Pooka's New House

[Pooka]

Hiya All,
Well I found an awesome deal on a 60 gallon terrarium with slideing screen tops and could not pass it up. I will be using it as Pookas House untill I can make a bigger terrarium that is more upright. I spent lots more on extra decor and lighting then I ever did on the new tank which caught me kind of of guard (and I'm still working on a uvb solution) Pooka seems to be OK with the new house, she is not hideing and she is still eating 10+ crickets a day so she must not be too angry with me. Here it is:

[wizsh1]

wow nice cage are those real plants?

[Zippy]

Great cage but too bad it isn't his permanent cage.

[dragosmom]

Nice set-up Pooka. That is exactly the set-up my daughter had for her CWD before we placed it with my abondoned 90 gallon set-up. Her dragon, Agua, was almost 3 years old and still living in it fine. You might try the ESU 7% UVB light. It will fit over the wire mesh side of your viv. You can usually get one on the web for $20.00 or so.

[Zippy]

Great suggestion dragosmom. It is a good home, where did you get it?

[Pooka]

dragosmom said:

Nice set-up Pooka. That is exactly the set-up my daughter had for her CWD before we placed it with my abondoned 90 gallon set-up. Her dragon, Agua, was almost 3 years old and still living in it fine. You might try the ESU 7% UVB light. It will fit over the wire mesh side of your viv. You can usually get one on the web for $20.00 or so.

Great! Thank you for the suggestion. I think what I would like to do, for the sake of just getting it over with, is to get a 48 inch flourescent strip light and snap a reptisun 5.0 in it. Problem is I cannot seem to find the 48 inch strip light anywhere for a decent amount of money (all I have found come with the stock flourescent tube installed whihc jacks the price a bit) I have not looked at any of the online retailer yet (seems like a huge task) Keep me updated if you run into a economically priced 48 inch strip

[spike]

That is a great enclosure, especially for temporary one. I can't wait to see when you have the pernament enclosure built and running

[dragosmom]

Pooka, you can find a 48" light bar at herpsupplies. com, but the problem with that is 1/2 of your bulb will be shining through glass ad thus ineffective. You are paying more for the bulb length and light bar and it's not doing your CWD any good. They are also heavy and will have to be removed everytime you want in your viv. If you want, you could rig up an internal set-up. The fluorescents don't generate enough heat to be harmful and it will be closer to your WD. Sometimes it's hard to do in an aquarium (cord problems). I use a 48" light bar with space on each end for incandescent lights (extra heat for winter temps). It uses a 36" Reptisun bulb.

[wdm]

nice cage ¿¿¿how do you keep the humidity up??? I had a heck of a time when my girls were in that type of setup.

[Pooka]

I keep the humidity up by running a humidifier in the bedroom and misting the cage a few times a day. My substrate orchid bark and moss. I also cover about 1/4 of the cage with a wet towel. I by no means keep a consistent 80% but its usually 50% (usually 65%) and I have it at 80% for parts of the day

[wdm]

thats great. Seems like I heard bark is an impaction risk gee seems like I am always going gee this is wrong that is sorry just try to point out things I have heard so others will know

[Pooka]

Yes bark is an impaction risk that is why I dish feed Pooka for the time being she only gets to 'hunt' when she is outside of her cage. I don't worry about the bark as an impaction factor too much because it seems EVERYTHING is an impaction risk (except carpet which runs the risk of broken or injured toes and humidity issues) Thanks for makeing sure I knew though, it behaviour like that that lets the new members know people care about the animals.

[Jimi]

i bought a fogger from petsmart for like 16$ its a small cheap 1 but the fog keeps the humidity way up

[skjonnhet]

Thats a nice looking set up. We have an all screen enlosure which takes time to keep the humidity up. We will be building a new one with wood walls. I have heard live plants help keep the humidity up,but it didn't work for us. Our water dragons killed our plants by constantly landing on them. LOL.

[Crystal]

one way to increase humidity with screens is to wet a towel and lay it over most of the screen. It keeps heat from escaping and also increases humidity.
Crystal