The Internet Is NOT For Porn, It's For Building a Vivarium



Although the broadway puppet comedy Avenue Q proclaims that "The Internet is For Porn," the lyrics are very wrong-- the internet isn't for porn, it's for nerds, and so when Saturday's unexpected winter storm aborted our plan to go lizard shopping, and I started browsing around on the internet, I ended up learning how to build a self-cleaning bioactive small lizard vivarium-- and so now Ian's Xmas lizard has morphed into a much more fascinating project: we ordered lots of weird stuff on Amazon, such as Hydroballs (lightweight expanded clay terrarium substrate) and substrate mesh and New Zealand moss and a magnetic shelf feeding bowl and a UVB bulb and several other layers of substrate and a thermometer and a cork round and I researched the proper plants to put in the vivarium and we're going to eventually add springtails and isopods, which will eat the lizard feces . . . so what I initially thought was going to be a little jail cell for a lizard is now going to be a deluxe crib . . . and all because of those folks willing to nerd it up on the internet . . . check out the above video for some terrarium porn!

5 comments:

Lecky said...

I've lived with you and too many of your pets to surmise this might not end well...

Dave said...

this time we're doing it right!

zman said...

I had something like this when I was a kid (surprise) but more aquatic because I had newts and salamanders and a crayfish I caught in a pond.

rob said...

radar love lizard returns!

Dave said...

oh boy . . . he's going to want vengeance

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