The Floor Sank in Six Weeks: A Post-Mortem on a Collapsed Polymer Layer
Six weeks after building my largest vivarium, a 90 cm paludarium-style dart frog tank, the front of the floor visibly dropped by nearly 3 cm. The plants leaned, the cork background gaped at the top, and pressing a finger into the substrate revealed a mushy band over a hard, water-logged slab. The po…