SteveNT
Very Well-Known Member
Mine are in a glass exo terra at the moment. Haven't had an issue as far as stress, but the heat has been an issue. I've lived in old Queenslanders with bugger all insulation though, so it shouldn't be an issue in a modern home.
I've 1 small and 1 large Exo Terra (all glass except the lid) 1 URS (glass front & back, plastic mesh sides) and 1 Graeme Gow homemade (all timber, glass front, peg board lid) and they all work fine. Then again I live in Darwin and temps dont come into it.
For lizards, as long as they have somewhere to hide behind/under and it's in the tropics where the temps don't go too far below 20 degrees then fine.
For snakes, definitely a very big NO NO. Snakes get very stressed very easily inside transparent enclosures, even if it has a hide box, because the snake is not entirely sure of it's own safety with all that light coming in. I had a not-so-nice experience in 2010 with a male woma being kept in a transparent enclosure that I built myself from perspex. The snake took off half of the skin oils off it's back because it jammed itself under a very heavy water dish during a shed cycle. NEVER AGAIN and I strongly suggest the same for anyone else. NO. I will end up painting those perspex enclosures and maybe use them as incubators.
I find it's not a problem with plenty of fake foliage, hollow rocks, timber and astro turf at ground level. If all else fails they can (and do) get under the turf and the rubberised backing is very usefil in the shedding process. I find the more hiding places they have the more time they spend in the open. Confidence!
Sorry about your woma cobber, hope it's all better now.
Last edited: