So, thanks to Zoo Med, we're going to be creating my ball python, Sunny
a completely new vivarium; my goal is to make it completely bioactive
with all live plants.
So, he's been in this 20 gallon, and it works--
it's fine for him--
but it's pretty boring; this new enclosure will be able to give him
a lot more enrichment, and it'll just look way nicer for me. So all around, it should be really cool
so we can get started with the supplies Zoo Med actually sent me
to help me out with this. So first off, we've got
one of my favorite substrates -- that being Eco Earth.
This is a loose substrate
and by the way, everything I'm going to be talking about will be in the description
of this video so you can go buy it on Amazon.
The Zoo Med Forest Floor, which is my other favorite.
Between the two of them, there should be a really nice mix with these.
They also sent a Zoo Med 30-40 gallon
heater -- this is an under tank heater.
These are great
for tons of different reptiles. I use a bunch of them.
We've got 2 different Zoo Med cork rounds here.
They also tossed in a set of feeding tongs
And we've got the 36 inch
Reptisun LED
UVB. So UVB is great for
reptiles, of course, and LED is great for plants.
So, because this is a 20 [meant 40] gallon, this should really help
all--everything in the enclosure, including Sunny
I'm definitely going to talk about this and use this in the video
but I am going to dedicate a video to just
this panel because it's pretty fancy and I think it
deserves it's own video, and
review, so we'll do that later--
however I will go ahead and take all of this stuff off
unbox this, and then show you the other supplies I'm using.
[Chill Music]
Ok, there we go. On the bottom, you can see there's the LED here
and the UVB here -- I should probably
read this just in case.
I'm sure you could see it without me turning that off
but--so on the bottom we've got the UVB
then we have the blue LED
the red and white LEDs
or just the white LEDs. But we can put this aside until we need it again.
Here are the things that I'll be using that I just got
I've got 2 things of expanding foam, 2 things
of silicone, this is just Sunny's old hide that
he's had for years. And his old water
bowl that he's had for a while so that'll work fine
and then I found some cool branches I found outside, so I cleaned them up
And...
So I cleaned them up and...
So I cleaned the up, and cut them out [up]
So I already have a couple of the plants I'll be using
but the rest of the plants or little springtail cultures, or isopods
(I'm not exactly sure what I'm getting yet)
but those will be coming soon
but since this will take a few days anyway, I can go ahead
and get ready to foam the back of this enclosure.
I have the 40 gallon right over here
Oh boy, here we go...
[Intense grunt]
[Grunt #2]
Ok, I did it. So I have these two
cork pieces-I think I'm going to foam
this one piece like right over there or something
and then put some plants in it. I also have these little cups
that I might try and foam, just a couple of them
so I can have some moss maybe hanging out of it or something.
Please keep in mind -- I've only foamed things a few times
I've never done a full vivarium like this
So it's my first time, I'll do the best I can -- but we'll see... how it goes... [Music]
[Music cuts out]
[Music's back]
So the background is nearing completion
It's taking a lot longer than I thought, it was about 3 hours of carving
1-2 hours of
messing around and playing around with
with the--with the silicone in there
so it is pretty brown and bland right now
which, I guess it's not too bad, but I want it to look a lot more naturalistic
and a lot more green so I'll be adding those plants once they arrive
but I do already have sphagnum moss, which I can play around with
and add to the backdrop once all the silicone is dry.
[Music]
Sylvester (cat): Meow
Hey, Syl
what are you doing?
[Sylvester]:Meow
[Music]