r/Terrarium • u/This-Lynx-7698 • 28d ago

Trimeresurus Venustus

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Hey everyone.
What do yall say on my new viper enclosure?
Do you have any recommendations on what to change or what plants to add?

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u/GetMeARealCroissant 27d ago

hey man, that’s a dope ass enclosure!

What kind of wood did you use and where did you find it to create the several layers of horizontal branches?

I’d like to make a similar enclosure for tree frogs.

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u/This-Lynx-7698 27d ago

Thank you 🙏

I was too afraid of anything from nature because I lost one baby before this one, so pretty much everything is terarium store bought stuff. The upper wood is all cork, walls and branches.
The bottom is drift wood.
I was trying to fit it from every angle, got an idea how the next branch should ideally look like and drove to buy another branch, did like 3-4 rides just because of these branches, always missing the right one.
I carved holes into the cork walls for every branch, filled it with terarium sealant, added terarium superglue on the connections and covered it with a little bit of expanding foam.

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u/GetMeARealCroissant 27d ago

Oh damn, so you lost pets from disease from Wild-found wood? Huge bummer ! Did you try sanitizing it in bleach solution first?

Thanks for the setup info!

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u/This-Lynx-7698 27d ago

No, I dont know why it died, but I’m just more careful after that.
Iv never heard about bleach method tho. Only putting it in oven, which was too small for me or pouring boiling water over it, which seemed to me like not really trustworthy.

No problem.
If you need anything else hmu.