What Size Laying Bin for a Flapneck ?

[kplatvoet]

I'm upgrading cages and I need to add a laying bin for Clifford - She's a flapneck and I would prefer to go with square or rectangle - She will not be bred but I want to get it in before the move to her big girl cage and make it as easy as possible to get it in and out without bothering her. I'm afraid that I may not be able to avoid it being to wet or too dry -

 

[jannb]

I believe they are the same as for a veiled or panther. If she were mine I would use a 12 inch deep. Here's my egg laying/laying bin blog and Dez's video about setting up a laying bin.
https://www.chameleonforums.com/blogs/jannb/345-egg-laying-laying-bin.html
https://www.chameleonforums.com/laying-bin-set-up-educational-video-77225/

 

[kplatvoet]

How do you keep the moisture right in the bin once it's been added to the cage? Clifford thinks there is only one reason I should ever put my hand in her cage and that is to feed her - I'm slowing working on it but I hate stressing her out- and she's quite happy as long as I'm on the outside and she's on the inside-or if my hand has a silk worm but she doesn't like me messing with her stuff (like wiping the bottom of the cage or picking dead leaves out of the plants) I'm still hoping she's a boy as that is what I ordered but there aren't any spurs and she hasn't got a bulge -
I was thinking of trying to have it more under the cage than in it - so that most of the bin is actually in the cabinet under the cage and splitting the cage floor so that the half that doesn't have the laying bin can slide out and is easy to wipe down.
I was thinking of using a 8 X 12 (W & D) that's more than 12 inches deep but only having about 4 to 6 inches above the bottom of the cage level so I could drop it down into the cabinet to clean out any dead leaves or other things that might get in it - but I worried it might be too small - and I thought about the laying bins that fit under the dragonstrand cages but I'm afraid it would get to wet. I run my mister more than I might if I only had a flapneck or the panther because of the Jackson -and rely on my drainage to make sure the cages dry out in between.

 

[jannb]

You can point the mister nozzle away from the laying bin and that might help. About every 10 days or so I freshen up the laying bin. I use a big wooden spoon and stir up the sand really well. I add water as needed and cuntinue to stir. I gently pack it back down and dig a tunnel with a tablespoon all the way to the bottom and make sure the sand will hold a tunnel and not collapse on my female. I leave the tunnel that I dug and often my females have used that tunnel and just modified it to their own liking.

 

[kplatvoet]

I have a rain dome so it may be easier for me to figure the placement - Do you think 8 inches wide will be big enough or should I think bigger and or longer? She's not as big as a veiled - still smaller than Tate and about 5 months old.

 

[jannb]

I have a rain dome so it may be easier for me to figure the placement - Do you think 8 inches wide will be big enough or should I think bigger and or longer? She's not as big as a veiled - still smaller than Tate and about 5 months old.

That should be wide enough.

 

[kplatvoet]

So - I went to Lowes yesterday and found one size tub that I would work for my purposes but was clear and another that the more I think of it the more it makes me think I'm becoming one of "those" people who don't listen to good advise when offered - I'm worried I it may be too small and I'm just liking it because it looks nice but I should change it to the bigger one and keep looking for one that isn't clear-
What do you think ? The picture shows how I was going to set it up so but I can change the size of the tub to something bigger or keep it - it's 10 inches across and it's over 12 inches deep - with most of the depth going down into the cabinet-