Natural enclosure set up question

Hey all!

I was wondering if you are able to paper mache hides and rocks, etc
instead of using polystyrene? I find it hard to create a "rocky"
texture! I mean it will be grouted and sealed after wards but I used to
paper meche alot for my GCSE Art and I think I could create some really
neat stuff!

And If I was to put live plants into the enclosure, what about watering them? What about drainage and such?


Thanks

What type of substrate have you got? If you weren't planting your plants and were keeping them in some kind of easily draining pot as most people do then you could just take them out, water them, let them drain a little, then pop them back in. I wouldn't recommend planting them firmly.
Hope this helps

Now paper mache is not one that I ever thought of but as long as you seal it with modge podge or something like that and made it thick enough to be strong enough I don't see why it wouldn't work. Let me know how it works out if you try it because I may infringe...lol.....on your idea. I make many of my own decorations but usually use styrofoam and grout.

As for the plants I make rocks or something like that that has a hole in it that I can plunk a potted plant into so that I can take the plant out and water it and then as Jess said once it has drained, put it back in. To be able to mist the plant enough to keep it healthy, it would be too moist for the leo and it might get a respiratory infection which can be very serious in a leo. however you place them in though I would definitely stick to potted.

Whoops! You learn something new everyday.

Air plants are also a great way to use real foliage with out having to water. You just mist those occasionally.

How much do you have to mist them? And how often?