Aluminum or cloth screen cage?

[Lamour]

I've been looking into a good and cheap screen cage for my veiled chameleon and have found a few great sites but which would be better, plastic coated aluminum or cloth mesh?

How does everyone water and feed their pets in a screen cage? I'm afraid he will have trouble hunting his crickets in a tall screen enclosure and I have the monsoon system so won't it spray all over my room if I get a screen cage?

Also if anyone has information about digital thermometers and hydrometers I've been looking for some good ones but don't really know what to look for. Do I want one with a probe and just leave it on in the cage or do you just use it to check every so often?

 

[giaindell]

i made my cage with the rubbery screen and its doing just fine and your cham cant get hurt by it

 

[justjumpit621]

I have had both cloth and aluminum and I prefer the aluminum. The cloth reptiarium is a bit cheap looking and the zipper gets caught in the cloth. The aluminum reptibreeze is more solid and doesn't use zippers, and it is easier to make a drainage system for. To solve the water issue... put the mister nozzle in the front right corner of the cage(door should open outwards to the right, if not switch corners) and put up plastic painters cloth on 2 outer sides, the sides the mist would be spraying at. that way it will hit the plastic and fall down into your drainage system.

 

[baby2by2]

material

I also would like to know aluminum or nylon screening?

 

[Black Panther]

If you put your crickets in the cage to free roam, they will chew threw the cloth. Go with the aluminum screen cage. Also if it is over spraying outside the cage, two sheets of clear shower curtain in the sides will do .

 

[Hoj]

I use aluminum sceen on all my cages.

 

[Benton1576]

Someone once advised me that the fibreglass screen I was going to use on my DIY cages was not good as the crix would eat their way through it. So far Ive had to replace 3 of them, so aluminium is the way to go if you dont want crix in your house. I only recently managed to find black aluminium screen in the UK so I'll be replacing all mine soon!