Wooden Tanks

I don't see good vents

I don't see good vents on the system. I have seen wood cages with cutouts for mesh vents or even the vents you see in central air systems. A few of these were even fan driven to keep the air moving.

Being a wooden cage, you could always drill some large bore holes and staple some screening around it. I would also caulk the interior edges of the screen to prevent food from getting out.

Hope this helps.
 
Yeh,

Well I was thinking of buying it and modifying it a little, but I'm concerned as they are not cheap and what if I mess it up lol.

I'm still looking at some mesh tanks though.

Thanks!
 
Tommy's VivExotic viv came with him It is wooden with vents at the back and glass doors. I cut a section out of the 'roof' with a jigsaw and covered it with wire so I could place his lighting outside and out of his reach. It has worked really well. The glass never seems to bother him - no reflection issues at all that I've noticed, and I would know if there was! When he sees his reflection or Amy there is a definite reaction, lol! Also to increase ventilation I use a wedge to keep the doors open a bit at each side - just enough to let air in but not enough for him to fit through, but I wedge them just in case he decides to make a bid for freedom. I have found that the humidity in Tommy's cage fluctuates more then the humidity in Amy's Exo Terra (all glass) viv.

With the wooden vivs you will need to seal around the joins inside with aquarium silicone so that water from misting doesn't soak into the wood and ruin the viv. I also used the sealant to seal a vinyl offcut into the bottom of both vivs, it looks nicer than a bare floor.

Edit - just looked at the link - those cages are used succefully over here. You may need to replace the bottom glass section with screen/mesh. There will be circular vents up the back wall too - its the largest version of the viv Tommy is in. I know that some people have made screen doors out of thin wood and flyscreen to replace the glass ones. When converting Tommy's viv I was advised not to replace the whole top as the heat would just escape straight out the top which kind of defeats the object. It would also make it harder to maintain humidity so I am glad I only cut out a section of the roof instead of just removing the whole top and replacing it with mesh/screen. For me, I would have trouble keeping humidity up enough in a screen cage so for me the wooden one is the best choice. The last couple of days Tommy's humidity has been hovering down at 40% until I mist.
 
Thanks Tiff.

This is a thick question, but how did you remove part of the top and did you just use aluminium mesh.

I really don't know what to do lol. Do you have a picture of Tommy's from the top or any picture?

Thanks!
 
My brother in law used a jigsaw to cut out a square in the top - Tommy has an all in one light. Originally I wanted a circular hole but it didn't work so we ended up cutting out a square instead, lol! I had some 1cm square cage wire that I bought in a sheet and cut a piece off and stapled it to the top on the outside with my mum's nail/staple gun (she uses it to rewire her guinea pig cages, lol! And for covering furniture). My original plan was to put the wire inside to sit the light down onto in the hole, but I felt it safer to fix it to the outside on top. I really wasn't happy about Tommy's light being in with him and wanted to get it out of there as soon as I could.

He drilled a hole first using a large bit so that the jigsaw blade would fit into the hole so he could cut outwards from that point. I had marked out the section on top that I wanted removing. If I ever needed to do it again I would probably try myself. I will try and get some pics - unfortunately I didn't take any pics at the time.
 
I use wood cages with plexi or acrylic doors and peg board sides and back. Its more ventilcation that is required. Next time I'm using solid plywood for the back. You dont need huge vents to get a chimney effect causing good air circulation. A few small well placed vents would be fine.
 
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