Planted Enclosure

[31drew31]

Me and my girlfriend decided to make our tegus enclosure look a little nicer. So we went to Home Depot and picked up some live plants, took an old aquarium I had and made it into a pond and then added some bark mulch on top. We also added a waterfall into it. The aquarium/cage is a damamged 120G from a pet store i picked up for 50 bucks. In the third pic you can see the little columbian sticking his head out haha. Let me know what you think!

Andrew.

 

[Dom3rd]

That looks good what size aquarium is that that ur tegu is in?

 

[31drew31]

120 gallon like posted above haha

 

[Dom3rd]

sorry i missed that ...LOL

 

[31drew31]

hah its alright.

 

[nemo66]

do you have the plants in a pot buried under the mulch or are they just in the mulch?

 

[31drew31]

Actually i have about 5-6 inches of soil underneath the mulch. The mulch is just for humidty and to make it look cleaner. Also the tegu loves burying himself in it in the one corner where i put more mulch.

 

[nemo66]

that's a cool idea. how often do you change the soil?

 

[31drew31]

well ive only had it done like that for about 5 days. But im not planning on changing the soil. just spot clean and pull out the bark nuggets that have been soiled on and replace as needed. Only time id do anything to the soil would be if it really started to smell or if i saw mold growing.