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I went out and bought some "LED Pot lights" from Home depot. for about 60$ they come in a set of 3 and you can also daisy chain an additional light. for 60$ i bought 2 sets of 3 and 2 additional singles. OR..... you can go onto Amazon and just get some LED light strips for really cheap...

+2 on the soldering iron, its fast and easy. though it does smell a bit, make sure you're in a ventilated area.

Like all my driftwood/hardwood answers, an effective way of killing off organism in the wood, is to boil it. or if you can get lucky, autoclave the wood and infact that would be much preferred over boiling it. you gotta get heat to the center of the wood to kill off everything, just in case...

forget it. i'll be lucky if i can keep up on buying crickets for my Ts this year. but we'll see.

ONLY GET PURE SILICONE. and especially only get silicone that is aquarium safe for fish. seeing you live in ontario you'll have a home hardware in your town. go there and get pure silicone, it'll be clear. make sure you're doing Research. i know some silicone chaulking will leech out...

If you're gonna use any wild sticks or branches or pieces of wood, please boil them in water for at least 1/2hr, bake them in the oven at 250F, this way the heat gets to the core of the wood. also wanna stay away from any wood that has natural oils that permeate, you dont want the T to be...

you can easily just make these out of pink foam board. i'm guessing he used little chunks and shaped them. then just apply some acrylic paint to them with an acrylic sealer. tedious if you ask me but could be fun :)

BTW this is the idea i had for the waterfall. i had a friend do a quick photoshop of how i kinda wanted to have it set up.

first of all congrats on your stirmi. second of all, 180gal is too big for a stirmi. if you're custom making your tank i wouldnt even make it more than a 50 gal. i wouldnt even worry about a water feature. you dont see a stirmi near running water. but thats up to you. a water feature can...

thank you for the kind replies. not sure on what it was gonna be really. or what it was gonna house. all i know is, i was gonna put fish into the aquarium portion of the tank. i was thinking maybe more dart frogs (leucomela) . but i would have had to put some serious plants protruding out...

Just letting you all know, this build is on hold indefinitely. i just moved into a new place and i dont have the room to put it anywhere. currently right now its down in the basement but i have no tools or any money to continue building it at this time. i still wanna finish it but its just...

another small update: had to mock up the whole thing again to make sure everything is square. one piece of plywood was cut smaller than expected, dunno what happen there but i think i can get another piece cut, we'll see. i mocked up more pieces of acrylic to show you all how its all going...

UPDATE: sooooo i started to work on the stands. these stands are based off of an aquarium design and hold ALOT of weight. i COULD add in more support but it would just be overkill. No glue involved, the whole assembly will be held by screws, glue isnt going to hold up your tank. the...

size can vary depending on the size of tarantula being used, whether they are a burrower, if they stay in one spot or wander around. thickness of the panels will also depend on the size of the tank. but it should range anywhere from 1/4" to 3/8" a good sized enclosure (say a 10gal tank)...

Small update: i needed to mock up the plywood with the acrylic. to measure the 2x4 frame. so in the midst of doing this i took 3 pics of what its sorta gonna look like. i'm still waiting on 3 more acrylic pieces to be cut then i can start assembly. here's the pics I had to actually...

nope thats actually a pic from a place in Guild Wars, the original game. the place in the game is called "Riven Earth" so if you wanna google it, its "Guild Wars Riven Earth Waterfall" :) the problem that i'm gonna run into is the heads of the waterfall, cuz if i dont get em right, then...

I just wanna point out that this build is NOT going to be for a tarantula lol. i am putting this build thread in here cuz i know you all can appreciate a big build like this one :) as for inhabitants. well i'm definitely putting in fish lol. then i'm also going to try and put in some...

hey guys. thought i'd tell you about my upcoming build. it'll be a 180 degree 160gal drop-off paludarium. going to try and incorporate a waterfall in this one. complete with upper land portion that'll have a big piece of drift jutting out like a "horn" This week will probably be getting...

ok here is where i come in lol there's a product called polygem http://www.polygem.com/ its completely safe, they use it in zoo's and you can make and mold some pretty amazing backdrops. this stuff is ace! and i highly recommend it. people use this stuff for Dart Frog enclosures and DF's...

well if its just wood that you're using. try and get a tub and some REALLY hot water even boil it if you can. place the wood in there for at least a 1/2hr. chlorine will not completely be removed after you soak the wood. so it could be harmful to the animals. i've heard of people getting...