Benton1576
New Member
Hi and thanks for reading,
Im wondering, I want to make my own vivs as i can customise them to my own taste and size. I live in Europe and the weather here is really cold in the winter so i want to make wooden vivs to hold heat better. They will have screen front on them that I got from taking apart an Exo Terra 38. I want to make them 50X50X100. Im going to line the inside with pond liner to make them waterproof so the wood doesnt get mould etc. Im also going to be putting mesh at the bottom and making a drip tray to catch any water and feces. Im wondering if you guys think it will be a good idea.
These will be for my hatchlings so i will be making them with the option of placing a shelf in to make them smaller which can be removed as they get bigger. I would also like to use them for my adults as the dimensions are not a lot different from my glass (yes, GLASS, i dont like it either in case you try to scorn me!! lol) vivs which are 60X60X100. Im going to make my own canopy for the lights which will sit on top of the cages which will also be aluminium screen to prevent the heat from melting them. Do you think these sound ok?
Any tips on what wood i should build from? i would like to keep them as light as possible so i can easily move them if needed and as cheap as possible because i want to build 10 of them, 3 for my 3 males, 3 for my 3 females and 4 for the hatchlings.
As always, any advice is greatly appreciated and i do take notice of any critisism so please be honest, better to be critisised and do things correctly than to not listen and waste a lot of money and potentially put my Chams at risk!
Thank you in advance,
Mark
Im wondering, I want to make my own vivs as i can customise them to my own taste and size. I live in Europe and the weather here is really cold in the winter so i want to make wooden vivs to hold heat better. They will have screen front on them that I got from taking apart an Exo Terra 38. I want to make them 50X50X100. Im going to line the inside with pond liner to make them waterproof so the wood doesnt get mould etc. Im also going to be putting mesh at the bottom and making a drip tray to catch any water and feces. Im wondering if you guys think it will be a good idea.
These will be for my hatchlings so i will be making them with the option of placing a shelf in to make them smaller which can be removed as they get bigger. I would also like to use them for my adults as the dimensions are not a lot different from my glass (yes, GLASS, i dont like it either in case you try to scorn me!! lol) vivs which are 60X60X100. Im going to make my own canopy for the lights which will sit on top of the cages which will also be aluminium screen to prevent the heat from melting them. Do you think these sound ok?
Any tips on what wood i should build from? i would like to keep them as light as possible so i can easily move them if needed and as cheap as possible because i want to build 10 of them, 3 for my 3 males, 3 for my 3 females and 4 for the hatchlings.
As always, any advice is greatly appreciated and i do take notice of any critisism so please be honest, better to be critisised and do things correctly than to not listen and waste a lot of money and potentially put my Chams at risk!
Thank you in advance,
Mark
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