rhysmachine101
Not so new Member
Hi there everyone!
I'm Rhys and I have been silently stalking this forum for about 6 months now,(creepy, huh?) I have been really impressed with everyones DIY enclosures, so much so that i decided to make one for myself! Plus I wish to keep some Southern Angle Headed Dragons.
So I got out my average carpentry skills and started spending a lot of money ( I think I have been keeping the local Bunnings afloat for the last 5 months or so
) and I am nearly ready to start on the background of the enclosure! which is going to be the really fun part. I hope.
Anyway I will give you some specs on my enclosure, on the inside, the dimensions are 950mm high, and 600mm by 580mm on the x and y co-ordinates.
I have built in a rainwater system, which is in some of the pictures and it has a reservoir at the bottom which was a pain to get to stop leaking :cry: but I have seemed to have fixed that.
The cover that will hold the substrate of the enclosure out of the water is a bread crate I cut to size and is well wrapped with plastic flyscreen. I have a pump and a filter in the cupboard underneath that, which is visible on one of the pictures.
The pump supplies the rainwater system as well as the waterfall I intend to put in.
The picture of the side of the tank is where the water level and where i can refill the reservoir for regular water changes (there is a tap underneath where I can drain it).
I also have four small solar powered fans that I am going to install within the background so I can get some air movement within the enclosure.
Umm, I think thats all I can think of... So please let me know what you think so far and let me know if I can improve it somehow or if I've done something wrong!! anything at all!!! hurl the criticism my way! I can take it!
Plus does anyone have any ideas about what kind of background would be good? I mean it has to have a waterfall and a number of different levels(to make up for the lack of ground space) I was going to go the foam+greatstuff(expandafoam) rock approach but I know that Southern angles like limbs to climb up and some sort of canopy? to hide under? So any ideas or reference pics would be greatly appreciated!
![resize4.jpg resize4.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/aussiepythons/data/attachments/101/101542-8aa258228dbefb8bf800d2bfe9c791c8.jpg)
![resize1.jpg resize1.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/aussiepythons/data/attachments/101/101543-86ac96fd44c8f512a9498002e06327f2.jpg)
![resize3.jpg resize3.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/aussiepythons/data/attachments/101/101544-6d2bc9546458ca2f76751942b1c4538e.jpg)
![resize2.jpg resize2.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/aussiepythons/data/attachments/101/101540-b3f382208090d2b5e218c7d49d811d19.jpg)
![resize5.jpg resize5.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/aussiepythons/data/attachments/101/101541-e4c04b5125f8badd993ce0f3ad7942af.jpg)
Thanks for reading! I know its a really looooooong post!
Sorry!
I'm Rhys and I have been silently stalking this forum for about 6 months now,(creepy, huh?) I have been really impressed with everyones DIY enclosures, so much so that i decided to make one for myself! Plus I wish to keep some Southern Angle Headed Dragons.
So I got out my average carpentry skills and started spending a lot of money ( I think I have been keeping the local Bunnings afloat for the last 5 months or so
Anyway I will give you some specs on my enclosure, on the inside, the dimensions are 950mm high, and 600mm by 580mm on the x and y co-ordinates.
I have built in a rainwater system, which is in some of the pictures and it has a reservoir at the bottom which was a pain to get to stop leaking :cry: but I have seemed to have fixed that.
The cover that will hold the substrate of the enclosure out of the water is a bread crate I cut to size and is well wrapped with plastic flyscreen. I have a pump and a filter in the cupboard underneath that, which is visible on one of the pictures.
The pump supplies the rainwater system as well as the waterfall I intend to put in.
The picture of the side of the tank is where the water level and where i can refill the reservoir for regular water changes (there is a tap underneath where I can drain it).
I also have four small solar powered fans that I am going to install within the background so I can get some air movement within the enclosure.
Umm, I think thats all I can think of... So please let me know what you think so far and let me know if I can improve it somehow or if I've done something wrong!! anything at all!!! hurl the criticism my way! I can take it!
Plus does anyone have any ideas about what kind of background would be good? I mean it has to have a waterfall and a number of different levels(to make up for the lack of ground space) I was going to go the foam+greatstuff(expandafoam) rock approach but I know that Southern angles like limbs to climb up and some sort of canopy? to hide under? So any ideas or reference pics would be greatly appreciated!
![resize4.jpg resize4.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/aussiepythons/data/attachments/101/101542-8aa258228dbefb8bf800d2bfe9c791c8.jpg)
![resize1.jpg resize1.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/aussiepythons/data/attachments/101/101543-86ac96fd44c8f512a9498002e06327f2.jpg)
![resize3.jpg resize3.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/aussiepythons/data/attachments/101/101544-6d2bc9546458ca2f76751942b1c4538e.jpg)
![resize2.jpg resize2.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/aussiepythons/data/attachments/101/101540-b3f382208090d2b5e218c7d49d811d19.jpg)
![resize5.jpg resize5.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/aussiepythons/data/attachments/101/101541-e4c04b5125f8badd993ce0f3ad7942af.jpg)
Thanks for reading! I know its a really looooooong post!