terrarium setting? I've seen it done on wall in open air, but never confined. Does it work?
Second question: what process do I need to follow to make stones or gravel from outside safe for aquarium use? Instead of paying through the nose for large aquarium stone for the land portion of my viquarium I went to landscaper and got a 5 gallon bucket of large gravel for free.