vivarium

I've recently started a triop tank, brine shrimp tank, but I want to acquire a daphnia culture to start producing for my frys. But the petstore I used to get them at lost their lease and closed out. I didn't know this, and I already washed out my daphnia culture cuase of re arrangements. I was...

I'm planning on starting a vivarium and i would like to put a n. ampullaria in it. Why do some plants have HUGE (long) leaves, and others have small leaves? i dont mind the vining nature of the plant, but i would rather have one with small leaves since i've seen vines with small leaves and vines...

I've been buidling a vivarium, but I didn't seal this piece of wood before I permantly foamed it to the background. This wood deals with constant running water, misters, fogs, and its been creating mold. Is der anyway to permantly remove the mold. I can't use any toxic substance, due to living...

Here is a link to a document that I have written for another forum.  I'm open to critique, so if you have any ideas about better methods for accomplishing my hobby then I'm all ears. Once at my home page click on the Acrylic Vivarium Construction Link Take Care, Matthew Corrigan Acrylic...

I was wondering where i can get the best deals on baby veiled chameleons. I live in northern bay area. Ther are good places i know like the east bay vivarium but i'm still kinda looking. This is all just to get a head start i probably won't have enough money till' next year . Francis

You may have known that I have started to build a vivarium. In the vivarium I have a waterfall, that leads to a stream, then eventually to the pond. Using the false bottom method, the pond will always be circulating. In the pond, I have bought some hornworts and java moss, to give it a tropical...

I was thinking about purchasing some Bromeliads, but I would need some pictures, and I was wondering if they have spikes, Some Bromeliads have spikes on the leaf and will be dangerous in my vivarium.

Im setting up a 40 gallon Vivarium for my Firebellied toads. Its half water half land setup. I want to add some cool plant and saw the VFT and though I would consider it. But are these two compatible? I heard that firebellies have alot of skin toxins, but it doesnt seem to hurt the live moss I...

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I am going to be changing my showerstall growing chamber over from greenhouse style (all in pots) to an enormous natural vivarium with most plants mounted to the branches, cocopanel background, etc and some growing in a substrate base with a false bottom. I can get some wood from the Reptile...

I am going to get a Praying Mantis (the kind you find wild in the Eastern U.S.) for my tropical vivarium, but I don't know how to take care of it. Does anybody know how to take care of a Praying Mantis, what plants I should put in with it or not, what stuff I would need for it? Any information...

I'm wondering which Utricularia can be mounted and grown on a mossy log that has water trickling over it's surface constantly in my tropical vivarium. It can be a cooler temp/alpine species as my vivarium gets rather cool in the winter (down to 65*). I really enjoy epiphytic plants but I do not...

A few months ago I got a nice Vrisea "christine" bromiliad and of course it was in bloom (knowing that it's "over" for the mother plant I got one with two small pups on it. I planted this bromiliad in a cork bark tube stuffed with orchid bark and sphagnum moss. Apparently the plant is doing OK...