Got the cage setup! How does it look?

[Jon114]

Got the plant light in today and threw everything together. I think it came out nice. Hopefully I can order my veiled in the next week or two. It's going to be young (3+ months) but AFAIK as long as they can eat and drink, they should be fine in a cage of this size. Any input, guys?

EDIT: Just realized I posted this in the wrong section, can a mod move it please?

Specs:
24x24x48 aluminum screen cage
5.0 reptisun
60 watt incadescent light
6500k flourescent light
DIY dripper (Works great!)
Pothos, Shcefflera, Ficus
Various vines from the local woods

http://i941.photobucket.com/albums/ad257/Destroyer551/cham005_zps4d3c37bb.jpg

http://i941.photobucket.com/albums/ad257/Destroyer551/cham006_zps3bb60a6a.jpg

http://i941.photobucket.com/albums/ad257/Destroyer551/cham007_zpsf6971ab9.jpg

 

[Rottsko]

it looks great! looks like you're ready for your new cham. just make sure that if the cham is really small, it might have a hard time finding it's food. if that's case, you can partition the cage so it's smaller for the new cham. good luck and keep us posted!

 

[coreyflowers1]

Im curious how you keep your sheffelara plant so full and bushy.myn always start that way and then all of the lower limbs tend to fall off..am I doing something wrong

 

[ReptiGeek]

Im curious how you keep your sheffelara plant so full and bushy.myn always start that way and then all of the lower limbs tend to fall off..am I doing something wrong

Did you ever add rocks on top of the soil the schefflera was planted in and then the lower stems were sort of 'hidden'? Scheffleras lose their stems/ branches (whatever you want to call them) really easily if they are not properly exposed to light and air circulation. So when you plant a small schefflera and you put rocks on top of the soil it usually takes away from air circulation and light from the branches that are just starting to grow, thus killing them.

 

[coreyflowers1]

Yea I out rocks n the bottom for drainage and on top like everybody reccomended.its always a battle with one thing or another.I guess that y its a hobby.learn threw trial and error.

 

[phylicia]

enclosure

Looks great..I have same size with Ficus..vines scheflera tree lots of climbing branches will send when on my cell this is my new Tab dont even know if this will go through