Ideas for Desert Vivariums

[jaf2212]

Very helpful, hopefully a mod will made it a sticky to avoid every from asking as it has some great ideas, esp for people who have never seen a true desert

[fantapants]

some beautiful pics Andy, i love the idea of recreating a dried river bed but dread the idea of cleaning beardy poop out from the cracks!

[HadesDragons]

Originally Posted by tinkerbruce

some beautiful pics Andy, i love the idea of recreating a dried river bed but dread the idea of cleaning beardy poop out from the cracks!

That's what I'd thought... and beardies being beardies they'd probably aim for the cracks as well!!

[jonnyjr]

In previous posts Andy you have talked about in your vivs you have sand stone with sand inbertween recreating the hard ground with a dusting of sand, do you have any pictures of this (you vivs)

[HadesDragons]

http://www.reptileforums.co.uk/lizar...-feedback.html

That's the original thread, where I was first trialling the idea with pretty basic setups.

Now that I know it works, I'm planning on pushing it to its limits this summer to see what I can come up with for them...

[tat2stu]

love the pics
a possible way of making cracked mud is to use plasti-kote crackle touch spray

Decorative spray paints from Plasti-kote, the market leading spray paint

you would have to varnish it
if you make a thin base out of tile grout to give it a bit of dimension then spray over the top.
there is another way, but i can't rememberthe exact stuff to use,
i think it was a clay base made in the shape you want and then bake in the oven at a very high temp, it should then give the look of cracked mud.
i will try and find out how it was done,
i seen it in an old military modelling magzine

[HadesDragons]

Thanks.

That spray sounds interesting - I imagine it will give it an onion-skin cracked mud texture? I'm thinking about going and digging up some clay soil, mixing it with really fine-grade sand, and baking it to see how it looks when it dries...

[tat2stu]

Originally Posted by HadesDragons

Thanks.

That spray sounds interesting - I imagine it will give it an onion-skin cracked mud texture? I'm thinking about going and digging up some clay soil, mixing it with really fine-grade sand, and baking it to see how it looks when it dries...

let me know how you get on

[HadesDragons]

I'm sure I'll end up putting loads of photos on here - afterall, a summer with no beardie breeding going on means I've got loads of time to play around with setups

[R0NST3R]

Cheeras fo this post. Now I need to get a temp for my Beardie so I can sort something decent out