Going back to Tegus...Need new ideas

[jclaiborne]

Yep. Ok so here is my sticking point. Where do you find/what kind of track do you use for the glass doors? With the boa cages in the past that I built, I used a hinged door with framed acrylic, but would much rather have sliding glass for all my builds moving forward. Any advice?

Well it really depends on what materials you are using. If you are going with wood then I would search around for some 1/4in tracks that you can screw into the wood: http://www.mcmaster.com/#door-tracks/=xrlmtw

If you are going to do glass I recommend going the tempered glass route. That was pushed on the monitor forum quite a bit.

Just one word of advice to think about. I have sliders on all my smaller cages, they work great for the all of my other lizards, but when I had the Tegu in the smaller cage she was constantly shoveling dirt into the tracks making it impossible to slide open and closed, mind you this cage had a 6 inch barrier before you could even get up to the tracks, they weren't ground level, which is why on her big cage I went the hinged route. I would much rather have sliders but she already proved it would be a pain to constantly vacuum out.