Ridge Tailed Monitor Enclosure Build

[Rogue5861]

Lots of spots to hide in and get away from heat if they want, top of back wall is about 35c an ground about 24c. In the logs are around 20c.


Rick

 

[Rogue5861]

Lights have been bumped down to 42w bulbs and im happy with temps. Will be running the stack lamps for 12hrs and 4-8hrs for the top ledge.

Gonna start playing with different time settings on the weekend, to give a little better transition for dawn an dusk.


Rick

 

[Crazycow232]

Now all you need are some ackies

 

[Rogue5861]

Now all you need are some ackies

Yep. Hatched about a week ago so ill have them soon


Rick

 

[Rogue5861]

A photo of one from the first clutch, cant wait till i have a couple of em running around.


Rick

 

[intoxicated88]

so that will house them as adults?. looks great.

 

[Rogue5861]

so that will house them as adults?. looks great.

Should do, floor space is around 1200x600 with alot of usable space with branches and background.


Rick

 

[intoxicated88]

hey mate just want to ask a few more question's cause i am thinking of getting a monitor soon.
with the flood lights what type of bulbs did you use and do you need flueroecent for night times or would a CHE and a UVB light do the trick.?
and how thick should i have the gaps for the rete's stack and should it be re-built when there adults.

sorry for all the questions just so much to know about caring for these thanks
love your enclosure hope i get a result like that on mine

 

[Rogue5861]

hey mate just want to ask a few more question's cause i am thinking of getting a monitor soon.
with the flood lights what type of bulbs did you use and do you need flueroecent for night times or would a CHE and a UVB light do the trick.?
and how thick should i have the gaps for the rete's stack and should it be re-built when there adults.

2x 42wg9 bulbs per lamp (168w of heating), giving a spot of 70c. 2x 18w fluros, ambient temps sit around 40c up top and 28c on ground level. 204w total.

Night time i wont be heating at all. If i did need to i would use a CHE. CHE are good for ambient temps but not so much as basking lamps.

I currently have stack gaps at 18mm, i will most probably have to increase the gaps as they grow but they do like tight spots so i will see how they go as they increase size.



Rick

 

[intoxicated88]

cheers a heap mate thanks.
is there anyway you could link me to were i can get the lights cant find them would they be at bunnings.

 

[Rogue5861]

cheers a heap mate thanks.
is there anyway you could link me to were i can get the lights cant find them would they be at bunnings.

Sent link via pm.


Rick

 

[SnakeRanch]

Great thread Rick.

Very informative for anyone wishing to something simillar

 

[andynic07]

Rick

I really like your enclosure but think I would prefer the background this colour. Very well done mate.

 

[Rogue5861]

I really like your enclosure but think I would prefer the background this colour. Very well done mate.

Colour in the picture looks good but it was alot more black then it looks, i think it was the combination of iphone 4 camera and the yellow fluros that made it look that colour. I agree though that colour would of been great.

Im slightly colour blind and have no skill with painting or shading (can paint a wall with a roller tho lol), ended up just using oxide colours.


Rick

 

[andynic07]

Colour in the picture looks good but it was alot more black then it looks, i think it was the combination of iphone 4 camera and the yellow fluros that made it look that colour. I agree though that colour would of been great.

Im slightly colour blind and have no skill with painting or shading (can paint a wall with a roller tho lol), ended up just using oxide colours.


Rick

Yeah it still turned out great and my rock wall is a similar colour but what i did with mine because I am no good at painting was lightly sprayed black paint over the wall and then put the last coat on and you can slightly see some of the black through. I also used stuff called liquid sandstone instead of render, not sure if that would be suitable for monitors though.

 

[Rogue5861]

Yeah it still turned out great and my rock wall is a similar colour but what i did with mine because I am no good at painting was lightly sprayed black paint over the wall and then put the last coat on and you can slightly see some of the black through. I also used stuff called liquid sandstone instead of render, not sure if that would be suitable for monitors though.

Just did a quick google on "liquid sandstone", says it stays cool to touch? Probably not the best if you wanted to heat up a ledge made out of it but seems like an easy product to use.

I was going to spray on black to add shadow and then add colour (i had silver, gold, brown, green, oche, black and white) but was to affraid i would stuff it all up and it would come out horrible.


Rick

 

[andynic07]

Just did a quick google on "liquid sandstone", says it stays cool to touch? Probably not the best if you wanted to heat up a ledge made out of it but seems like an easy product to use.

I was going to spray on black to add shadow and then add colour (i had silver, gold, brown, green, oche, black and white) but was to affraid i would stuff it all up and it would come out horrible.


Rick

I didn't want to get too fancy with the colours either as I am not too arty. I use a piece of black slate on the basking shelf for my bearded dragon. It doesn't really look like part of the wall but is a lot better for my lizard. It could probably be integrated a bit better if I had planned it from the start.

 

[Rogue5861]

Just notice this thread has had 2k views... Wow


Rick

 

[intoxicated88]

will i have to build it bigger due to living in NSW.??

 

[phatty]

if you colour blind it doesn't matter about the colours used as long is it looks good to you your the one looking at it every day