stickenstein
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Hi all! I thought I’d try my hand at making a very large and very hopefully permanent enclosure for my panther chameleon. We moved to the mountains and his current setup doesn’t have enough humidity (our area is about ~20% on a good day). I’ve been noticing him struggling and decided to start this project. It’s my first attempt at anything like this so if anyone has any feedback or advice that would be great!
Here is the current progress/frame (please excuse the sharpie, my young son decided to “help” mom lol):
And here is the sketch I’m laying out for it:
I want to make it bioactive so I will be using a drainage layer that slopes down into an output on the back right corner. I plan to waterproof/seal everything and while I originally planned to use polygem zoopoxy to build a background, I’m now leaning toward printing a vinyl adhesive forest one and further sealing it with a transparent coat.
Does the top layout look ok? Should I move things around more? I’m also not sure what material to make the solid part of the top out of but I’m assuming metal would be the best for that due to the heat from the lights.
I also realize the poor guy will probably look like he’s about to be fed to something in Jurassic Park due to the way the beam supports are set against the background.
Anyway, thanks for reading and any help is appreciated!
Here is the current progress/frame (please excuse the sharpie, my young son decided to “help” mom lol):
And here is the sketch I’m laying out for it:
I want to make it bioactive so I will be using a drainage layer that slopes down into an output on the back right corner. I plan to waterproof/seal everything and while I originally planned to use polygem zoopoxy to build a background, I’m now leaning toward printing a vinyl adhesive forest one and further sealing it with a transparent coat.
Does the top layout look ok? Should I move things around more? I’m also not sure what material to make the solid part of the top out of but I’m assuming metal would be the best for that due to the heat from the lights.
I also realize the poor guy will probably look like he’s about to be fed to something in Jurassic Park due to the way the beam supports are set against the background.
Anyway, thanks for reading and any help is appreciated!
