andymcballer
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Hey guys,
So here's a brief post on my home made enclosure. It's new so I'm still working out all the kinks or so to speak. It was relatively cost effective and measures out to 3"x3"x6.75". The plants are new so they still need to grow in/shape to the cage a good deal.for the top I used a small chicken wire type metal fencing material. The holes are square and about 1/2"-3/4" . Somewhere in between I don't have an exact measurement on it. It resists heat pretty well I've felt it after a full day of lighting and it remains a hair warmer than room temperature. I used that instead of screen so I wouldn't need to cut out for uvb to get through. And hopefully cut out all chance of burn risk. There is one beefy pothos on the right (its funny I got the bigger one at home depot which is twice the size for half the price over my neighborhood nursery. ) and a much thinner pothos on the left. And an umbrella plant that's pretty branchy and about 5 ft tall. Maybe 5'6" . Anyways the plant base has been filled with rocks since this. Next to it there's a cool mist humidifier and it keeps the humidity in the low 60 high 50's
And there's 3 distinct temperature zones I've been able to create the basking spot is always mid to low 80s. Then the middle upper zone is 75-80 and below that it stays in the low 70s . Sokar does frequent all 3. I have a pump up 1gal sprayer and I mist 3x daily . The live plants just work amazing for drinking. My little guy loves driinking from the umbrella plant. Ive got several sanitized backyard branches in there. And a flukers small bendy vine. The duck tape is from when I was bracketing the 4 walls together.
I call it Sokars ma m*upfp,pinkth old ambilobe from Bttyt. rian at crazy eyes chameleons. He LOVES it. He really seems to enjoy it if.
So here's a brief post on my home made enclosure. It's new so I'm still working out all the kinks or so to speak. It was relatively cost effective and measures out to 3"x3"x6.75". The plants are new so they still need to grow in/shape to the cage a good deal.for the top I used a small chicken wire type metal fencing material. The holes are square and about 1/2"-3/4" . Somewhere in between I don't have an exact measurement on it. It resists heat pretty well I've felt it after a full day of lighting and it remains a hair warmer than room temperature. I used that instead of screen so I wouldn't need to cut out for uvb to get through. And hopefully cut out all chance of burn risk. There is one beefy pothos on the right (its funny I got the bigger one at home depot which is twice the size for half the price over my neighborhood nursery. ) and a much thinner pothos on the left. And an umbrella plant that's pretty branchy and about 5 ft tall. Maybe 5'6" . Anyways the plant base has been filled with rocks since this. Next to it there's a cool mist humidifier and it keeps the humidity in the low 60 high 50's
And there's 3 distinct temperature zones I've been able to create the basking spot is always mid to low 80s. Then the middle upper zone is 75-80 and below that it stays in the low 70s . Sokar does frequent all 3. I have a pump up 1gal sprayer and I mist 3x daily . The live plants just work amazing for drinking. My little guy loves driinking from the umbrella plant. Ive got several sanitized backyard branches in there. And a flukers small bendy vine. The duck tape is from when I was bracketing the 4 walls together.
I call it Sokars ma m*upfp,pinkth old ambilobe from Bttyt. rian at crazy eyes chameleons. He LOVES it. He really seems to enjoy it if.
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