How do I make my terrariums

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Arachnobaron
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This is how do I make my terrariums. They are all built same way, glass, gilliotine door etc, only diffrent dimentions. This one will be for chromatopelma cyanopubescens, measurments are 30x30x30 cm.

I get oak bark from the woods and dry it over the wood heated cooker:


]On the dried up bark I put brown sillicone on the edges of the bark and press it very good against the back side of the terrarium:




When I do this over whole back side of the terrarium I put lots of heavy rocks on the bark and leave everything for 24 hours so that sillicone can dry up:


After drying for 24 hours, I remove the rocks and I fill the bigger holes in and between the bark parts more sillicone and then I put lot of substrate and press it very firmirly and leave it again to dry up for 24 hours:




After few days of completely drying and leaving it to loose the sillicone smell, I put inn some wood(brenches, hand made logs out of bark, roots etc(in this case 2 brenches so Chromatopelma can web around easier) and I put small river gravel for drainage:






Then I put in peat moss for a substrate and some more decoration like dry grass, live plants...
 

gmrpnk21

Arachnobaron
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That looks GREAT! Did you make a tutorial for making the tanks themselves?
 

Galapoheros

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Looks good to me! I've done about the same with 9x9 glass plates I have in the attic but not with the sliding door, I'll have to think about that one. It took me a while to learn how to cut glass, very simple and easy once I figured it out.
 
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