Sophia

and romancing frogs in the background... what a sound, they sound like ducks being run over

didn't turn out exactly as I'd hoped, we didn't have a nozzle thingy for the end so it was a long blob. I had it clamped for a long time but it didn't really need it. If this one lets go I will do something different for the lid.

nerd

I'm 34 - 1976 baby

Istanbul

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:bounce: I like those geckos too, they look handpainted

Sorry, here are some better photos of what I'm up to left side has flap that works (not the flap with the lamp attached, the one stuck to the inside of the tank for the lid to rest on working flap closer

Gladiators! I couldn't watch past the scorpion and the beetle, though I was surprised who won. :sick: I too get bad dreams about bugs occasionally :-?

This is what I am trying to recreate or rather fix in my bugs tank: We added some glass flaps to the internal edge of the bugs tank so the lids could sit inside, and rest along the long side of the tank, and essentially be a closed flat lid so the killifish couldn't jump out. The flaps don't go from edge to edge like the one in the photo below. They take up half of the inside edge, right in the middle. One side is fine, but this week the other slowly started to drop. I got the blame for putting mozzie water pot on the top of the tank but I think it was also to do with there being a lot of silicone and it hadn't cured properly before I put the pots on top. So I've taken the falling piece out, removed all the silicone from the edge it was stuck to and itself, and cleaned it off with acetone - it's clean and dry. Can/Should I put a line of silicone around the edge of the flap or should the whole piece be coated like glue before sticking it to the under side of the tank edge again? Does the piece that the lids rest on need to go right from edge to edge? Comparing mine to the one Greg made, his go edge to edge but there is no silicone gluing it at the ends. The tank is 25cm wide and the glass is 5mm thick.

Wart (I suppose when you have a place of your own you will be travelling by horse drawn cart?)

Caryl, tell him off Joe, just for that you have to go again and undo your evil work

Me Dragon! my turn next year

tyre (are you liking these 'simple' selections Mr Blueether?)

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Nissan

Godzilla

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I find that baking the substrate in the oven is a very good snail ridder - doesn't need to be overly hot, 100 degrees for an hour or 2 should penetrate through and a couple of stirrings in between, like a hot mud pie You still have to clean out the tank glass etc of course but there is already a lot of advice about that.

the label says whether it should be kept in the fridge. I don't think it is compulsory

icthyosaurus

Kickass

hahha! :lol: such calm little heads with scrabbling bodies underneath very funny little guys thanks very much