I want to completely make every decoration going into my upcoming lizards tank. But i have no clue what to make my decorations out of and what to paint them with so if anyone could please give me some help or guidance it would be highly appreciated. Also i want to do another tank themed out like graffiti but how can i make the stuff safe for the lizard cause i dont want any more deaths.
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I did what you asked in your original post. I gave you a website filled with tutorials, and all the items you need to make such decorations, including MATERIALS, which you asked for. In no way am I insulting your intelligence so don't take it that way.
So pretty much all you have to do is:
1. Come up with an idea IE: your graffiti styled tank
2. Draw what you would like on a piece of paper as blueprints.
3. Go down to your local hardware store and buy some Styrofoam, Grout, and water-based paints.
4. Carve out the structure you would like in the Styrofoam, go over it with grout, and then paint it. Let it dry for 24 hours so there are no fumes and you're done.
Yea, i get ya, my bad we started off the wrong foot. Im Justen, im 15, currently enrolled in college (yea college at 15 its some crazy stuff) and i got 2 lizards. Thanks for the site and now that i actually went through it i see it is what i asked for and i was speaking out of my a** before i looked into it, i basically took it wrong and i apologize for my previous remarks. Thanks for your help and your second posting is more what i was looking for thanks for your time.
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It's alright, well whatever you decide to do with your tank, good luck. All those steps I previously posted are pretty much the most basic steps, and you can pretty much do WHATEVER you think of.
For your graffiti design, you can get a pretty big piece of cardboard and cut it to the size of your tank. Then buy a bottle of spray paint, and get creative on it. Draw a design or something, and then you can attach it to the back (still inside) of your tank, and that can be your background. Then you can take your empty spray can (or 2) and somehow attach it to your background, so that way it is sort of like a step. Then you can get Styrofoam and make some structures for your gecko. An idea is maybe make the front look like a brick wall, and you can spray paint on that too like it's a tagged wall but make it look like it has a couple bricks missing on the bottom so that your gecko can crawl under. ( it would be more like a box, but the front looks like a brick wall.)
Godd luck
For your graffiti design, you can get a pretty big piece of cardboard and cut it to the size of your tank. Then buy a bottle of spray paint, and get creative on it. Draw a design or something, and then you can attach it to the back (still inside) of your tank, and that can be your background. Then you can take your empty spray can (or 2) and somehow attach it to your background, so that way it is sort of like a step. Then you can get Styrofoam and make some structures for your gecko. An idea is maybe make the front look like a brick wall, and you can spray paint on that too like it's a tagged wall but make it look like it has a couple bricks missing on the bottom so that your gecko can crawl under. ( it would be more like a box, but the front looks like a brick wall.)
Godd luck
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