Curlytails
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I can buy some things for my cham to help it out or improve its living conditions. What should i get. $100 range
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Goose502
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Show us what you’ve got, and we’ll surely have ideas for what to purchase.
Curlytails
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Goose502
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I recommend you purchase some live plants, more vines, ditch the fake plants, get a t5 fixture, or misting system. I know that totals more than $100, just my recommendations though, get what you can afford. The pet stores don’t tell you that a $25 veiled is gonna require a few hundred dollars worth of enclosure.
Curlytails
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Wasnt 25 bucks
more like $110. Spent well over 500 already. Ill get a t5 when i upgrade him but a misting system sounds like a good idea. The only issue i have with live plants is cleaning waste off them. I would love to have a giant ficus but i cant just pull it out wash it and put it back in.
Goose502
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Look into bioactive enclosures. I haven’t cleaned mine in over a year, just trimmed all the plants every couple weeks. If you spent $500 and all you got was a large zoo med enclosure and what’s in the picture, you got ripped off.Wasnt 25 bucks
Curlytails
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Everything is expensive here
. Bioactive is super cool though. I considered it but i dont know what liner to use. Also whats your clean up crew like.
jamest0o0
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Made this to fit my dragonstrand enclosure with about 2 feet of depth space for my substrate. Stapled the pond liner. Has a drainage hole at the bottom. Going to put a tiny submersible pump in the drainage pan and have it pump the water out the window and to my plants outside.
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Curlytails
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Let the diy beginnnnnn!!!
Curlytails
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He has awesome kits but he doesnt ship here. I love his tree bags but theyre just grow bags. Ill build a box for sure. Ill use plywood to make it look presentable too!
Curlytails
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Do i need a drainage layer like a frog setup or is it ok.
Curlytails
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Sure will.hows this grow light?
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Curlytails
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Can i get a list of what i need please(apart from the box part
jamest0o0
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Yeah a hydroball layer is probably good even with the free drainage through the bottom. There are all kind of drainage methods that work great. I'd listen to anything from John courtney Smith on the cham breeder podcast. He is the man when it comes to bioactive keeping.
Arcadia jungledawns are excellent lights. I would use the jungledawn megaspott 40w bulb.
Arcadia jungledawns are excellent lights. I would use the jungledawn megaspott 40w bulb.
Curlytails
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Ill start gathering resources. What type of soil do you reccomend personally
Curlytails
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Do you guys have any other light options?
