My First Custom Cage

[zeke]

SWEET looks killer... ok cool, thats what I was thinking of usein. I have a load of ceramic slate tiles that I scored for FREE.. I love free stuff.. lol

Cheers

[WakoNako]

@zeke. I love free stuff too! In total I have about spent about $10 in materials for this project. In total, I've spent closer to $60 in materials and tools however as I needed a Soldering Iron and Hot Glue Gun and Accurite thermometer and a couple other things that I didn't have just lying around.

Casa Del Greg. Now featuring file flooring throughout (mostly), Panoramic front doors and windows, Stylish door handles (every snakes most important accessory) and soon enough, an indoor water feature!!!

So we start with the draw handle.

Nothing too flashy, but it matches the ones currently in my room.


I had to cheat a little on the other side of the draw face. I could of cut the screws, but I decided two washers and a nut would be sufficient to make the screws the right size.


Doors installed and closed... yes, they do work lol.


Dry fitting the luxurious tile floor to test for sizes.


Installing the floor. Normally I would use a grooved trowel, but I figured Greg wouldn't complain and I was too lazy to go and get one out. Just means I need to leave it till tomorrow to do any other work.


Tiling finished for the most part. All the tile is stuck in except the last one. This one will be siliconed down atop the UTH so that in the event of it breaking, the tile can be easily removed to access the UTH.


Doors shut. Floor Laid. Handles attached.

I probably won't have a proper update again until Wednesday when the UTH is set to arrive in the mail. I think this thing weighs close to 80 pounds now though.

[zeke]

If its free it's for me!! is the color on the cage brown? In the one pic it looks silver, or it could just be my eyes messing with me. lookin good, you grouting too?

[WakoNako]

Outside brown, inside green.

I've done the tiling with 0 grout line, so i just pushed a bit of adhesive in the remaining gaps to seal them.

[zeke]

Outside brown, inside green.

I've done the tiling with 0 grout line, so i just pushed a bit of adhesive in the remaining gaps to seal them.

ok cool, then my eye were messing with me..

[WakoNako]

FlexWatt installed into cage.


Tile siliconed into place. I checked the specs, and the silicone I used can withstand temps ranging from -60 - +400 so I should be good.

Not many pictures tonight, but the enclosure is now in my room airing out and adjusting temps. Tomorrow I should be able to get some finalized pictures.

[zeke]

That is nice lookin, now I feel realllllly lazy, but yet motivated to start mine.. Great lookin cage.

Cheers

[WakoNako]

Appreciate your interest and all your comments Zeke.

But anyway.... Drum roll please...

It is done!?!?!?!?!?!!


This is my new thermometer hacked and attached to the side of the cage and working. The humidity is low here as I was playing around with locations for the sensor and water bowl. Currently its at 40% so I might still play around with it.


Greg's indoor water feature. I'm going to add more rocks around it, but they're currently soaking in water as I had them soak in a mild bleach solution for an hour to kill any nasties and clean them.


Cool side temperature probe and humidity probe glued to the wall just to the right of the water feature.


My cunning method of disguising the probes.


Heated side temp probe resting above the heat pad.


That probe too was disguised.


Greg's climbing stick securely glued into place.


The interior of the completed cage. It's missing a couple small hides and a snake, but they're in the other tank until tomorrow night.

[zeke]

Looks great. I started to draw up plans for mine.

Cheers

[suzuki4life]

you realize that flexwatt is not suggested to be ran above 95 degrees and it is not suggested to be encapsuled away from airflow per the manufacturer right?

I mean I figured if you weren't aware the manufacturer knows problems could occur if you do these things and do them anyway...then you can't complain if the cage catches fire....and it does happen. I have a vision cage with the results of a nice flexwatt meltdown in my shed.