Expanding Foam Vivarium Background

Once the silicon is dry you can get out your can of tetra waterfall foam sealant to start making your textured background.

Expanding foam vivarium background. Bigalspets has a helpful stepwise guide to making a natural vivarium background using black expanding foam black aquarium silicon reptile mulch bedding cork bark and driftwood. Once you have completed the spraying you can start sculpting the cured foam into the shapes you desire and sanding it if you want a smooth finish. The trick is to surround the wood with a layer of foam.

If the expanding foam is the only good method could i just use sand paper instead of an exacto knife to remove the top layer of foam. Applying an expanding foam product to the back of the vivarium to create a three dimensional base. Using the great stuff canned foam apply a layer of foam in between your objects.

Welcome to part 2a of the 10 gallon aquarium to vivarium miniseries. I am going to be setting up my first dart frog vivarium but i am intimidated by the expanding foam method. You do not want to apply too much at once as the foam will expand and cover the wood.

Add coconut fibers moss topsoil or some other natural looking material to the silicone and allow it to dry in place. The sprayed foam will expand and harden within 3 minutes. Ndherpetoculture have a good but a little complicated guide ideal for pros.

Unfortunately without it the ugly foam is visible from the outsides of the enclosure and the background will be more likely to fall away from the glass. Special thanks to my husba. To start throw on some latex gloves and apply a thin even layer of black aquarium grade silicone along whatever section of the glass panels you ll be building the background on.

In this episode i will show you how to make one rendition of a great stuff gs foam nat. Does anyone know of any other methods to make a nice background. Once you have finished sanding and sculpting the handi foam you can decide how to finish it off.