Plexiglass

[Croninking]

I'm planning on building an enclosure where I want to do the bottom half mesh, the top half glass. Would plexiglass stand up to my chameleon's claws (and not scratch) or do I need to use natural glass?

 

[NickTide]

It should hold up. Plexiglass does just naturally end up looking bad after several years though.

 

[Croninking]

Dang....natural glass is almost double the price :-/

 

[RobTheChameleonLover]

Dang....natural glass is almost double the price :-/

Dang how much more. Im a manager at a local hardware store where i live and glass is cheaper then plexiglass at my store. A lot cheaper.

 

[Chameleophlaged]

If I were thinking about building something like that, I'd start with an aquarium with one end broken $10 at a yard sale (I have a couple of those I'm sure) and hope It fit on top of a medium or large reptibreeze cage, but I'd plan on having to build a wooden frame lower half (to hold the weight of the aquarium).

 

[Croninking]

Dang how much more. Im a manager at a local hardware store where i live and glass is cheaper then plexiglass at my store. A lot cheaper.

Oh wow...yeah I just double checked and you're right. I'm not sure why I thought plexiglass was cheaper. Glass is like 1/10 the price of plexiglass on Home Depot's website.