We have begun digging out an 8' x 8' hole for the new enclosure . It will be the same as brains home, except we are going to divide this one into two 4' x 8' enclosures for the babies. Hopefully it will be done by next week. I will update here

very nice good luck!

Now that is SOME digging!

(07-12-2012 04:34 PM)lynnedit Wrote:  Now that is SOME digging!

Lol, yes it was!! I didn't do any of it , but I DID give one awesome massage!

Laurie Wrote:Lol, yes it was!! I didn't do any of it , but I DID give one awesome massage!

Lol that's funny.

its crazy how different my dirt from your dirt is. My dirt is almost black. looking good though digging sucks haha

Just looking at those pics made my back HURT, I took another ultram.

Remind me again why your digging it all out, please. (Old mind here ya know)

is it a pond? or do you bury wire to prevent digging out?

We dug out the first one and now second for two reasons. The first is to bury wire to prevent digouts. Secondly, with the foot underground the dirt stays nice and cool to dig in when it's hot.

Now that I think about it, there's a couple more too . The whole thing is 2 feet high, instead of having a two foot high above ground, I like it better being only one foot above. We also just fill it back in with the same dirt that came out. The dirt here for the first six inches or so is very sandy, I like the consistency when you go deeper and churn it all together.

We were also able to put some gravel under the first one to help with drainage.

I guess that's more than two reasons! Lol

Nice job, looking forward to the finished pictures!

Cool, he has a basement!

I plan to do something similar next summer for my russian, expect there no way I can dig in Viginia clay.

We are going to be putting the babies in their larger permanent outdoor enclosure tomorrow! Still a bit to do, but we should be able to finish it in the morning Here are some more pics







We just have to finish putting the wire on top, we actually have three squares done, just one more left... Then some planting and decorating, the fun part!!
You can see from the pics that I also need to cutback some of brains' weeds... If only I had a sulcata to borrow

The whole thing measures 16' x 8'. Brains has his own 8' x 8' section and each baby will have a 8' x 4', will post more pics once its decorated!

I love your enclosures. You can use Brain's weeds to feed the babies until theirs come in!