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I am tossing it up between Coco-mat or cork bark. I am currently building a 55gal Paludarium, and can't decide what to use for the backing. Coco-mat looks pretty cool, but cork bark looks really cool. I currently have a 20gallon setup with cork bark backing, but it's really a pain to adhere to the back, and I don't like how it leaves gaps that crickets/frogs can get behind. Any suggestions other than the two?

PS: Anyone ever make a waterfall with corkbark? Anyone have pics???

>>I am tossing it up between Coco-mat or cork bark. I am currently building a 55gal Paludarium, and can't decide what to use for the backing. Coco-mat looks pretty cool, but cork bark looks really cool. I currently have a 20gallon setup with cork bark backing, but it's really a pain to adhere to the back, and I don't like how it leaves gaps that crickets/frogs can get behind. Any suggestions other than the two?
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>>PS: Anyone ever make a waterfall with corkbark? Anyone have pics???

You could go with cork bark tiles. They are 12"x12" tiles 1/4" thick. You can find them by the bulletin board supplies. They come with their own double sided sticky tabs. One could even double and triple them up and then carve away at them to give them more texture. Clint
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I used Black jungles method, used spray foam (greatstuff is the brand name), black silicone & coir (same stuff as eco earth).
Put a water line into the foam and drilled holes for several "waterfall" type openings for the water to seep out. I used a small fountain pump to power the water. Used corkbark and driftwood in the foam before the silicone and coir. Read black jungles website to get the step by step. Very easy but messy, the look is worth it though!

This is a 20 gallon tank with a canopy. I house RETF in here.

Close up.

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i used the same technique as hill4803 and was pretty happy with it. one cool thing is that ge has brown siliconeII now so it looks a lot better if some of the coco husk comes off. here is a pic, sorry you cant see the waterfall too well, i took this pic a while back to show the fogger. for the waterfall i cut some triangles out of the cork bark and then wedged them, and foamed them in the corner. i put them in at an angle as to create an area for water to pool. i did two of these, one at the top and one about 6-8 inches down. the water pools in the top and then flows down to pool in the bottom before draining to the pool below. the water line runs behind in the foam. i used a 110 gph pump and wasnt too happy with the flow, i would recommend something a little bigger. for the gap behing the cork bark, just fill it with great stuff foam. for cork bark check out the corkstore.com

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