so today we start a video off by putting on some gloves because you do not use
spray foam without gloves unless you want to never get it off your fingers
ever again so this was my first time using spray foam it's very fun it looks
very delicious that looks like a whipped cream surprise uh it probably doesn't
taste like one so don't recommend eating it but it was
very fun and satisfying to put on the styrofoam board
then came time to my placement of things I kind of wish I would have figured out
that the stuff was going to sink into the foam so a lot of the ledges end up a
lot smaller than what they were because the foam literally engulfed it so but
this is my first time building a background for a reptile so give me a
little bit of slack also I don't recommend wearing your favorite pajama
pants because you probably will end up with some foam on your pants the next
step for this very long process is putting silicone on to the foam after
you've carved it out silicone first of all stinks
second of all it's really hard to work with it's SuperDuper sticky don't ask me
why I have a paintbrush here and I'm trying to spread it that is a stupid
idea because the silicone is just so sticky that it just sticks to the
paintbrush and it doesn't like smear so it's an awful idea
also let's not tell my parents that I dripped silicone on their deck
then here for some reason I decided I was going to put the Coco fiber on right
at that moment I don't know why I didn't just wait until the end because now it
just made things a little bit harder I should have waited till the end because
silicone takes a long time to dry anyways so I would have had enough
drying time to put all of the coconut fiber on the back don't ask me why I did
it like that once again this is my first time doing this so give me some slack
then I got really smart I got a plastic knife this worked so much better for
smoothing the silicone around everywhere I should have just started with this
instead of my sad paintbrush
then we are just gonna jump cut straight to me adding in my hydro balls because
why not they are very wet because I had just
finished rinsing them off as you can kind of see in that reflection I'm
draining the water out of them
then the next step is to add in this black stuff I think it's like supposed
to be your barrier divider so that the soil doesn't get on to the hydro balls
because the hydro balls help keep the water, the drainage? I'm sorry I'm so bad
at explaining this as you can tell I'm not a bioactive expert so I apologize
for that you can also enjoy my very skinny twig
arms being shoved in front of the camera
and then here we are adding in our ABG substrate, dirt whatever you call it but
this is so the plants can grow properly because they can't grow in coconut fiber
then on top of that we have some Spagna? spagmom? spag-nom? sphagnum
some sphagnum moss! to add on the top of that.
then the last little cake topper we have to add here is our Magnolia leaf litter
and this is just what it looks like from the side and the top it looks really
really cool I just like the way it looks from the side then we have our cleanup
crew so we have springtails and then we have our skirted isopods
which these guys look really really cool and the spring tails I didn't get to
show you because they're absolutely tiny and then we just jump cut to the
enclosure being done but I'm just adding in a saffron's food dish and then I'm also
adding in his water ledge then I'm just gonna go ahead and mist it down so it's
all ready for him to get into and then the final moment here it is saffron
jumping into his new enclosure
so for saffron's enclosure I siliconed these two homemade ledges I made on to
the sides I'm really happy with how they came out they look exactly like rocks so
I'm pretty proud of them so he has those to lay on if he wants to then we have
these really two nice pieces of wood I really like the far back one that one's
nice and tall and then the front one is nice as well
then we just have a little small half piece of a cork log maybe the isopods can hide under there if they
want to and right there is a Dracaena and then of course the food dish and
water dish at the back there and then we have my dying bromeliad hopefully it
recovers don't know if it's gonna if it dies I'll have to replace it but I'll be
sad anyways saffron's absolutely loving his
new enclosure he is a lot happier than he was before so ya guys thank you so
much for watching bye