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Hello everyone.!
So Ive been working this past week on setting up a band new enclosure for a panther... I'm pretty happy with how it turned out so i wanted to give a little run down as to what i have done and share some pictures... All comments, feedback, and suggestions are welcomed...
The enclosure itself is an 18x18x36 reptibreeze...
The center piece is a dwarf umbrella (schefflear arboricola) I found at home depot.. Gave it a good warm shower.. Washed all the dirt from the roots... Re potted it in organic soil.. and put large cleaned river rocks at the top of the pot.. I found bamboo lattice at a locale florist shop and attached it to three sides of the enclosure hopefully to promote using it for climbing instead of the screen... I used more bamboo for different levels of perches and then a few different styles of store bought fake vines to fill it out... Lighting wise i have two t8 fixtures one with a reptisun and the other with a 5000k plant growing bulb.. Along with two 5.5 in domes in the back for a basking spot... One has a 100 watt bulb and the other has a 50 watt... I have two digital thermometers with probes (plans to buy a heat gun)... One set 6in from the basking spot that reads 85 degrees and one about half way down that shows 73 degrees... Room Temperature of the house is set at 65 degrees... I have my old auto mister (reptirain) set up on it now... Set to mist every 3 hours for 60 seconds... Plus I hand mist about twice a day... Humidity spikes to 80+ when misted and drop to 40s otherwise... I did ordered a Mistking a few days ago and I'm pretty excited for it to show up... I designed and made my own stand out of 1in PVC pipe and fittings... For drainage i replaced the bottom of the reptibreeze with a grid of plastic used for large scale lighting... The open bottom allows everything that falls from above to be collected in a drip pan... I made the drip pan out of a sheet of 1/4 in acrylic... Glued it together and used an aquarium silicone to make it water tight... Sanded it all to give it that frosted look and add handles to the front and back... To give it a drawer appearance and make it easier to carry and dump...
That is about all the details i can think of... anything i may have missed feel free to ask... And as always thanks to chameleon forums and everyone on here...
So Ive been working this past week on setting up a band new enclosure for a panther... I'm pretty happy with how it turned out so i wanted to give a little run down as to what i have done and share some pictures... All comments, feedback, and suggestions are welcomed...
The enclosure itself is an 18x18x36 reptibreeze...
The center piece is a dwarf umbrella (schefflear arboricola) I found at home depot.. Gave it a good warm shower.. Washed all the dirt from the roots... Re potted it in organic soil.. and put large cleaned river rocks at the top of the pot.. I found bamboo lattice at a locale florist shop and attached it to three sides of the enclosure hopefully to promote using it for climbing instead of the screen... I used more bamboo for different levels of perches and then a few different styles of store bought fake vines to fill it out... Lighting wise i have two t8 fixtures one with a reptisun and the other with a 5000k plant growing bulb.. Along with two 5.5 in domes in the back for a basking spot... One has a 100 watt bulb and the other has a 50 watt... I have two digital thermometers with probes (plans to buy a heat gun)... One set 6in from the basking spot that reads 85 degrees and one about half way down that shows 73 degrees... Room Temperature of the house is set at 65 degrees... I have my old auto mister (reptirain) set up on it now... Set to mist every 3 hours for 60 seconds... Plus I hand mist about twice a day... Humidity spikes to 80+ when misted and drop to 40s otherwise... I did ordered a Mistking a few days ago and I'm pretty excited for it to show up... I designed and made my own stand out of 1in PVC pipe and fittings... For drainage i replaced the bottom of the reptibreeze with a grid of plastic used for large scale lighting... The open bottom allows everything that falls from above to be collected in a drip pan... I made the drip pan out of a sheet of 1/4 in acrylic... Glued it together and used an aquarium silicone to make it water tight... Sanded it all to give it that frosted look and add handles to the front and back... To give it a drawer appearance and make it easier to carry and dump...
That is about all the details i can think of... anything i may have missed feel free to ask... And as always thanks to chameleon forums and everyone on here...
