Our Beginning
The idea for Blue Ark begin when we realized there was a problem in the reptile keeping world; good backgrounds are either too expensive or too time consuming and complex for the average reptile keeper. On the other side of the spectrum, affordable backgrounds are often cheap and ugly looking, like vinyl clings. This leaves many of us with blank backgrounds, ruining otherwise great builds. This is the problem we set out to solve.
Building a Better Background
Looking at the options available for backgrounds, we realized most were just slight variations of the same idea. Foam cutouts pretending to be rocks, vinyl clings pretending to be forests and deserts, dyed plastic pretending to be leaves and vines, why do backgrounds always have to pretend to be something they're not? We decided to think outside the box and come up with something fresh.
Vistas are Born
After trying, failing, and trying again many times, we came up with Vistas. Vistas are poplar wood hexagons coated in a non-toxic water-based paint with colors matching different environments. Sleek, easy to use, and affordable, they offer a new way to add color to your background. They look great because they are simple, and they don't pretend to be something they're not.
