Drainage....

[Scottandliz]

Just looking for suggestions about how to drain the water from the bottom of a wooden viv?

 

[Scottandliz]

Anyone....??

 

[Whatcamo]

Pics of the viv may help

 

[Scottandliz]

It's just a wooden bottomed viv.

 

[Lala0]

How solid is the base? Does it flex at all?

 

[myshed]

My normal approach with drainage layers in wooden vivs is to build an acrylic/glass tray to sit in the bottom of the viv, I normally build it in situ so the sizes are axact. Then you can either leave a syphon hanging out or drill a drain hole in the bottom and put drainage piping through this.
Once the acrylic/glass tray is in place you can either put a false floor of egg crate or similar above it to leave a drainage layer, or fill the bottom with hydroleca. Then you want a semi-permeable membrane, with your chosen substrate on top of this.

Hope this helps,

Dave

 

[Scottandliz]

Thanks for the replies.. It's solid wood, so no flexibility at all.

 

[Lala0]

Then I would go with the other idea above!