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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by Kelfezond[/i] [br]So my new viv is almost ready, I have a few pictures I'll upload later but until it's 100% done it doesn't look very specialy, just thought I'd mention a few things I've added which I think are kinda cool. First is her water bowl, I've cut out the depth of it into a large cube of polystyerene, we place the bowl into the poly, silicone the gaps around the top, paint the cube in grout, paint and finally a sealer to help water resist it and cover the grout from the snakes to avoid any ingestion. The cube is the exact width of the viv so it completely covers the last part of floor space, to counter it taking up so much space we have built a platform that attached to the poly-cube and sits about 1ft on top of the water bowl, this allows them to still get inside the water bowl, have some shade and cover while in there but also sit ontop on their platform if they want the room. The platform can be detached for cleaning and to allow access to clean the water bowl. To empty and refill the water bowl would prove difficult so on the side of the cube which is against the viv wall we have drilled a large hole and attached a tap onto the bowl so when the tap is turned on the water drains through a pipe into a bucket (or several) to avoid having to remove the whole thing. As the viv was built the polywood which holds it all together and acts as walls was built over a frame which gave us 25mm gaps on each wall, we have filled these with polystyerene for both insulation and decoration, with scrap polystyerene we have made loads of fake rocks and glued them to the polystyerene walls (in the hope they won't be pulled down) this has all been painted and sealed again to stop contact with the snakes. This should really help keep heat as the viv is 5 feet tall (7.5 feet long and 2.5 feet wide) and it also looks quite good at this stage :) The heating will be done with a ceramic bulb and a guard but I will have additional lighting in the form of LED's in key locations so the snakes are still visible but at night time the light will be dim enough to give them some security. [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.