Bredli Enclosure Build(edited end post to have a bit more details of how i did it)
all moved in yay
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could a moderator please put this as the opening post on this thread for me pretty please haha
so i started with a old corner kitchen cabinet that measures 88 x 88 x 70cm(re measured and it was actually 10cm bigger lol
anyways i started with a whole bunch of styrofoam box's that i got from the local fruit place near my place and cut em up and used liquid nails to stick em on the the back and made a layer of it along the back
then i did another layer and started carving peices with a stanly blade and a soldering iron(which crapped it self not too long after i started carving and kept flicking the saftey switch off)
then i used a 250ml cup and measured out 750 ml of water 250ml of pva glue and 2 containers of off white concrete and used a normal paint brush to paint it all on over the foam
then i did a layer of 250ml water 250ml of pva and a 500ml worth of the off white concrete
then i went a bit thicker again for the second last coat and added a bit of oxide
then same mix again but with alot more oxide
and finnally i used about 900ml of bondal pondtite and put it in one of those hand sprayer thingy's that bunnings sells for $1.30 and just sprayed away once the concrete had set over night (i think in places i sprayed a bit much of it and ended up with a thicker layer then other places but oh well it turned out nicely
screwed the branch and the light cage in fitted the slides and test fitted glass
i let it cure for a few days untill i couldnt smell it much and moved it up stairs put the glass in permanantly put a bag of krittlers crumble(i think thats what the stuff is called) turned the thermo on and let it warm up (ceramic heat emitters take alot longer to then the infared lights do and throw the heat alot less i think)
and my bredli in there having a nice rest on his branch
and all set up and running with my hatchling jungle in her tub (just waiting for thermo to rock up and il be doing another build for her next enclosure but she and her tub are going into fidgets old enclosure for the time being(once the thermo actually rocks up)