Refurbishing a mammoth viv!!! (Pics) - Page 2

fenrisswolf · #11 (**permalink**) 10-08-2008, 04:41 PM

If you want to go large, and still stick to geckos, you could make it into a set of extra large leachie tanks!

cooper01 · #12 (**permalink**) 10-08-2008, 05:23 PM

I'm thinking of separating it into three tanks, each with about 9 cubic feet. Does every one still think that is to big for several of one species. I would love to make it a leachie tank!!!! Or at least one of them. I just don't have thousands of dollars to spend as i'm a poor grad student at the moment. If any one know where i can get some for cheaper, please tell me where!!! Thanks for all of the suggestions. Please keep them coming!

**Riverside Reptiles** · #13 (**permalink**) 10-08-2008, 05:48 PM

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Originally Posted by cooper01

I'm thinking of separating it into three tanks, each with about 9 cubic feet. Does every one still think that is to big for several of one species.

Again, it really depends on what species you plan on putting in them.

fickle · #14 (**permalink**) 10-08-2008, 06:38 PM

i wood go get some metal screen an make the lid i dont really know how to go around doing this but it looks like fun good luck

Dean · #15 (**permalink**) 10-08-2008, 08:54 PM

I would use a combination of glass and fly proof screening so uv can pass through the screen for your plants and animals right where the bulb is going to be. Or you can screen the whole top (light weight) and have fish tank glass tops all around except where the bulb is to help keep humidity up. I would also drill a hole in the bottom for drainage.

cooper01 · #16 (**permalink**) 10-08-2008, 09:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Dean

I would use a combination of glass and fly proof screening so uv can pass through the screen for your plants and animals right where the bulb is going to be. Or you can screen the whole top (light weight) and have fish tank glass tops all around except where the bulb is to help keep humidity up. I would also drill a hole in the bottom for drainage.

Does everyone else think that a drain is a good idea? I have not heard of doing such a think, but it sounds like a dynamite idea!!! I would like to have one humid viv on lets say the left most side, then a between viv in the middle, some thing thats semi humid, and then on the far right side, a desert viv. I sure that you all are going to hate that idea for good reasons, but I think that would look stunning in my house. I sort of worldy display. Thanks for all of the help!!!!!

**Riverside Reptiles** · #17 (**permalink**) 10-08-2008, 10:17 PM

What are the actual dimensions of the enclosure? And what's the bottom made out of?

cooper01 · #18 (**permalink**) 10-08-2008, 10:23 PM

The cage is seven feet long, by two feet wide, by two feet high. The floor is inch and a half plywood. Hope this helps. Did the three different viv types sound stupid?

Dean · #19 (**permalink**) 10-08-2008, 10:35 PM

Your going to have to make the floor water tight or you looking at big problems down the road with wood rot. I would put some kind of water proof material(rubber flat roofing EPDM). What ever you use it would have to be 100% water proof with a nice size drain hole or you will have a water problems. I think different environmental enclosures is a great Idea you can always change them.

John_E_Dove · #20 (**permalink**) 10-09-2008, 01:22 AM

I really don't see your enclosure high enough for an arboreal like Rhacodactylus leachianus, but if that is what you choose to go with (to your original question on lids) I'd go with a mostly solid cover on each section and only one animal per section given the size.
I envision a female at each end with a male in the center with removable dividers to facilitate breeding.