Let me start out by saying I'm a lumber hoarder. . . well, actually I hoard anything to do with building stuff. So I have quite a nice collection of scrap plywood, lumber and rigid foam. I also have a lot of new stuff left over from previous projects.
There are two tort tables in my SA leopard tortoise shed, built onto the east wall and the north wall. I can't get far enough away from them because of the size of the shed to give you good pictures of the tables, but I did my best.
This past week-end my tortoise partner came up to help me by doing some of the heavy lifting that I'm starting to become a bit too weak (?) or lazy to do myself. This weekend he placed some drip in the SA leopard yard and in the YF yard, and I asked if he could figure out a way to enclose one of the tort tables in the shed. The table he worked on houses a rescue from Kim in SoCal. You may remember pictures I posted of Lil' Kim:
I neglected to get pictures of the table prior to Will working on enclosing it, but here's after:
Thank goodness for rigid foam and Gorilla tape. In the olden days we used to fix our Covered Wag. . . er. . . uh. . . Model T Ford, with bailing wire. Now-a-days we use Gorilla tape!!!
So here's the tort table on the other wall in that same shed:
I put up a 2' length of 1/2x1" wood at either end, then another length of the same wood across the tops of the side pieces:
I screwed in cup holders on the underside of the cross piece to hold the lights. The fixture on the far left holds a black bulb, temporarily until I can buy a couple more fixtures with the larger dome and a small CHE.
Next I started enclosing it with rigid foam:
I had to move the feeding tile up to the top of the hiding place because there was ants on it. I put down a Terro Ant trap and they went for the bait immediately.
I'm rubbish at close ups, but the black along the front edge of the spilled liquid is ants.
There are two tort tables in my SA leopard tortoise shed, built onto the east wall and the north wall. I can't get far enough away from them because of the size of the shed to give you good pictures of the tables, but I did my best.
This past week-end my tortoise partner came up to help me by doing some of the heavy lifting that I'm starting to become a bit too weak (?) or lazy to do myself. This weekend he placed some drip in the SA leopard yard and in the YF yard, and I asked if he could figure out a way to enclose one of the tort tables in the shed. The table he worked on houses a rescue from Kim in SoCal. You may remember pictures I posted of Lil' Kim:
I neglected to get pictures of the table prior to Will working on enclosing it, but here's after:
Thank goodness for rigid foam and Gorilla tape. In the olden days we used to fix our Covered Wag. . . er. . . uh. . . Model T Ford, with bailing wire. Now-a-days we use Gorilla tape!!!
So here's the tort table on the other wall in that same shed:
I put up a 2' length of 1/2x1" wood at either end, then another length of the same wood across the tops of the side pieces:
I screwed in cup holders on the underside of the cross piece to hold the lights. The fixture on the far left holds a black bulb, temporarily until I can buy a couple more fixtures with the larger dome and a small CHE.
Next I started enclosing it with rigid foam:
I had to move the feeding tile up to the top of the hiding place because there was ants on it. I put down a Terro Ant trap and they went for the bait immediately.
I'm rubbish at close ups, but the black along the front edge of the spilled liquid is ants.
