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karen
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Just wanted to thank everyone here for their advice, support and inspiration. This past weekend was totally devoted to my newts; I spent 3 hours on friday going to 5 pet stores buying food and looking around for new cool stuff for their home. Then spent Saturday putting together a new tank stand (although I hate the assembly process, especially when the parts are not all labelled!) and cleaning their tank and moving it to their new location. Anyway, while looking around for neat aquarium stuff, I couldn't help but notice that alot of the stuff sold is either really fake looking or really tacky and I figured I could do better. So, after seeing so many wonderful things here that people set up and made, I took my first baby steps to create something. I purchased a small half-log from one store and used aquarium glue to attach white and black stones to it (to match their white gravel bottom)...I must say, it looks pretty cool and I'm just waiting for the acetic acid smell to fade (its been 48 hrs) before putting it into their tank. The colors are cool and it will provide them with a nice little tunnel/hiding spot. I don't think I would have attempted to do this without all the great things I've seen on this site.