When I made these plastic "mushrooms" for my first custom vivarium, I didn't really expect my animals to use them, I just thought they'd be decorative. But my gargoyle geckos in particular seem to love laying on them just like this, so I've since added them to pretty much every vivarium I make. These are made with #instamorph ( @instamorphteam ) which is a moldable plastic that's just wildly useful. It's a bunch of plastic pellets you can heat in hot water, then mold into whatever you want. Dunk it in cool water to harden it up again, and voila, you're done. 😃 I make my mushrooms with a little pointy stem so I can push them into spray-foam backgrounds, but you could easily make it secure in other ways, and make all sorts of things. I'm thinking my next project might be making my own feeder ledges. You could easily embed magnets in this material, make perfectly fitted indents for condiment cups... if you wanted to secure with stainless screws to something like a flat cork or tree fern background panel, I reckon all you'd have to do is embed the screws in the soft plastic, mold it tight around them, and when it cools and hardens, you'll have perfectly threaded holes built in. I want to try a LOT more vivarium decorations and supplies with instamorph, but I'm running low on the actual plastic and I want to get some of the coloring supplies to try making non-white things, so my experiments might have to wait until I have some more money (when will that happen? Never probably 😂). I'll try some small projects on the meantime so I don't use up all my remaining instamorph. You can also color this with alcohol inks and glow in the dark powder (!!!!!) but I'm not sure if either of those would be reptile-safe, so probably won't attempt that for anything going inside vivs, unless I can figure out what's safe to seal it with. #vivariumdecor #moldableplastic #customvivarium #gargoylegecko #reptilekeeping #herplife
