"natural" looking home for BP

[blueberrypancakes]

So suppose I wanted to set up a tank truly inspired by Jacksons natural environment. What would that actually look like?
(He's captive bred, so I suppose it would look like it does now... but lets pretend he wasn't...)

[rabernet]

It would look like a termite mound, or a rodent burrow, with lots of clay as the substrate and not much else.

[Skiploder]

So suppose I wanted to set up a tank truly inspired by Jacksons natural environment. What would that actually look like?
(He's captive bred, so I suppose it would look like it does now... but lets pretend he wasn't...)

The dark interior of an african termite mound.

Close your eyes and you can imagine it - literally. A black hole........

[blueberrypancakes]

that sounds like it might be kinda tough to set up... and I would rather not welcome termites into my home... any creative ideas on how to simulate that in a way that might be aesthetically pleasing to the humans who might see it?
He's staying on paper towel for now, but it might be a fun long term goal, perhaps when he gets big enough to upgrade to a 40G...

[kitedemon]

The ground cover is typically tough grasses (looks like straw) the ground is often hard packed clay and dry cracked. A few trees here and there, flat mostly. The northern part of the range is quite lush with open forest and lots of litter on the ground.

They don't live in termite mounds nest maybe but not live. Most evidence I have found suggests they will take over a burrow eat the occupancies and then move to the next.

If you wanted really natural I'd look at some sort of cracked clay substrate (free of lime, natural clay) sealed somehow and planted Carex grass in tuffs. Carex looks good if it is alive but also if it is dead and dry it still does. I'd likely kill it once established. It is a lot of work.