Just finished my desert habitat from one of my leopard geckos.

The fake rock is made out of expanding foam and then cut into shape.

Painted with non-toxic paint and sealer then covered Reptile One Desert Sand.

For substrate again I used Reptile One Desert Sand and wet it down so it went hard to stop the gecko from licking it all up. When its shedding time, he is taking out and put in a humid hide.

Mealworm dish in the right front corner and water bowl.

For heating he has a 100W Night Light and a 60W Light bulb for the day.

Ambient temp is around 28-29 degrees.

Great setup

yeah nice work ill be keen to give it ago to make if you can write me a list of what i need

Thanks guys.

Will probably sell this one some time soon as its will be too small soon.

I just went to Bunnings and got:

2x Can expanding foam, non toxic if you can.

Some non-toxic poster paint

Tile sealant

Sand

cool thnks for that might give it a go

i did a similar thing but with peat moss for my brown tree frogs will put up a photo tomorrow.

ok cheers

My Whistling tree frog enclosure with expanding foam and peat moss background

When i was taking the photo i saw these two

thats nice i wonder if i could build a wall for my outside enclosure for my water dragons easy

Yer i would like to do that one day but i wouldn't use expanding foam, its like $17 ish a can and it took me 2 cans to do that

Cool, backgrounds all round.

Those frogs look happy, well the male may be. :sml2:

I've wanted to attempt making a background something like that for some time. One day, one day I will.

Great set-up Jason! May I ask what brand of expanding foam you used for the wall and where you picked it up from?

Great set-up Jason! May I ask what brand of expanding foam you used for the wall and where you picked it up from?

yer this is the first one I've done, a bit of a practice one.

I used gorilla DIY expanding foam from placemakers but any hard wear store will stock it. and sealed it with a non toxic silicone, them stuck the peat moss to the wet silicone.

The frogs sit on it a lot and they have not be affected by it as far as i can see. it is also wet most of the time, from the sprinkler system and it has not grown mold.

great enclsoure Jason.

my frog tank is evolving

January

March

UPDATE

Bit of growth, erosion, and driftwood seems to have moved..

September

that is amazing well done

what is the moss in there looks sooo good

so do the :bounce: 's

Cheers, I was going to pull it apart yesterday as could do with the tank for something else, but just seemed like a waste. So cleaned glass and took some photos instead :sml2:

The dark green stuff is xmas moss so im told. I use to think it was java, definitely one or the other

Small moss growing up the log is a native i think, hardly see it in pic.

Lush lime green stuff you can just make out in the centre, looks like this http://www.terrain.net.nz/friends-of-te-henui-group/club-mosses/african-clubmoss-selaginella-kraussian.html

i have just bought a big tank and am hoping to do something with it like yours

plus about 90 whistling tree frog tads

Heres my two enclosures:

Sky's 6 feet enclosure (Bluey)

Southern Bell Frogs set up:

Nice one. Both great looking enclosures

my fire bellied setup with 3 adult newts and a couple newly morhped and 5 or so larvae

older and newly morphed newt

Here is my beardies set up

wow, very nice! iv just finished making my own rockwall and hides for my soon to be water dragon.

thanks! post pics would love to see! :-)