Enclosures you've built (for any animal)

[alykoz]

I really like the idea of creating custom enclosures for specific animals.
I'm curious to see what you guys have done!
I saw a great water monitor enclosure recently that uses a window as the door! great idea in my opinion. racks count too!

[MootWorm]

My first (and only!) VERY amateur build for my ball. Just a cheap 55 gal acrylic tank I got off of Craigslist, flipped on its side and added doors

[Pickenprod]

I like it! I don't have any custom enclosures (yet), but one day I want to make a few snake tanks out of wood and linoleum sheeting, with glass or acrylic doors. Then it'll be the best of both worlds, I hope.

Although I did sort of mess with my tree frog tank. It's one of those tall Exo Terra ones; I didn't like how the front doors obstructed the view, so I flipped the cage 180 degrees and moved the backdrop to the side with the doors! Now I view them from the rear side of the tank and just access it from the top

[AdamL8]

I had thought about doing that same type of thing with a tank that I got free. I ended up not doing it but yours looks nicely done.





My enclosure looks pretty bad right now because for some reason the ivy randomly decided to start losing a lot of leaves so it looks scattered and I haven't replanted the grass in several months. I want to do another big change in the landscaping of the enclosure but I don't have any good ideas just yet.

[John1982]

Here's an old turtle table I used for my manouria when they were young, later added a lid so I could rear tegus in it. Just used an old throwaway table, added some sides, stapled some vinyl flooring and it was good to go for the tortoises. The lids were just frames with hardware cloth stapled on and secured with hooks. I think the table was 4 x 3, pretty sure the tube light on there was 4ft.


Enclosure I built for the tegus when they outgrew the turtle table - it's 8 square feet. Since tegus are big diggers I have hardware cloth under the substrate to prevent escapes. There's some sewage tubing under the chair that goes down to an underground hide that's just a big tupperware box I can access from outside the enclosure. This enclosure is several years old now, I've since removed the underground hide and just let them overwinter inside.






Tortoises are outside year round now in a simple 12 x 12 enclosure. Sides are framed in 5/4 and lined on the inside with tin roofing so they can't damage the wood. Had some problems with them climbing/flipping on the sides so I added a lip/blocker around the edges and haven't had an upside tortoise since(knocks on wood). Will try to get pictures of their enclosure sometime if I can remember.

[grits]

Here's a few we've done.

Tort pen


Crested gecko table


Condro set up


Burm cages

[kat_black181]

These are all supppper nice!!! I wish I had the tools/KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS to do something like this!

[MootWorm]

Nice enclosures, guys! keep em coming!

[I-KandyReptiles]

I didn't build it initially but I did a lot to upgrade it.



As you can see it was an ugly color and the interior wasn't sealed.

Dad did most of the work



Lino inside



Happy boa

[Kona's Daddy]

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