Best Way To Make a Natural Look Stream?

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Hi everyone,

I am trying to look into various ways of making a natural looking stream in a Terrarium, I shall be doing this for most of my new Tank builds for collection from Mantella to Tylototriton.

I saw someone suggest a method of using both Expanding Foam and Polystyrene carved and covering it will Epoxy Resin or Aquarium Grade Sealant, anyone used this method?

Please bear in mind I want this to look completely "Natural" so I am trying to avoid using Piping really. I will be using E.N.T style terrariums with False bottoms for most of the animals but some won't have this.

Thank you all in advance,

TyloGuy
 
The epoxy resin over foam works. I would use the black pond great stuff and imbeded substrate and any rocks in the foam before epoxy though.
 
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I have seen something similar to this using a similar pump and cleverly hidden pipes in the background. Pumps the water from a well at the bottom of your tank and carries it across the tank then spouts it out on rocks using a piece of glass on another forum. Into a water section across the front of the tank on a cycle.

Also seen some one using the back of the cork bark to create a stream.
If that helps.
Also every thread mentions that black pond spray.
 
Well this was not a false-bottom tank and descriptions are in polish, but perhaps you can get some idea from my previous streamtype paludarium. If you have any questions, ask me here.
Paludarium strumieniowe

There are pictures on 1,2,3,4 pages.
 
I've used a lot of methods in the past, but for making a rocky background or false rocks I think that roof insulation (hard foam like Roofmate or Kingspan), which can be carved out and shaped easily, works best. I cover it with multiple layers of grout working from light to dark while using the "wash-method". Mix it with an adhesive polymere to let it stick even better.

This is one of the tanks where I used this method for:
http://www.caudata.org/forum/f1173-...89961-my-t-verrucosus-tank-just-finished.html
 
Thank you everyone!! :) I am looking into all the methods each of you have come up with so far which are all great ways of doing it! Looking into perhaps using Hard Foam like you suggested Niel which I may use the exactly like a waterfall (at the start of the Stream).
 
Interesting to see the outcome want to build a tank with a waterfall after exams.
 
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