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I just received my second Reptile Basics enclosure yesterday. How about that!
I now have two of them, and I completely agree, they are excellent.
I was previously buying from AP, but got real tired of the long, LONG, wait for the enclosure to arrive. Never again, it's all Reptile Basics for me from here on in.
How did you put the heat panel in? I have a Pro-Products panel that I need to install as well and I'm looking for ideas.
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Re: New Reptile Basics 2x3 set up
Thank you for posting, looks absolutely fantastic! I'm waiting on a PVC cage from another seller but have seriously been considering the Reptile Basics cages. 3 weeks isn't a bad wait at all! Did the 2x3 come assembled? I'd be getting the 4x2x15" size and I'm pretty sure that comes in a flat pack.
BALL PYTHONS: 1.0 Pied/Clark, 1.0 Pastel Vanilla Super Stripe/Sunny, 0.1 Dragon Fly/Buffy, 0.1 Pastel Vanilla Yellow Belly/Cher, 0.1 BEL (Mojave Lesser)/Arya, 0.0.1 Normal/Norm, 0.1 Cinnamon Enchi/Peaches, 1.0 Cinnamon Calico/Yoshi, 0.1 Pewter Het Dreamsicle/Ariel
BOAS: 0.1 Dumeril's/Memphis, 0.1 BCL/Artemis, 1.0 BCO/Grimm, 0.1 Suriname BCC/Rhubarb
CORN SNAKES: 0.0.1/Mushu
MORELIA: 0.1 Bredli/Zelda, 0.1 Granite IJ/Bridget, 0.1 Caramel Diamond Jungle/Pixie
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I got a 2x3x1 and a 4x2x1 and both came fully assembled.
They really are pretty nice. At first I didn't think I'd like the acrylic swinging doors, but now I'm totally sold. My AP T8s all have the sliding glass, and they rattle incessantly. Even if I walk by the snake room I hear then rattle. I needed to wedge Q-tips in there to stop it but it looks hockey. The swinging acrylic, no problem.
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Re: New Reptile Basics 2x3 set up
The heat panel was a pain. I had to get smaller screws from Home Depot. Then I put the panel on top of the cage where I wanted it and drilled small pilot holes through the cage where the holes are for the screws in the panel. Screwing it in was a HUGE pain because I kept losing the screw in the panel itself and would have to fish them out. The screw hole in the panel don’t have walls down the side if that makes sense and it’s anout an inch into the panel. So you can lose the screws inside the panel if not careful. That was the hardest part about setting up and took me an hour.
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It did arrive fully assembled and safely packaged too.
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Re: New Reptile Basics 2x3 set up
Originally Posted by JRLongton
I just received my second Reptile Basics enclosure yesterday. How about that!
I now have two of them, and I completely agree, they are excellent.
I was previously buying from AP, but got real tired of the long, LONG, wait for the enclosure to arrive. Never again, it's all Reptile Basics for me from here on in.
How did you put the heat panel in? I have a Pro-Products panel that I need to install as well and I'm looking for ideas.
If you drilled the pilot holes, got new screws, flipped the tank upside down and had a screwdriver with a magnetic head to hold the screws it would make it a low easier. I got short screws at home depot that don’t go all the way through the tank
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Good ideas, all! I was thinking to use a blind nut, but that would take a bit more craftsmanship and time.
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Nice!
I like that a lot.
Enjoy the display!
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Re: New Reptile Basics 2x3 set up
I’m also waiting on my new Reptile Basics cage and Pro Products heat panel. For my existing Monster cages, I also placed the panel on top and predrilled the holes, but I used shorter bolts I purchased. I dropped the bolts through the top of the cage and secured the panel with acorn nuts on the inside. This way if I ever need to remove a panel, I don’t have to unstack the cages.
Other Snakes:
Hudson 1988 1.0 Colombian rainbow; Yang 2002 1.0 Corn snake; Merlin 2000 1.0 Solomon Island ground boa; Kett 2015 1.0 Diamond Jungle Jaguar carpet python; Dakota 2014 0.0.1 Children’s python
Ball pythons:
Eli 1990 1.0 Normal; Buttercup 2015 1.0 Albino; Artemis 2015 0.1 Dragonfly; Orion 2015 1.0 Banana Pinstripe; Button 2018 1.0 Blue Eyed Lucy; Piper 2018 0.1 Piebald; Belle 2018 0.1 Lemonblast; Sabrina 2017 0.1 Mojave; Selene 2017 0.1 Banana Mojave; Loki 2018 1.0 Pastel Mystic Potion; Cuervo 2018 1.0 Banana Piebald; Claude 2017 1.0 Albino Pastel Spider; Penelope 2016 0.1 Lesser
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Re: New Reptile Basics 2x3 set up
I’ve also got my panels secured with shorter machine screws threaded into T-nuts in the cage ceiling. Magnetic screwdrivers are super helpful for that installation. I also recessed the T nuts slightly using a 3/4” Forstner bit
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