NATURAL VIVARIUM BUILD | Desert Habitat for Tropiocolotes Steudneri
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ส.ค. 2024
- Settiung up my desert arid custom vivarium 50x40x30cm or 19x15x11" made by T&S Terrarien for Tropiocolotes Steudneri.
Stuff i used for this background
- styrophoam
- expanding foam
- flex tile adhesive
- tinting paint (terracotta, brown, white, red, orange)
- red sand
- brushes
- gloves
- bucket
- knive
- heating gun
- silicone
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You deserve way more subs. This is better than i see in most zoos!
Thank you!❤
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Ok I was looking for inspire for a uromastyx buikd and I wasn't paying huge attention to the title and was not expecting tiny little geckos at the end 🥺 so cute! And look at their mansion! This is a really beautiful build
Haha thank you😂👍
You deserve way more views and subscribers this are grate vids
aw thank you :)
I love the attention to detail!!!!
thank you!
Brilliant! Love your builds, love your channel. Those suckers are microscopic! They make morning geckos look like apatasaurus
Aww thank you so much. I loved those tinky geckos so much, they're such a cool species.
I would at least wait a bit for him to get bigger so i could find him in the cage wow he is so small but absolutely amazing work on the terrarium
thank you! they were always visible even at tat small size :) they are out basking during the day
Amazing build
You are very talented
God had blessed you abundantly
Aw thank you so much!
Those geckos are super cute!
C'est la meilleure vidéo de terrarium desertique sur yt à ce jour 👌
Mon dieu merci beaucoup c'est gentil😍
In the process of doing my ackies viv. Can’t wait to do the background because you make it look so good!
Aw thank you so much❤
Those are some teeny tiny babies 😍
this is exactly what i want to do for my beetles
Great build cutest geckos
Awesome video, thank you!!
Amazing job
thank you so much :)
So brilliant!!!
Thank you!
Beautiful
I love this good job
Really cool!!
I dont know if you'll see this since the video is old but could you make a care guide vidie for these guys?
How many geckos can be in the same tank? Males or females? Male and female ratio, temperatures all that stuff.
I don't have them anymore but they are pretty social and even several males can work. They can be kept in lager groups. Temperatures should be under the basking spot about 35°C and ambiant temperatures about 26°C :)
@@3012ftp thank you for such a quick responce! I read somewhere that for breeding 3 females and 3 males would be good in a 60cm long. Is that true? Or could I even keep more breeding pairs?
@@ennat6251 i personally think it's better to keep more females than males if you have the chance. Because even if they're social males could not get along. I would not keep too many geckos to begin with because they will reproduce so it's better to start with only a few geckos
@@3012ftp okay thank you!
Beautiful build! 😍 Are you using just normal foam? Is it safe or it doesn't matter as you cover it? You think it will work with a waterfall?
Thanks! :) i used styrophoam and expanding foam from the hardware store. If you want to build in a waterfall it has to be waterproof i think. With some kind of varnish maybe?
amazing!
Thats absolutely amazing!.. i was wondering what substrate you use and what that stuff you add to it if you don't mind my asking
Thanks. It's red sand and the thing i add is clay powder and water to make the substrate solid
@@3012ftp where did you get the clay powder. I'm looking online and everything I see is stuff for face mask and seems to have other additives.
Very nice
The weird thing is. Is that some people use soil and but wood and stuff like spring tails and isopods other use sand . I want to get one but I wanna make it a bioactive self maintaing terrarium so I don’t have to do as much work but I don’t know how to do that for a desert terrarium.
In my opinion desert vivariums are less "work" than planted ones. If you can call that work^^
GECKOS how many times do you gotta clean yours. And I’m sorry for asking a lot of questions but I can’t really find info on these guys. And if I do get one I wanna build a habitat where everything works together. Do you know any insects or something like a clean up crew I could put in the Vivarium with the monitor make it like a bioactive Vivarium like they do with other lizards or is that not possible with the monitor.
GECKOS and again sorry for asking a lot of questions.
are those the geckos that you can find outside your porch at night?
They are naitve to northafrica so unfortunately no😃
Great video and nice enclosure but can u put tinting paint link cuz in my country we dont have that word also i just bought terrarium and if i do that background for
they will love it sorry for bad english.
the name of the brand is swingcolor
Any craft paint/ acrylic type is safe and cheap at the dollar stores. They need to be sealed after you are done. Decoupage is safe but will need to do a few layers and then you can sprinkle the sand on it while it's still damp or tacky
Where do you get slate rock from
It looks great! Is that how big those geckos get? If so, they’re tiny!
Thanks :) they aren't full grown yet they reach about 7cm in length
My adult gecko is 18cm
Which is normal.size
Hehe smol
Why don't you mix the substrate separately? Is there a reason for that or is it just easier to do the mixing inside the terrerium?
I'm too lazy to mix it outside of the enclosure
Are the branches used anything specific?
I bought them at the pet shop
Niiiice
What temperature do these little guys need in the terrarium? And do they only need a warm corner or the whole terrarium to be warm?
on the cooler side i have about 24°C and under the heat lamp it's about 31°C. you should always provide a warm and cooler side for them to be able to choose their preferred temperature zone.
What tinting paint do you use? I tried looking it up and only found acrylic paints. Also what kind of flex tile adhesive, I'm assuming these are safe to use. Please help, thanks
swingcolor is the brand of the colors i used. it's just waterbased tinting paint. tile adhesive in it's powdery or liquid form is toxic. but once dried out it should be fine. you should be careful no to inhale it because it's very dusty when mixing it with water.
@@3012ftp Thank you for the reply! Great work 👍
So you don't plan to have it easy to clean the substrate/sand? Since it's pretty solid
I just vacuume it every once in a while
What type of wood did you use? I love it for the arid setting.
Some kind of desert bush😅 i bought these at the petshop. You can google "lucky reptile deco set desert" for example
I panicked for a second thinking you were putting leopard geckos in that small tank.
You are so good but how you manage this little fellas in there?? lol
Thanks! I do sometimes vacuume out the poop. For food they are getting firebrats as main source and sometimes fruit flies or tiny crickets.
What powder are you applying at 6:10 and why? I really enjoy your builds. They look spectacular! I am looking into building an arid setup for a future dwarf monitor. BR Nick
it's clay powder. sand + clay + water makes it a solid substrate so the sand isn't loose and the geckos can't digest any of it. thank you so much! :)
@@3012ftp Do you use the same technique in any of your other enclosures? How does it perform with desert species that digg, like your monitor?
@@Leijon83 did the same technique in my monitor's enclosure and she uses it frequently and even tried to dig in it but it's ok so far :D the background still looks nice
What expanding foam did you use i am planning to make an arid terrarium and i have no idea what could be safe
There is no "safe" expanding foam. in its loose form it's (as far as my knowlege) toxic especially the gas that comes out of the bottle. so make sure to keep a window open when applying it and avoid skin contact. once fully dry it should be fine :)
by tile adhesive, do you mean grout?
Yeah kinda
do this animals need a uv lamp?
It wouldn't hurt, because they are basking during the day
What plant did you add in the corner?
It's a fake plant ;)
what mix do you use for the orange shade?
i think it was red/orange, dark brown, terracotta, and white. but it doesn't matter too much because the exo terra sand i'm putting on later mainly gives the background it's red colour
@@3012ftp ah ok, could you tell me how you went about putting the sand, you put it right after you put your coat of paint is that?
@@leosuri9041 yes while the paint is still wet
@@leosuri9041 yes i put the paint on and then (if the tank is small like this one you can lay it on its side and put the sand on it. on a bigger enclosure i just had to throw it at the background :D
@@3012ftp and the sand of course holds the paint?
What kind of gecko is it?
Tropiocolotes steudneri a dwarf gecko
you just have this low subscribers how?
🦎🦎🦎🦎❤️😍where can I get these geckos??
I got them from a guy in my area😀
Do you still keep these ?
So, i sold them a couple years ago. But can recommend them 100%
@@3012ftp do you have a contact number to identify if my are steudneri or tri
@@JayBay813 i'm not really qualified to identify them i'm sorry
DO NOT USE SAND
Did you even watch the video?
Geckos eat the sand by accident and die :(
The sand was not loose so they could not ingest it
Sand isn’t the best thing to use
Yes it looks the most natural ;) the sand isn't loose it was mixed with clay/water (if you watched the video) and is a solid substrate. The only sand that is loose is the one that came down from the background
GECKOS lol I apologise for my comment without fully watching the video
@@valzie9558 no problem :)
ridiculous video