Turtlmom asked about enclosures in another thread, so I thought I would take this time to show you what I do. Unfortunately my camera is still with my daughter, so these are actually some older pictures. First off, I don't have the perfect enclosure yet myself. 
I will say I am working (very slowly) on making my dream outdoor enclosure. So far, all I have managed is getting the land cleaned up, old fencing out, a start at managing the old grape vine, and I did get my two weeping mulberry trees planted. I can't recall the exact measurements but something like 40' by 150'. So it'll be some time in the making.
My current way to set up outdoor enclosures are like the following one. This one came from revamping an old enclosure that had set empty for years. I liked it and more importantly the hingebacks seemed to like it. So I started revamping several other old ones of the same basic style.
These pictures are all from right after we remodeled it, so the plants have not yet naturally spread out to cover more. What I like about this first picture, is you can see there is some natural shading coming from a tree outside of the enclosure, yet at the same time we do have patches of sunlight. There is a supported wire lip part way around, which you do need for the hingebacks as they are great climbers. What this doesn't show is at the top, we also put back on a PCV spray setup, which makes keeping humidity up a lot easier on hot summer days. The water looks shallow, but actually it is deep enough for complete soakings and at one point even a swim.
For inside, this is an example of an enclosure fixed for a single Bells during isolation. With most adults, it's a waste of time (atleast for me) to try the real plants as they stomp them down pretty good. As you can see one hide has leaf matter the other I left plain. Please excuse the old and rather stained food dish I used.
These are examples of 40 gallon breeders I had set up for some hatchlings. Actually the fifth and sixth is a 20 gal long. The fourth one shows pretty well, the fact that I try to have little hills to climb.
So see, nothing special about my enclosures, but they work for me.
I will say I am working (very slowly) on making my dream outdoor enclosure. So far, all I have managed is getting the land cleaned up, old fencing out, a start at managing the old grape vine, and I did get my two weeping mulberry trees planted. I can't recall the exact measurements but something like 40' by 150'. So it'll be some time in the making.My current way to set up outdoor enclosures are like the following one. This one came from revamping an old enclosure that had set empty for years. I liked it and more importantly the hingebacks seemed to like it. So I started revamping several other old ones of the same basic style.
These pictures are all from right after we remodeled it, so the plants have not yet naturally spread out to cover more. What I like about this first picture, is you can see there is some natural shading coming from a tree outside of the enclosure, yet at the same time we do have patches of sunlight. There is a supported wire lip part way around, which you do need for the hingebacks as they are great climbers. What this doesn't show is at the top, we also put back on a PCV spray setup, which makes keeping humidity up a lot easier on hot summer days. The water looks shallow, but actually it is deep enough for complete soakings and at one point even a swim.
For inside, this is an example of an enclosure fixed for a single Bells during isolation. With most adults, it's a waste of time (atleast for me) to try the real plants as they stomp them down pretty good. As you can see one hide has leaf matter the other I left plain. Please excuse the old and rather stained food dish I used.
These are examples of 40 gallon breeders I had set up for some hatchlings. Actually the fifth and sixth is a 20 gal long. The fourth one shows pretty well, the fact that I try to have little hills to climb.
So see, nothing special about my enclosures, but they work for me.
