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here is mine: ABG (or atlanta botanical gardens) substrate is probably the best available. with a little research you will learn how to make it or you can order it from sites. Pangea is a great place to learn about cresteds as it's all rhacs over there. NEherpetoculture is an awesome...

super craigslist find! oh yeah. $30. doesn't list dimensions in the ad, but tomorrow's my day off and i'm swooping this up. then it's construction time! don't know yet what animals will be housed in this, will depend on the actual dimensions. but i definitely would rather do a...

you people are missing the point. i know to not let the temps get above 80. i was going to use a low-output LED so the temps of the lights are moot. my main question is can i use a low-output green LED for night-viewing w/o affecting either the gecko's night/day schedule, or the plants...

thanks all- so i know she's still a bit small to put her in here permanently, but i wanted to see how she would react to it. she seems to love it. crawling/jumping all over, hiding in the leaves. got some funny pics of her chilling on the sanserverias: this one cracks me up-

so i decided on tillandsias placement and mounted them. cleared out the plants i won't be using in this viv atm and put down the live moss. i kinda doubt the moss is going to do well or even survive in a crestie viv, but we'll see. anyway, looks a lot better now. what do you think...

so i have a crestie in a temp tank and am pretty much done building her larger planted viv. she mostly sleeps during the day. but at night is very active. though i can hear her jumping around, it's hard to actually see what she's up to. my question is do cresties not recognize red light...

ok, so i finally got over the bad silicon & went to work on the tank. got as much of the bad crap out that i could. tested a small section before going doing the whole thing & when it worked, i went ahead and did the rest of the tank. after a few days cure-time, cleaned it out, & put in the...

THOROUGHLY discouraged. put on some latex gloves, grabbed some paper towel and started wiping the silicon/cocofiber to remove any uncured or possibly bad silicon. i'd say about 85% came away. way more than i expected. impossible to get all of it out of all the millions of crooks and crannies of...

yes, it's possible to make it removable, but it's difficult. what i've seen people do is line the glass with wax paper, then build a "frame" out of eggcrate light diffusers as a base for the GS to go onto. the only problem is GS kinda shrinks as it cures, so it pulls the walls in as it cures &...

going to mask off & spray paint black the areas that have exposed "guts"-

QUESTION: so this is my first time doing the silicon/cocofiber action & i am noticing that some of the silicon refuses to cure properly. it just stays kinda mushy. has anyone ever experienced this before? -starting to regret not doing clay/kittylitter BG-

need to do a little touch-up of the silicon & cocofiber, but-

hey guys, time for a new build! last one was a custom dry desert build for a leopard gecko. this one is going to be a tropical planted viv for either just one male crestie, or maybe a pair of female cresties. after surfing CL for months looking for a deal on a terrarium or appropriate aquarium...

thanks! i'm sure she'll be quite content to have that nice big viv to herself. thanks, but i'm aware that only females may possibly be housed together, that they must be close to the same size, and of quarantine for any newcomers. i just wonder what people do when they get a pair of females to...

well the pair i was interested in actually had a size difference of about 10 grams, plus i guess one of them was already flighty & has had issues being housed with other geckos. so i just ended up getting one of them. she's going to have a nice planted 18x18x24 to herself-