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Post your homemade cages?
hey guys I'm looking to get into a wider cage, i was just interested who has made there own? I'm thinking about giving it a whirl.
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I am in the process of making one for my beardie. I am drawing it up in a CAD program and should be done with the rendering by Monday. I can post up a picture of that when its finished.
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Sadly I made the mistake of buying a 1.1 pair of w/c black tree monitors. Never truly acclimated and only survived about 6 months. It is 46" by 40" by 7' tall. I recently converted it to a grow operation for over wintering my chilli plants
Cost including the large glass was about 250$
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Wow that looks amaizing!
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I am in the process of making one for my beardie. I am drawing it up in a CAD program and should be done with the rendering by Monday. I can post up a picture of that when its finished.
That would be sick, love to see what you come up with!
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Good lord thats impressive!!
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Oh wow thats large, is there a certain way the wood needs to be treated?
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I just built a 48"x18"x18" cage that came out really nice. I don't like linking to image hosting services so I can't post pictures here.
It used to be that forums would let you upload a few pictures.
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This is the one my dad and I made 6 years back for a Bearded Dragon. Ended up selling it when we got out of Beardies. Wasn't the best but worked well and wasn't that expensive to make. Used some plans we found on the internet.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k1...customtank.jpg
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I just finished drawing up the frame in solid works. The frame will be built from 1in extruded aluminum and the siding will be 1/4in xpvc with glass sliding doors in the front. Here is a pic of the frame assembly...I will post the finished drawing as soon as its done.http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/03/08/aje5amuh.jpg
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I just finished drawing up the frame in solid works. The frame will be built from 1in extruded aluminum and the siding will be 1/4in xpvc with glass sliding doors in the front. Here is a pic of the frame assembly...I will post the finished drawing as soon as its done. http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/03/08/aje5amuh.jpg
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What version of SolidWorks do you use? We use it at work. Fun stuff lol
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What version of SolidWorks do you use? We use it at work. Fun stuff lol
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Haha yup this is my work liscence, but it's on my work laptop so I get to use it for personal projects on my own time, I am just now learning Solid Works so I figured a cage would be a pretty simple first design. I am using the 2012 x64 edition on a HP EliteBook Workstation. What about you? What do you use it for at work?
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Haha yup this is my work liscence, but it's on my work laptop so I get to use it for personal projects on my own time, I am just now learning Solid Works so I figured a cage would be a pretty simple first design. I am using the 2012 x64 edition on a HP EliteBook Workstation. What about you? What do you use it for at work?
We have the newest edition full version with I think 4 licenses. It does animation of the parts and all kinds of other jazz lol.
We build heavy equipment at our shop from scratch. I'm the machinist so I use a lot of the end product of solid works but we have an engineer that does all the Draft work.
This is what we make:
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/03/08/ru5u9yra.jpg
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We have the newest edition full version with I think 4 licenses. It does animation of the parts and all kinds of other jazz lol.
We build heavy equipment at our shop from scratch. I'm the machinist so I use a lot of the end product of solid works but we have an engineer that does all the Draft work.
This is what we make:
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/03/08/ru5u9yra.jpg
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That is awesome! I grew up in a Machine Shop (family run business) and my dad is the head machinist at the company I am at now, which is an R&D facility designing ventilators. I work in the Developmental Engineering sector as a Tech.
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That is awesome! I grew up in a Machine Shop (family run business) and my dad is the head machinist at the company I am at now, which is an R&D facility designing ventilators. I work in the Developmental Engineering sector as a Tech.
That's cool. I'm the lead machinist taking the place of a guy with 60 years of experience lol. Big shoes to fill. But every part on the machines I've made
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That's cool. I'm the lead machinist taking the place of a guy with 60 years of experience lol. Big shoes to fill. But every part on the machines I've made
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Thats awesome, I haven't worked with anything that heavy. We actually run on the opposite spectrum making tiny tiny parts. I will see if I can snap some pics and post them. First machine I every used was an old Mill (Tree) Then stepped up to a Rambaudi Mill, a MV-55 and some smaller bridgeport lathes. That was at my grandpa's shop that he started when he was 20 in his garage (still in business today) At this company we have a manual bridgeport mill and lathe and one CNC mill. Since its just an R&D facility its a lot of one off parts so we dont have a big shop.
**Sorry for the Thread Hijack.
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I've been dying to draw up my plans for building a vision cage system for my girls. I'm accustomed to Vectorworks, but I was using it on a student license that has since expired, and my old laptop can't handle the 30-day trial for the new versions.
That being said, if anyone would like to donate a set of plans to be for BP cages, hugely appreciated, lol! I don't wanna buy more materials than I need, but drawing up plans has been a huge barrier to actually budgeting out the materials.
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I've been dying to draw up my plans for building a vision cage system for my girls. I'm accustomed to Vectorworks, but I was using it on a student license that has since expired, and my old laptop can't handle the 30-day trial for the new versions.
That being said, if anyone would like to donate a set of plans to be for BP cages, hugely appreciated, lol! I don't wanna buy more materials than I need, but drawing up plans has been a huge barrier to actually budgeting out the materials.
Buying more materials or not enough was why I started drawing them up on SolidWorks. The cage I am doing right now is a 4x2x2 for my beardie that will have internal light fixtures. I don't know if most people will want to shell out the money for the extruded aluminum that I am using though.
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Oh wow thats large, is there a certain way the wood needs to be treated?[/QUOTE]
3 coats of stain and I applied 6 coats of poly. When you are holding around 80% humidity and 6" of moist substrate you can never be too safe
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Wow im extremely Jelous......
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3 coats of stain and I applied 6 coats of poly. When you are holding around 80% humidity and 6" of moist substrate you can never be too safe
lol oh ok i was wondering what finish and or chemicals would be safe to keep a snake in
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dwarf monitor cage
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So what did you use for the background molding?
Another question, does it matter what type of wood since it would be stained and sealed?
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I didn't make he back ground we have a company who does.yeah doesn't matter what you use if it's sealed .
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I see this is an older thread but, I wanted to get some ideas for my new cage. I want to put a bp in here. Any challenges / concerns? If nothing else, I can use it for my daughters Beardie. http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/15...17b14a8674.jpg
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There is a lamp fixture inside and a large hole in the back for the wires. The vents have a screen mesh over them on the outside.
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The dims measure 52" high x 48" wide x 24" deep. I was planning on using reptibark (I haven't had any issues with this substrate over the last year and keeps the humidity well ). I have a hide, water dish and a bunch of accessories along with a few large pieces of driftwood (my bp loves to climb and explore).
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here is mine. I started it shortly after I lost my father.
http://i1174.photobucket.com/albums/...bison/cage.jpg
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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.
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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.
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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
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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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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
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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!
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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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The RHP is on the far right side. The temp probe is placed just to the side of it against the wall and is about 4" above the floor. The ambient temp at 4" above the floor is 81f. From what others have told me is that the RHP will be hot to the touch and would only burn by leaving your hand on it. This should not be a problem for a bp since they don't hold to the ceiling of the enclosure. Mine is 2' tall and she rarely gets anywhere close to the top.
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Sounds like u got it all figured out perfectly. :gj:
I really love the way it looks. Hopefully one day u can post a thread of a diy for the cage or at least what u used to make it.
And I'd like to see a pic of ur snake inside of it as well :)
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