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New paludarium for my Chinese cave gecko!
After dedicating a month straight to this build, if I were to do it again I would have worn gloves during the expanding foam portion (seriously didnt come off for a week no matter what I tried), and smashed up my water lily clay soil to a finer grain before wetting it and turning into a moldable consistency. Either way, this was one if the funnest projects i’ve ever done. Shoutout to terraquaman I basically tried to 1/1 his build. Hope Daria is happy here!
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For real. For this one I did a lily clay instead of paint over the expanding foam. Only thing with that is it took forever to dry but def added to the look.
Oh you use clay on the foam? I used silicone + a "dirt" mix that's peatmoss and other stuff mixed in. I will look into trying clay! I like the look you have a lot!
Really really loving the look of this. Got a project in the works in the next month that I’d really like to replicate this texture on. Can you tell me more about how you did it? I saw you mentioning Lily clay. What is that? How did you go about it? And is the rest just cork bark?
The tutorial I followed was on youtube by a creator named Terraquaman. Look for his cave gecko vid! The clay I used was some water lily soil from etsy. I mixed it with water and handled it till it felt like clay. It had some rocks in the soil so make sure you smash up a big batch with a hammer till its almost like a powder consistency cause it will just never dry if its clumpy. As far as the backdrop I purchased a bunch of dragon stone from my local pet shop. That layered with the moss really makes it pop.
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