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Hi Jen,
I love that you can put three pens in the footprint of one. I have three swimming pools in our dining room and they aren't all that eye appealing. I will be curious as to how the lights etc attach.so make sure we get those pics!!! Great to have a hubby that puts up with us eh?? What are the dimensions? and these are for ornates and russians right? Now will you line them also?
Na

Nay Wrote:Hi Jen,
I love that you can put three pens in the footprint of one. I have three swimming pools in our dining room and they aren't all that eye appealing. I will be curious as to how the lights etc attach.so make sure we get those pics!!! Great to have a hubby that puts up with us eh?? What are the dimensions? and these are for ornates and russians right? Now will you line them also?
Na

The lights will attach to the end of the boxes, Hubby only did it to get rid of the tubs, Each box is 5' L 2' W 1' H, Anybody that has to be inside will be in this boxies, russians, sulcatas, I put a lot of polyurathane on them, but I decided to put vinyl flooring on the bottom of the boxes so it is easier to clean. Whats going on with your russian pair?

Did you notice the pictures of my new enclosures... the lights are hung from the enclosure above with J hooks. Then just use a clamp light for the top enclosure.

jenrell23 Wrote:

Nay Wrote:Hi Jen,
I love that you can put three pens in the footprint of one. I have three swimming pools in our dining room and they aren't all that eye appealing. I will be curious as to how the lights etc attach.so make sure we get those pics!!! Great to have a hubby that puts up with us eh?? What are the dimensions? and these are for ornates and russians right? Now will you line them also?
Na

The lights will attach to the end of the boxes, Hubby only did it to get rid of the tubs, Each box is 5' L 2' W 1' H, Anybody that has to be inside will be in this boxies, russians, sulcatas, I put a lot of polyurathane on them, but I decided to put vinyl flooring on the bottom of the boxes so it is easier to clean. Whats going on with your russian pair?

-EJ Wrote:Did you notice the pictures of my new enclosures... the lights are hung from the enclosure above with J hooks. Then just use a clamp light for the top enclosure.

I didn't notice your pics of your new enclosures. They only pics I saw were in the reptiles mag. Duh just looked at the mag again and saw you hung them inside. so J hooks? where did you put the hooks? In the bottom of the box or on the 4x4's?

Those are the new ones. The picture I used to send out used clip lights as you seen in the plan.

The bottom is 3/4 inch wood and is way stronger than it needs to be. I secured the cable with cable hooks. These are the plastic or metal clamps that are used to secure the cable that is run for your cable tv. It makes everything look neat and secure.

Ed

jenrell23 Wrote:[quote=-EJ]
Did you notice the pictures of my new enclosures... the lights are hung from the enclosure above with J hooks. Then just use a clamp light for the top enclosure.

I didn't notice your pics of your new enclosures. They only pics I saw were in the reptiles mag. Duh just looked at the mag again and saw you hung them inside. so J hooks? where did you put the hooks? In the bottom of the box or on the 4x4's?

I'll have to head on over to home depot then...

Well I moved everything and now the pics are gone - Josh can I put them back in?? ANyways it is done other then me hanging the lights which I will do eventually. Here you go...

This is the top one, I actually have changed it so I will take new pics..I had to put a divider down the middle since rockie came to us.

The russians pen - Just until they go outside

The total thing

That came out totally fantastic.

One question... How do you keep them in (from the last picture)?

jen, send me the links to the photos in the order you want them, and ill fix it up

Ed: ? I don't have a problem with anyone climbing out yet. I put the russians on the bottom in case they decided to climb out, in the middle I had crush - sulcata in, but I got a new boxie so I put him and his tote in there, once he starts eating, I will take him out of the tote, but right now I want a lid over him for humidity and easier to find. The top has a divider down the middle and my two sulcatas are up there and I have had no problems so far with any of them climbing out.

It was a joke silly... the last picture was posted sideways.

Your setup is fantastic. I really liked it with the stain.

jenrell23 Wrote:Ed: ? I don't have a problem with anyone climbing out yet. I put the russians on the bottom in case they decided to climb out, in the middle I had crush - sulcata in, but I got a new boxie so I put him and his tote in there, once he starts eating, I will take him out of the tote, but right now I want a lid over him for humidity and easier to find. The top has a divider down the middle and my two sulcatas are up there and I have had no problems so far with any of them climbing out.

LOL Duh on me, that one flew right by.

LOL - that was pretty funny! Jen that looks great! Job well done.

on the bedding... can you get aspen bedding. Ihate the big flaked stuff but will use the same if I can't find the aspen bedding.

jenrell23 Wrote:LOL Duh on me, that one flew right by.

Jen the new pens look great. I too like the idea of going up, not out. and ED I must admit that was a good one