Blackstik
Active Member
Hi All,
It's time for my Yearling jungle and 2 yr old Woma to get new houses, and I've decided I want to get it just right for them. My fiancee's dad is a builder and he's particularly good with wood, so we are going to get him to build us one as a Christmas present. I'm not really very good with handyman-y type stuff so I'll help him where I can, but that won't be much. Anyway, I've been playing around trying to work out some dimensions for the enclosures and I think I've knocked up a fairly decent plan, I was just wondering if I could get some people who know more than me about building these kinds of things to give me some feedback?
I've gone with LED lighting strips and radiant heat panels because my woma seems to think he is arboreal, I occasionally see him wrapped around the cage around the ceramic heat emitter, and sometimes around the compact fluorescent globe I use for lighting and I worry he might fall and hurt himself, or break the light globe. I also think it's a bit more aesthetically pleasing to get rid of the globes dangling down into the enclosure, but that's just me. Also there's the lower power consumption and heat emission from the LEDs. I got the advice about the heating panel size/placement directly from one of the guys at proherp when I emailed, they were very helpful and got back to me right away, even on a Saturday!
There will obviously be branches in the Jungle enclosure, and some decorative stuff, plus multiple hides etc in both but I thought I'd get the basics ironed out before I move on to worrying that.
I'd love to get some some tips and advice on what could be improved. I'd also like to know where I should place the vents, as I've seen conflicting advice as to whether the higher one should be at the warm end or the cool end of the enclosures.I'm looking forward to hearing what you guys think.
Cheers,
Blacky
It's time for my Yearling jungle and 2 yr old Woma to get new houses, and I've decided I want to get it just right for them. My fiancee's dad is a builder and he's particularly good with wood, so we are going to get him to build us one as a Christmas present. I'm not really very good with handyman-y type stuff so I'll help him where I can, but that won't be much. Anyway, I've been playing around trying to work out some dimensions for the enclosures and I think I've knocked up a fairly decent plan, I was just wondering if I could get some people who know more than me about building these kinds of things to give me some feedback?
I've gone with LED lighting strips and radiant heat panels because my woma seems to think he is arboreal, I occasionally see him wrapped around the cage around the ceramic heat emitter, and sometimes around the compact fluorescent globe I use for lighting and I worry he might fall and hurt himself, or break the light globe. I also think it's a bit more aesthetically pleasing to get rid of the globes dangling down into the enclosure, but that's just me. Also there's the lower power consumption and heat emission from the LEDs. I got the advice about the heating panel size/placement directly from one of the guys at proherp when I emailed, they were very helpful and got back to me right away, even on a Saturday!
There will obviously be branches in the Jungle enclosure, and some decorative stuff, plus multiple hides etc in both but I thought I'd get the basics ironed out before I move on to worrying that.
I'd love to get some some tips and advice on what could be improved. I'd also like to know where I should place the vents, as I've seen conflicting advice as to whether the higher one should be at the warm end or the cool end of the enclosures.I'm looking forward to hearing what you guys think.
Cheers,
Blacky