220 gallons vivarium from start to end

[Gabou20]

Hey guys!

I love this forum and I've been wanting to post this for a while. No waiting, you get to see the entire journal NOW! Isn't that great? :P

There's a lot of pictures coming.

If you have any questions don't be shy, and since this viv as been running for a few months I can point out the issues now.

Click on the pictures to see them bigger (and better quality). Enjoy!

So while I was waiting for the tank itself, I was very excited and did whatever I could do without the tank. First I did all the wiring for the fans, and built this support, which is in the background.







Then I bought a cool mist humidifier and pimped it.





I also bought a sump and a pump, and plugged the tubes and stuff.





Then I bought a herpkeeper, and built a little house to protect the humidity/temp probe. This protects the probe well but I'm afraid it changes the values, especially for humidity.







Then I cleaned some wood with bleech.



You can imagine how thrilled I was when I got the tank!



It was already drilled. First thing I did is put the connector in the holes and then put a layer of black silicone on the back. There is one hole for the drain, one for the pump, one for the humidifier and the big one in the center in for ventilation. The fans are not far above so they can pull air from there.





While this was drying, I drilled the mistking holes one the top pieces. I added 2 ventilation holes at the non-background end.



Then came my very not favorite part : building the false bottom. Since I didn't want to see what<s underneath it, I built it so there would be a little space between the sides of the false bottom and the glass. That way I could put some fish tank rocks in the space.



I added these PVC tubes for support.



I then put all this in the tank, along with false bottom substrate from Josh's frog.