Making a nice terrarium for just one day in few steps!

Speed_freak · #1 08-01-2011, 01:27 AM

Ok this is my step by step of how to make a simple easy terrarium with a little bit of patience and free time for less than 50$ including the tank!
My girfriend and me made it all in just one day!

All plants, vines , branches, wood, bark are from the nature, stones also!
I paid second hand tank for (26 $) and wire that goes on a top of the terrarium (5 $),soil (3$) background i used a normal sticky one that people use for the glass on the bathrooms for (7$), a placeholders that goes under the tank (4$)!! and you would need some glue or nails...ist up to you (5-10$)!

First you need to get all materials and plants,Materials such as glue, wire, placeholders, background image easily can be found in any home products store, other things you can buy or find in the nature!..i found all my plants, old barks , branches , wood in the forest!

Ok so lets get started!

First you need to find a spot where you want your terrarium and put it there!

Put the placeholders under the tank!

Cut the wire for the top of the terrarium on the dimensions you need!

Cut the wooden board on size also!

Place everything on the top so you can be sure the measures are good!

Now you need to glue everything together or you can use nails!

At The end it should look like this!

Now put some water to heat ,you will need it to kill the insects inside the branches wood!

Put the all branches and wood,stones also in the hot water and spill some more hot ater couple of times over!!.leave it half an hour in the water!

Wash all the plants and leave it in a water for a while

wash the vines and leave them on the sun a few hours! i used them to make a climbing easier to my lizards,connected to the top and bottom of the tank!!

Now you can make a background, cut the sticky tape on desired size and glue it on any old cardboard or styrofoam board!

It looks very cool at the end!

You can now bring all the plants inside near the aquarium so you can start placing them

Add the soil in the tank, and start adding the plants,stones,and other things...its up to you how you will make a placement of them!! make sure to enable your lizard proper areas,depending on the specie you own!

Remaining mess from the plants

And at the end, this is the result!

Another view

Now you can put your lizards inside

THATS IT...GREAT LOOKING TERRARIUM ,LOTS OF FUN, AND ITS NOT A HARD TASK!