It's finished!

Technically it needs another piece of trim but nevermind that! It's taken just about 3 years but Satins enclosure is finally finished. It was always meant to be a display piece, something that could be put in the living room/public area of wherever we lived, but due to life/laziness we just put it together enough for her to live in until about half a year ago. I just finished painting it today, and now we can sit back and admire our combined hard work. (bf built it, I designed/painted)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...psiupbtzay.jpg

Wow that looks really awesome! Nice work!

That looks really awesome! One question though: how come you used a heat lamp instead of a radient heat panel (RHP)? A RHP would fit nicely inside the enclosure so you dont have to have the heat lamp on top. Otherwise I think you did a great job!

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Originally Posted by Mr. Misha

That looks really awesome! One question though: how come you used a heat lamp instead of a radient heat panel (RHP)? A RHP would fit nicely inside the enclosure so you dont have to have the heat lamp on top. Otherwise I think you did a great job!

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Thanks! At the time of building it I didn't know about RHPs (plus we were building on a tight budget and already had a heat lamp), so that's pretty much the only reason I didn't put that in instead. :oops: I have been talking about switching to a RHP though.

Wow! Really, really nice. Looks fantastic - would love to see some more photos from the front, instead of at an angle :) You and your BF both did a really great job.

Due to finals I haven't been over to get pictures of it, but here are some more pictures, as asked. :D

The front.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...ps18bf2822.jpg

And the "wood" trim. It's actually PVC trim with wood patterning. Painting the trim took the longest, since unlike the tan areas where I could put painters tape over the trim and roller the paint on, I had to half-crouch and paint VERY slowly along the trim. I give credit to my art skills that I didn't get brown paint on anything else except in a few places. :D
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...psqpds37lc.jpg

Thinking of putting something like a tile-pattern (I saw someone use a stone-patterned one and it looked awesome, but it won't match with the wood look) linoleum on the inside, since it's so boringly white.

Awesome work!

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It looks really nice! Great job!

That's beautiful!

One day I want to build something like that, you don't mind if I take the pictures and use them as inspiration do you? ;)

Thanks everyone! :D

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Originally Posted by Kat_Dog

That's beautiful!

One day I want to build something like that, you don't mind if I take the pictures and use them as inspiration do you? ;)

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Not at all. :)

UPDATE: After the massive rainfall/flooding we had a few weeks ago, there was a ton of nicely stripped wood around one of the rivers near me, so the man and I went out and got another branch to finish up the main decoration in the tank. In order to bake this piece like we did the last one, it would involve too many cuts and we were worried about weakening the branches, so we cleaned/sanded them down and then used some water-based polyurethane coating to seal it. The result is lovely and now Satin can travel the whole width of her tank without ever touching the ground. It also gives her a little more enrichment. :)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...psos7dlg48.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...pskvfvnxbz.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...ps1dpgpk68.jpg

That is friggin' awesome! Very well done! I'm kinda jealous :oops:

Very nice!

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Originally Posted by bearded_guy

That is friggin' awesome! Very well done! I'm kinda jealous :oops:

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Thanks! A lot of people have said they like her enclosure, so we were actually thinking of doing custom-made tanks if people want them! ;)