Our Iguana Cage, Handmade Enclosure

We built this in less then 12 hours so we could take in Endora, she and scout now occupy it quite happily.


www.midsummerbreeze.piczo.com and you can see our other setups and our guests

8ft high, 5 ft long, 2.5 ft deep

looks nice . Nice height too. How do you get the humidity and temp right? and wheres the uvb?

never mind i see the uvb . can he get close enough to it?

Very nice looking encloser! How long did it take to build?

Erica

It took 12 hours steady to build, we added taller trees since that picture and humity is hard to control but we mist them often not mention they both like soaking in the tub every so often.

ever tried of building once of those home made humidifiers? made with a pop bottle i think. i have the instructions somewhere. it would help raise the humidity. that and maybe covering half of the screen with plastic or something?

id appreciate the info on the humidifer, i havent found any good instructions, glass is tpo heavy and i dont trust it with the dogs or Scout...as for plastic and fabrics been there done that, Endora DOES NOT like either its only up for a day or so and then shes litterly got it tore down and tore to shreds.

Cheap DIY Cage Humidifier

List of supplies:

Drill
Silicone
Hose
Pump (Pump shown is designed for 30 to 60 gallon tank)
2 Liter Soda Bottle or similar
Air stone and blade (not shown)

Steps:

1. Cut two lengths of hose. One for cap to tank, one for pump to bottle. Drill hose sized holes into one cap and one into the side of the bottle, about 5 inches from the top.



2. Insert tank hose into cap, then silicone for airtight seal. Insert pump hose into side, feed through top, install air stone, feed back down to bottom. Silicone around side hole.



3. When silicone is dry, fill about half way with water.



4. Finished product. Put the reservoir someplace hidden, feed the hose from cap down into tank and place where desired, turn on pump.

For increased humidity, use smaller bottle or raise water level. A larger hose to the tank, or more than one hose works as well.

A half bottle keeps my 30 gallon's humidity at 55%.

For more humidity, put a sponge inside reservoir. It will cause more humidity to build up inside, instead of the air escaping out hose without being properly saturated.

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Hey..,that's a great looking ig enclosure you've got there,lots of room to climb around!Congrats on that.The humidifyer idea looks good too...have seen the same sort of rig used to hatch brine shrimp eggs for feeding fry.Pretty cool.

The humidifier is easy to make and awsome for those animals that need a higher humidity

Timbers!!!!! Cage is comming down sometime this week, we're going to move her back here to the office/rep room with the other scale kiddies, we've been cleaning the place out and discovered we have a closet lol so were going to rework the cage to fit nicly into the closet (would love to just put a door on it instead but I cant remove the carpet so we'll just mod it and slide er' in, I think she'll like being back here better means she can free roam more when were home and Wal-mart has nice humidifers so Im ungrading that as well =)

cant wait to see pics of that. Good luck .

Sounds great...keep us posted!

any pics of the closet cage yet?

i might snap a few tonight if i become less lazy then what i am at this moment