kgallego
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Hey all,
Today I finally finished my nicest to-date Panther enclosure. It took just about all of my spare time for a month to build.
Video showing the finer details will be coming soon!
Here's a list if it's features:
Starting Point - Red Oak Lumber
Glueing the Legs
Combining the Front/Back main frame
Completed Front main frame
Front and Back Main frames
Installing Divider Panel
Cont.
Begin Staining
Stained and Coated w/ Polyurithane
Installing Plastic Draining System
Putting together Door Frames
Stained Door Frame
Staining and Polyurithane Doors and Screen frames
Rough Pile of Grape Vine Wood (I've got extra. It's free if you wanna come get it!)
Mounted the Grape Wood
Today I finally finished my nicest to-date Panther enclosure. It took just about all of my spare time for a month to build.
Video showing the finer details will be coming soon!
Here's a list if it's features:
- Dual Enclosure - Both 24" x 24" x 48"
- Red Oak Frame, Stained and Coated with Polyurathane
- Glass Doors and Glass Back
- Aluminum Screen sides and top (splined into the oak - no metal frames)
- Built in, 12" Deep planters box, filled with highly aeriated soil/silica mixture for good draining
- Enclosed lighting above, including 5.0 UVB Bulbs, Basking Bulbs, and 4 fluorescent 6400k growlights.
- 48" Grow lights mounted vertically inside the door panels (4 total), manually controlled by switches above. For visual enhancement only - not on all the time.
- Misting Lines run throughout the enclosers. Each side has 8 misting nozzles (16 total). Everything gets misted for constant self cleaning. Run off Mist King mist pump - nozzles were bought elsewhere (cheaper).
- Two silent computer fans keep a very mild, but constant air circulation from the top.
- Water draining achieved by mounting plastic sheets with silicon, under the planters box, but inside the frame, and out of visual sight.
- Climbing wood is grape vine. I collected it from a vineyard, pressure washed the bark off, then sand blasted it, and mounted it with bolts out of view/inside the planters box under soil.
- Plants currently are Pothos, Bromelaids, and ficus trees. I'm currently waiting for some airplants and other plants to come in the mail.
- The 'Cup Feeder' is made out of a ceramic bowl from Walmart, which is mounted on a peice of wood with silicon, and is held on the grapevine with a steel dowel. It is easily removed.
Starting Point - Red Oak Lumber
Glueing the Legs
Combining the Front/Back main frame
Completed Front main frame
Front and Back Main frames
Installing Divider Panel
Cont.
Begin Staining
Stained and Coated w/ Polyurithane
Installing Plastic Draining System
Putting together Door Frames
Stained Door Frame
Staining and Polyurithane Doors and Screen frames
Rough Pile of Grape Vine Wood (I've got extra. It's free if you wanna come get it!)
Mounted the Grape Wood
