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Post your homemade cages?

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  • 04-02-2015, 12:48 AM
    Austin.172
    Re: Post your homemade cages?
  • 04-02-2015, 12:49 AM
    Austin.172
    Re: Post your homemade cages?
  • 04-02-2015, 01:01 AM
    CloudtheBoa
    Here are my enclosures, they're both 6'x2'x3' (LxWxH). Altogether, they both costed me $2,000 to make and install heat. Just the enclosures themselves with no heating or anything, just the wood and doors they were $400-450 to make each. They aren't very impressively decorated unfortunately since they're a large space. I'm hoping to cut some wood for climbing in the BCI's enclosure but I'm not sure how to treat so it doesn't mold where it touches the bedding, or where to find large enough fake plants to take up room that aren't $30+ each.

    The height does cause problems for heating the floor to the desired 90F, which is why I want to include climbing so I'd only need to heat the floor to maybe 80F (my thermostats constantly make annoying clicking noises if I set them below 80F so I wouldn't set them any lower).

    At my father's house, where I actually had the room for both, they were stacked on top of each other with stilts. This is an old photo from before I installed CHE's on the opposite end.
    http://i1157.photobucket.com/albums/...pst1kyhydb.jpg

    Here's another old photo of the BCI in his, he was maybe 5'-5.5' at the time.
    http://i1157.photobucket.com/albums/...psegtfmyzx.jpg

    The ball python in his, during his initial set up while I was experimenting with it to see how much cover he preferred. He's about 3.5' and 1380 grams. Unfortunately, until we either rearrange and get rid of a few things or move, I do not have the room for his 6' enclosure as well.
    http://i1157.photobucket.com/albums/...psufsqij5x.jpg

    A more recent one of the BCI in his enclosure. He's 6'3" for reference.
    http://i1157.photobucket.com/albums/...ps7qbsqihc.jpg

    During the winter I have no choice but to cover the doors to maintain heat, otherwise it can drop as low as 65F, during the summer they're uncovered.
    http://i1157.photobucket.com/albums/...ps9f4664c9.jpg
  • 04-02-2015, 07:35 AM
    kitedemon
    Multiwall poly-carbonate.

    http://images108.fotki.com/v613/phot...1000673-vi.jpgHosted on Fotki

    alupanel, pvcx, birch ply.

    http://images60.fotki.com/v367/photo...closure-vi.jpgHosted on Fotki

    A couple of mine I own. I have built a number of others as well.
  • 04-21-2015, 04:40 AM
    Expensive hobby
    Re: Post your homemade cages?
    Not much to see yet in pictures but here is one of a stack of five enclosures I'm building for a customer measuring 4x8x2ft.
    http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/04...88b1ee3d74.jpg

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  • 04-21-2015, 07:33 AM
    Morris Reese
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  • 04-21-2015, 10:30 AM
    jclaiborne
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  • 04-21-2015, 10:50 AM
    DC+loki
    Kitedemon and Morris Reese: those are amazing.
    I'm wondering how you put all of it together.

    And I'm curious to see how the other ones turn out
  • 04-21-2015, 09:11 PM
    Morris Reese
    Post your homemade cages?
    I have step by step pictures, but it may be a picture overload!
    Just today I replaced the CHE with a Reptile Basics 80 watt heat panel. I didn't think they were hot to the touch, but ITS HOT!!! I checked it with a heat gun and its 194 degrees. Ambient temp at 4" above the floor is at 81 right now on the warm side and 77 on the cool side. That's not much of a variant I know, but I have a vent on each side that I can adjust. I can play with the cool side a bit to get a better variant. My question is should the RHP be that hot to touch?
    One thing is for certain....humidity seems better already!!! It actually went up a little with no misting!
  • 04-21-2015, 09:54 PM
    DC+loki
    Well its one of the best and most original I've seen. Looks classy...
    I'm not sure how hot it should be I have a heat mat placed under a glass tank and a lamp fixture as well and I kinda rotate them. The mat doesn't "kill" the humidity as much as the light bulb does. But I remember first few days we had the mat by itself it was ±105° on a 1 inch substrate.

    Where is the panel placed?
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