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Ok, I got my new background installed and renovated my collared tank. What do you guys think?

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1.0.0 Common Snapping Turtle (Goliath)
1.0.0 Brown Anole (Anubis)
1.0.1 Green Anoles (Baal, Hathor)
1.1.0 Great Basin Collared Lizards (Amon, Amaunette)
0.1.0 Chilean Rose Hair Tarantula (Spiega)
0.1.0 Spoiled Mutt (Storm)

Here's Amon:

And Amaunette:

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1.0.0 Common Snapping Turtle (Goliath)
1.0.0 Brown Anole (Anubis)
1.0.1 Green Anoles (Baal, Hathor)
1.1.0 Great Basin Collared Lizards (Amon, Amaunette)
0.1.0 Chilean Rose Hair Tarantula (Spiega)
0.1.0 Spoiled Mutt (Storm)

Very CUTE ! I wish them the very best in their new home and for the future, many C. bicintores children
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Eve / PHEve

NICE JOB, they should be quite happy in there. I was almost waiting to see them with a little CACTUS COOLER drink in their hands, hehehhee, A collared Vacation Home.

I really like the back, what was it made with? Neat texture.

Nice pics !
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Eve / PHEve

i wish i had a cactus cooler in my hand.
sweet cage. i am really jealous. i want one for me to live in hee hee. one day i am going to find me someone who can build stuff and they are going to make me a rockin' cage
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vonnie
***There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it. Mary Wilson Little ***

Hmmmmmm.....

You know.... I was thinking of building a greenhouse and putting together a tropical setup... but how cool would it be to make a desert???

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1.0.0 Common Snapping Turtle (Goliath)
1.0.0 Brown Anole (Anubis)
1.0.1 Green Anoles (Baal, Hathor)
1.1.0 Great Basin Collared Lizards (Amon, Amaunette)
0.1.0 Chilean Rose Hair Tarantula (Spiega)
0.1.0 Spoiled Mutt (Storm)

The base of the background is styrofoam. The texture was rough hewn with spray foam from a can. It was then coated with resin tinted with granite texture tint, carved and sculpted, then painted and sealed.

The pictures are great, but it is indescribably beautiful in person. Amon and Amaunette absolutely love it. They climb the back wall all the time, and seem to enjoy diving off of it! The little daredevils...

It's also funny when the crickets think they've gotten away and try to climb the wall. That's a death sentence.

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1.0.0 Common Snapping Turtle (Goliath)
1.0.0 Brown Anole (Anubis)
1.0.1 Green Anoles (Baal, Hathor)
1.1.0 Great Basin Collared Lizards (Amon, Amaunette)
0.1.0 Chilean Rose Hair Tarantula (Spiega)
0.1.0 Spoiled Mutt (Storm)

Very nice setup. I bet those are 2 happy little lizards!
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Valerie

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.--

God bless the USA

I love that, I am sure the lizards do too. I want to make one because just the other day I covered three sides of the tank with typing paper because Ezra was going mad trying to jump onto the windowsill at our new house. Annabella is always trying to climb the walls to go out through the top. Thanks for showing us!

-Nicole

One more thing...what is rough hewn???

I commisioned an artist friend of mine to make it for me. I don't know what kind of paint seal he used. I'll ask next time I talk to him.

"Rough hewn" just means that he sprayed the foam about where he wanted ledges and texture, then sculpted them later. It really looked like crap when I saw that stage, but as you can see, it turned out great.

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1.0.0 Common Snapping Turtle (Goliath)
1.0.0 Brown Anole (Anubis)
1.0.1 Green Anoles (Baal, Hathor)
1.1.0 Great Basin Collared Lizards (Amon, Amaunette)
0.1.0 Chilean Rose Hair Tarantula (Spiega)
0.1.0 Spoiled Mutt (Storm)

I really enjoy seeing creations such as that. I really like artificial rock work.

Thanks again for sharing it with us.

John E.

Very nice! What type of background is that?

Home made. See desciption elsewhere in this thread.

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1.0.0 Common Snapping Turtle (Goliath)
1.0.0 Brown Anole (Anubis)
1.0.1 Green Anoles (Baal, Hathor)
1.1.0 Great Basin Collared Lizards (Amon, Amaunette)
0.1.0 Chilean Rose Hair Tarantula (Spiega)
0.1.0 Spoiled Mutt (Storm)

That came out very nice!!! You had to do all this work inside the tank, or was this done, then inserted??? Please fill us in on all the details...the work is fantastic, and your rock face very realistic.

Thanks for sharing,

John Eddington

I don't know. As I said elsewhere in this thread, I had a friend make it for me who is much more artistically inclined than I am. He created it in his shop, and I inserted it afterwards.

All I know is that all of the materials I bought (styrofoam, resin, tint) came from my local Pat Catans. The rest (spray foam, paint, seal) could have come from anywhere. But, he shops at Pat Catans a lot, so it all could have come from there.

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1.0.0 Common Snapping Turtle (Goliath)
1.0.0 Brown Anole (Anubis)
1.0.1 Green Anoles (Baal, Hathor)
1.1.0 Great Basin Collared Lizards (Amon, Amaunette)
0.1.0 Chilean Rose Hair Tarantula (Spiega)
0.1.0 Spoiled Mutt (Storm)

what a fantastic background! I have messed around with stryo and modeling paste or tile grout (it even comes in cool desert colors). I would seal it though. thanks for sharing your info. It is truly a masterpiece, congrats!

First off,let me say, what a tank!!!! That is by far,the best tank I have ever layed my eyes on!!
I have a question,Are the plants in the tank real? I love the look those plants gave your tank. I have cactus plants my self,and after seeing your tank,I thought about adding a couple to mine,but i wanted to see if yours were real or not first.
Have you asked the guy that made yours,if he would be interested in makeing some $$ and making something like that for someone else?
Ok enough with the questions,just wanted to tell ya what a great setup you have given your lizards!!

First off,let me say, what a tank!!!! That is by far,the best tank I have ever layed my eyes on!!
I have a question,Are the plants in the tank real? I love the look those plants gave your tank. I have cactus plants my self,and after seeing your tank,I thought about adding a couple to mine,but i wanted to see if yours were real or not first.
Have you asked the guy that made yours,if he would be interested in makeing some $$ and making something like that for someone else?
Ok enough with the questions,just wanted to tell ya what a great setup you have given your lizards!!