After a month or three of research, planning and building my custom vivarium is up and running. I'm happy with the result, and Opal seemed to have a good time poking around for a few hours after introducing her last night. The viv is 3' x 2' x 2', with the substrate varying from around 5-8 inches depth, plus a drainage layer, leaving around 16-18 inches head space. Substrate is coir, peat, top soil and leaf litter, and springtails and isopods have been introduced to keep the place tidy. Still fiddling around with the temperatures a bit, but ambients on the surface currently range from around 78 to 87, and humidity has been hovering in the high 70s. Six vents, three upper and three lower, should keep the air circulating. Heat is provided with a RHP, and lighting is provided by a 6500K LED bar on a timer for daytime and as well as a LED strip with various colour options for night.
Up next on Opal's Vivarium: will the plants survive her onslaught of fury? Will I ever find my snake again in all those leaves? Tune in next week to find out.
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