Cheap fake plants, great selection!

[Black.Rabbit]

Typical, I go to Spotlight for some calico and I come home with a bag full of goodies!

They had a whole aisle devoted to fake plants, and a whole section of it just greenery. Prices ranged from $1.99 up to $10 (for the really big leaves).

These are my Diamonds' enclosures before:

And After

If you look closely, you can see that the big fan type leaves are actually screwed into the enclosures as they're strong enough to serve as a basking spot! Those fan ones were $4.50 each...

All up, to do both the enclosures it cost me $32 for 10 plants!

I'd say that's a bargain!!!



Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde don't seem too interested yet, they looked up, gave it the 'Meh' look and went back to sleep. I'd say they'll wait until I've gone to bed... Hopefully I'll find them somewhere new in the morning, most often they're always in the same spot.

 

[gosia]

Noice - thanks for sharing. I guess spot light here I come lol

 

[KaotikJezta]

OH, will have to go to spotlight. I did this for about $10 courtesy of $2 shops and ebay but I have been searching for some new stuff:

 

[Crystal..Discus]

Overflow is like that too! Go in for some forks, come out with a bag full of fake plants!

 

[Kelly86]

cool, thanks for sharing off to spotlight!


Looks awesome by the way

 

[EmmaMary]

Awesome! I was just thinking about fake plants today

 

[KaotikJezta]

Where did you get the skeleton from, been looking for one everywhere

 

[Black.Rabbit]

Where did you get the skeleton from, been looking for one everywhere

Dreamworld funnily enough, when you get off the tower of terror and go into that shop that tries to sell you bad photos and random stuff... I instantly thought of my snake(s) (I only had my woma back then), and bought it lol... the black skull in the other enclosure is also from there. The skeleton is actually a wine bottle holder.

 

[KaotikJezta]

Dreamworld funnily enough, when you get off the tower of terror and go into that shop that tries to sell you bad photos and random stuff... I instantly thought of my snake(s) (I only had my woma back then), and bought it lol... the black skull in the other enclosure is also from there. The skeleton is actually a wine bottle holder.

Oh, I've seen them, that might be the go, thanks.

 

[Kimberlyann]

Wow i went to spot light yesterday and seen all their fake plants instantly thinking of my scaly babies, and they wanted $10 for this little stick with about 6 leaves on it!

 

[Scag]

Very nice enclosure, what are the dimensions? looks exactly like mine built by tsbjd.

 

[Samee]

Will have to go have a look

 

[Black.Rabbit]

Wow i went to spot light yesterday and seen all their fake plants instantly thinking of my scaly babies, and they wanted $10 for this little stick with about 6 leaves on it!

Which spotlight?

Very nice enclosure, what are the dimensions? looks exactly like mine built by tsbjd.

Thanks, the whole thing is 120 x 120 x 60 =)

 

[Schnecke]

Thanks - you just gave me something to do in my lunchbreak. I'm going to be allowing Moose "playtime" in his full size enclosure over the next few weeks, to introduce him to it slowly, and the ones we had, we removed from the Bredli enclosure, as he wraps around them and is impossible to remove. Those look like a bettwe style. Full without being overkill. I LIKE!

 

[Scag]

Nice, also could you please tell me what wattage globes you are using.

 

[Tristan]

where did you get your skeleton man in the bottom corner? i want one

 

[Kimberlyann]

Which spotlight?

Tuggerah, Central coast

 

[Basstones]

where did you get your skeleton man in the bottom corner? i want one

Did you read the previous page? :S

Where did you get the skeleton from, been looking for one everywhere

Dreamworld funnily enough, when you get off the tower of terror and go into that shop that tries to sell you bad photos and random stuff... I instantly thought of my snake(s) (I only had my woma back then), and bought it lol... the black skull in the other enclosure is also from there. The skeleton is actually a wine bottle holder.

Equinny, nice find. Thanks for putting it up. Shall be in spotlight this weekend anyway so looks like the enclosure is getting a refresh

 

[Schnecke]

I just went and got 3 of those big leafed ones ($3) and you're very right, they're really tough and the perfect size for basking! Have just enough flex to move where you want, but rigid enough to have a smallish python crawl around on them.

I also got 2 large long leafed ones ($7 each) and a smaller bushier long leafed one ($7) plus a small grass like one ($4.50)

PLUS - I was wondering what to use as a basking shelf, and I found some ply made ready-to-paint placemats that are light and REALLY strong ($1.70 each) So will get a few brackets for them too!

Thanks so much for the inspiration, I will also post up pics tonight once we've had a go at our enclosures

Best $32 total I've ever spent. I was really worried I wouldn't find real enough plants for the enclosure that weren't really bushy. There were lots of flowery ones there too and I had to hunt around for a bit so locate the good realistic ones, but it was worth it.

 

[Smithers]

Looks great go the spot light go-lo, clints, sams warehouse, reject shop are all good for a cheap herp related score.