Enclosure size

[xFenrir]

Our girl is close to 6ft, and she's in a custom enclosure: 6ft long, 2ft wide and 3ft tall. We added the height to put in a climbing "tree" with a hot spot.




We used pre-coated melamine wood and disassembled an aquarium to make the glass panel for the UTH. I strongly recommend just getting a thick enough glass piece cut for you unless you know what you're doing; it took us close to 3 days and a lot of effort to dissolve the clauking on the aquarium, but the first piece of glass we bought actually shattered when tested with heat. Since we've used UTH's on aquariums before, we knew it would work. It's actually two aquarium pieces together and it's held for over a year, no issues. The doors are actually vertically-opening windows that we stood on their sides. They swing out like doors and have the bonus of having a locking mechanism. The side panels are plexiglass. The light has a metal screen over the opening so she cannot touch the light/bulb. We drilled ~5 ventilation holes on each end of the enclosure. (Ignore the analog dials, we got a infared temp gun and a digital humidity reader, but never took the dials out. I have no idea why they were even put in there in the first place.)

She doesn't seem to climb much, we'll see her up there occasionally, but usually she goes up, looks around, and comes back down. But it's a handy way to get her back into her enclosure, since it's a lot easier to just direct her onto the "tree" than try and pry her off your arms, lol. The taller you make it, the harder it will be to heat, trust me. The UTH at the empty side makes a nice hot spot and keeps that side warm, but we have to have the light over the "tree" on a timer to keep the other side warm enough overall. It keeps humidity wonderfully, though!

Hope this gives you ideas!