Closed Chamber: Leopard Edition

Elohi said:

Nice job!!
Did you secure your tent down the Velcro strips?

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I did but the sides wouldn't pull down far enough so I cut a clear shower curtain into foot wide strips and taped them to the cover and other shower curtain I used as the liner (like you did) so it was more sealed to hold in the heat and humidity. There are air holes of course. I live where its hot and very humid but this helps

I had to hide these pictures from my other torts because they would be soooo jealous!! you are doing such a great job with them and they look fantastic!! Keep up the good work!

@JBurer
Here is my indoor setup for my yearlings (and juvi).

Greg T said:

I had to hide these pictures from my other torts because they would be soooo jealous!! you are doing such a great job with them and they look fantastic!! Keep up the good work!

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Thank you Greg!

What brand of fogger are you using? Or is it a humidifier? Is it a cool or hot humidifier if so? Looks great!

Much easier to keep heat and humidity in here than his former habitat. And of course even more now that its warmer and more humid here now. Murphy Abrams (a 15 month old Greg T baby too) is loving this!! And me too thx

@wellington

I'll post some more pictures here of how the lighting is mounted.

Also, it take significantly more substrate than you might think lol.
If I remember right, it takes 12 coir bricks. If you're using reptibark on top, it will take 3-4 bags of the 24quart sized bags.
Are you double stacking the beds or single? If you're using it as singles, table cloth clips work great for holding your liner in. It requires 2 packs of them.




I'll post the lighting pictures after coffee lol.

I plan on getting this as well assuming my tort pulls through. It's like the perfect indoor setup.

Sorry for the delay @wellington

Here are a couple of pictures.

What a beautiful enclosure & practical too! Well done

I might have missed something -- how do you prevent the substrate from contacting the floor since it doesnt seem to have a bottom?

byviolet said:

I might have missed something -- how do you prevent the substrate from contacting the floor since it doesnt seem to have a bottom?

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Look closely at the bottom, you'll see the bed sits on a piece of plywood on the carpet

Plus, the liner keeps the substrate from having contact with the plywood.

We just set up ours a couple weeks ago. We had gotten this idea from the Leopard Tortoise Breeder themselves. It works really good! As for the bottom we went to home depot had them cut a piece of plywood for us. Then we used garage floor paint in order to avoid any chance of mildew. Then after installing the floor we put Visqueen instead of a shower curtain (we didnt think about the shower curtain until afterwards) . It is perfect! keeps in the humidity and heat!

Old thread, but great enclosure! Newbies will benefit from the thread bump... What wattage CHEs do you use in here?

Thanks for bumping this! Love it!

SoCal said:

Old thread, but great enclosure! Newbies will benefit from the thread bump... What wattage CHEs do you use in here?

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60-100w on thermostats.

I must be missing something. What is the plastic with zipper you have for the top?

Oh nevermind! I just looked it up and it comes with it. How cool is that!

I'm ready to move in, that looks cozy!

I still loooove this set up too! I owe you big time for posting this! Mine is outside much of the time now but this set up is still amazingly practical!!