I recently put together a paludarium for my oriental fire belled toads with aquarium safe expanding foam. It's had about 2 weeks to fully cure if not a bit more, I hade poked lots of holes in it about 5 days ago and foam finally stoped coming out and so I assumed it was cured, well after I put it together I am having second thoughts about it being cured all the way. I would love any thoughts or personal experience as well as if it is not fully cured what should I do and is it salvageable or will I have to fully take it apart. If it helps at all there's living bladder snails and springtails that definitely are doing bad in/on the water.
by TheBeetle_King
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Two weeks is a long time, should be plenty of time for it to cure.
Why are you having doubts? Looks good BTW!
I haven’t used expanding foam that isn’t cured within 24hrs, not sure what kind you have. Did you use it to create a base layer for your soil to sit on? I’ve never seen that before.
Use barbeque skewers to poke into where you suspect it being uncured. If it comes out dry, you’re all good.
Hmm, a week is plenty, never mind two. With mine I left it for about 48h, and then started sculpting, cutting off swathes of surface to give it a rocky appearance, which probably let it set much faster as air gets in much deeper.
I don’t think you to worry, but best poke it full of holes with a skewer or something.
It’s a really nice looking paludarium!