If you are painting the wood I don't think you need to buy treated. The paint seals it for you. And I believe most caulks arnt paintable but if you are painting white you can use a white or clear caulk and then no need to paint. I personally use an all silcone formula for my torts enclosure.
UPDATE: Its been about 6 months. So far everything as been great. I think every enclosure of mine in the future will be getting lined with truck bed liner.
The screens had to be replaced with Lexan once the cats knocked them out about 3 weeks in. That caused a heat/humidity problem. To...
Been a while since the last post.... burnt out my soldering iron. Bought a small butane torch and finished up the shaping.
Covering in grout is soon to come!
One of my friends asked me to ID these torts for him. I know they are not his and not sure where he came across the photo. However I still insisted on telling him to never house torts on pellets as in the photo :) The best ID I can come up with is a Bowsprit tortoise (chersina angulata)...
Re: RE: Humidity issue?
Ty! Lots of hard work.
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Think I'm finally getting somewhere! With vents in and fully open humidty is good and temps only a tad high.
And pics of the vents
I ended up putting in 2-2"x12" floor registers in the top of the enclosure. One on each side and that way I can adjust the flow and hopefully create a temperature gradient.
I would remove the tomatoes and carrots. Carrot are very high in sugars and the totmatoes contain lots of acid. Greeks should be fed a wide variety of broad leafy greens and weeds. Kale is ok in small amounts. Dandelion and romaine are good choices. Some will argue romaine is more of a...
Re: RE: Humidity issue?
TY! that was my goal so my wife would approve of it taking up 1/2 our dinning room :) its got a 71"x40" footprint and stands 5ft tall
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Pic with the plexi-glass in
I'm basing my plans off of how they make large faux rocks. They shape chicken wire or hardware cloth and spray it with exspanding foam. And then covering that in concrete. Real rock look with a fraction of the weight
With a new enclosure comes new toys. I'm currently in the process of making Juno(greek) a waterfall/soaking feature in her enclosure. Plan on this thread being a breakdown of the progress.
Started with a piece of 2" extruded insulation foam.
Cut it in to rectangular pieces so when stacked...
I having an issue with.my newly built enclosure.
I originally built it with screens in the windows as the.picture shows, but about 3 weeks in my cats started to jump on the screens and break them out. Luckily I built it with this in mind and had a quick fix to insert plexi-glass. Now that the...
Sorry it has been a while since the last update. Been a little hectic trying to finish the project and getting ready to move.
Here it is painted with the bottom doors on
The exterior is painted with black interior semi-gloss latex paint, the interior of the top section is painted with a...
Are you going to paint/seal the lid for the middle section on the inside? I see potential for mold. Also mount for the uv light. I would recommend it for any exsposed wood in the enclosure