Wooden enclosure

lickyoureyeballs · #1 04-27-2009, 01:24 AM

How do YOU feel about keeping Uroplatus in a wooden enclosure?

Jody Ettema · #2 04-27-2009, 03:42 AM

I keep my guentheri's in a sort of wooden enclosure. I don't how its called in English but it is a multi-layered material with hard waterproof coating. I have also used it for keeping uroplatus sikorae sameiti and it works very well. Just make sure if you want to keep your animals moist that no water can get into the wood. It depends on the materials you are using, but it easier to use for species that can be kept relatively dry, like guentheri or henkeli for instance.

Calfirecap · #3 04-28-2009, 12:08 AM

Good question, but I personally just can't see using wood for Uroplatus. Too difficult to keep clean. I used wood cages for herps back in the 70s, but then the only choices were aquariums or to build them yourself. There is a good selection of glass, plastic and mesh cages out there now at reasonable prices which in my opinion are much better all around. There are also some very tallented glass cage makers out there who can customize pretty much anything you are looking for.

Lawrence

gecko-kus · #4 05-03-2009, 06:40 PM

I have kept Uroplatus guentheri in melamine enclosures (I think thats what Jody was looking for). Always worked absolutely fine for me, and I got them breeding just as well in those as in the glass exo terra tanks.

lickyoureyeballs · #5 05-03-2009, 07:56 PM

I was worried about there not being enough ventilation. That hasn't been a problem with melamine?

Calfirecap · #6 05-03-2009, 09:14 PM

A,

If you are looking at using Melamine, yes that would work and you could add ventillation anywhere you pleased with a hole saw and attic ventillation plugs.
If you are looking for something for your henkeli, I've got a plexiglass cage I was working on, but was never quite satisfied with, that you can have.

Lawrence

allen · #7 05-06-2009, 07:10 AM

A lot of people in europe(i think) use multiplex, triplex wood...
The kind they use at construction when making a case to drop in concrete or something like that. This wood is also used for aquariums at shows. Not as fragile as glass and cheaper then glas. especially for larger viv`s, small viv`s are more produced so they cost less.

greetz
Allen