Enclosure/Terrarium Pictures

[HybridReplicate]

Arboreal

This one is based on a Hobby Lobby display case (5.5 x 6.5 x 8.5) and is my first attempt at an arboreal enclosure with minimal substrate. The current occupant is an S calceatum whose previous home was short of ventilation and decoration. (it was a rush build for a 3.5" T which was supposed to be a 1.5" T)

The base is a coco fiber sheet (find it in the hermit crab section) with about an inch of moss, a handful of coco fiber substrate, and a water dish. Along the back are a cork bark tube (open at both ends), a twig, and a section of plastic vine wrapped around the twig.

The vine, twig, and tube were hot glued into the enclosure, and so is the coco fiber sheet.

All in all I am pleased with the look but if I had to do it again I would distress the edges of the fiber sheet and use a vine which wasn't so beat up. (But I am going to wait for critiques before trying again, anyway.)

Mini helmet case? It's a great size. I very much like the interior design!

Construction-wise I worry that there may not be adequate ventilation. I ended up adding a great number of holes after mine was a stagnant bog.it will help with convenience & containment to cut the lid about 1/3 of the way up & install a hinge. @CyclingSam has a tutorial:

Nicely done!

 

[CyclingSam]

Mini helmet case? It's a great size. I very much like the interior design!

Construction-wise I worry that there may not be adequate ventilation. I ended up adding a great number of holes after mine was a stagnant bog.it will help with convenience & containment to cut the lid about 1/3 of the way up & install a hinge. @CyclingSam has a tutorial:

Nicely done!

Here is a little more in-depth tutorial I did if you are interested. These are pretty self explanatory though. making it so the lid can open freely is the only tricky part.

 

[user 666]

Arboreal

Here is my second arboreal enclosure based on a Hobby Lobby display case (5.5 x 6.5 x 8.5). This one has the same basic build as the first, only with more air holes, an extra vine, and a different water dish.

It is going to house an avic which is arriving today.

 

[X3MIST]

10"Wx10"Hx24"L Terrestrial enclosure with magnet locks, hasp locks, drop down door and setup.

 

[HybridReplicate]

10"Wx10"Hx24"L Terrestrial enclosure with magnet locks, hasp locks, drop down door and setup.

Wow. Custom made?

 

[X3MIST]

Wow. Custom made?

Yes

 

[user 666]

This is my second terrestrial "show case" enclosure.

It's based on a Hobby Lobby mini helmet display case (5.5 x 6.5 x 8.5) with about 3" of substrate. There is a lot of moss, parts of 4 different plants from Hobby Lobby, and underneath the plants is a cork bark hide.

This was built for an M robustum. It wasn't suitable for that fossorial species, so I took the plants out and added more substrate. But I didn't want to let this work go to waste.

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[Yolotli]

Terrestrial with leaf litter
Heterometrus petersii
Started experimenting with putting leaf litter on the substrate to better simulate a forest floor.

 

[Zuzu]

Arboreal vivariums for my mantises when they big enough.

First two are exo terra 8 x 8 x 12 inches. The aluminum mesh was replaced with safer fiberglass mesh. Last is an extra large container from mantisplace.
Flowers are fake, but the fern and moss on the floors and the moss on the logs are real!

 

[The Grym Reaper]

Had a couple of old fish tanks without covers lying about and wanted to make a nice display enclosure for my genic, I think it's a 6.5 gallon tank (about 18"x10"x10").
I attached 10mm thick square acrylic rods to the short sides with aquarium silicone, the original glass ledges were uneven so I removed them and then reattached them flat to the glass with silicone (I could've left them off but I figured they'd stop the lid from bowing), I attached neodymium magnets to the acrylic rods and lid (which is 3mm thick "glass look" acrylic, I drilled the air holes and bolted on some cheap pull handles I got off of ebay) to hold it in place.

I have one more that's the same size so I'll covert that one at some point, I have a 3ft one I could do as well but I think that's too big for even a Theraposa.

 

[mconnachan]

My P. Metallica is getting a new home, 20x20x30 Exo-Terra Nano Vivarium, substrate is a mix of coco fibre, forest floor and moss, all boiled and dried to eradicate any beasties, will add some silk plants or a pathos cutting as they don't need much care.

 

[Hias]

Arboreal: 30*30*45cm
should be ok for C. sp. Sulawesi Black.
Plants will be added soon.

 

[Vorax29]

100% natural (real plants)

 

[Ungoliant]

Enclosure for my new Psalmopoeus cambridgei, which is on its way from @cold blood

Psalmopoeus cambridgei Enclosure

• Ungoliant
• May 1, 2017
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• cambridgei enclosure female juvenile female psalmopoeus psalmopoeus cambridgei squirt trinidad chevron tarantula

 

[joseoro11]

Anyone have other examples of terrestrial hobby lobby display enclosures?

 

[raggamuffin415]

Another pokie tank... one of my favorites I've made. Used clay dirt for backdrop for first time. Like how easy and versatile it was to use. Only complaint is how heavy tank is now haha with like 15 lbs of clay in it.

 

[SchubertHelm]

Terrestrial





5 gallon tank, backdrop made with great stuff window and door polyurethane foam, brown silicone ll, drift wood collected from local beach ( washed then dried in oven at 200 degrees farenheight for 30 minutes ), backdrop substrate mix 1/8 dry orchid moss, 1/8 tree bark fragments, 3/4 dry coco fibre, hide made with bark collected from local forest, moss collected from backyard, rock water bowl purchased from petsmart, substrate straight coco fibre.

Temporarily housing 4.5" juvenile L.parahybana

 

[Kayti]

29gal tank.
Terrestrial
B. hamorii/smithi

Asking for tips. This is my first T. Thanks!!

 

[Nanchantress]

Mini Really Useful Boxes, modified like @EulersK showed on YouTube. Penny for size reference. Made tiny water dishes and caves out of bake-able polymer clay. Twelve happy terrestrial slings A.geniculata, S.hoffmanni, B.schroederi, B.albopilosum, B.klaasi B.hamorii.

 

[KrisUpNorth]

Mini helmet case? It's a great size. I very much like the interior design!

Construction-wise I worry that there may not be adequate ventilation. I ended up adding a great number of holes after mine was a stagnant bog.it will help with convenience & containment to cut the lid about 1/3 of the way up & install a hinge. @CyclingSam has a tutorial:

Nicely done!

I love his videos. I have bad feelings about those tarantula huts though, I saw some at Pet Co and half of the spiderlings were dead! Felt so bad for the poor things