leoturt
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The cage part itself is a outdoor rabbit cage I bought from bed Bath and beyond. It has 2 doors on the top, one is the entire top half and the other is a smaller door as seen in the pictures. Both of those doors are openable by 180 degrees. There are other doors on the sides but only 1 of them is sort of usable due to being blocked by the solid walls.
I covered the bottom half of all the sides so that my baby leo can't slip through, but also so that predators can't put their claws or limbs through to grab my tort. No flying predator can swoop it up since it has a roof.
The white walls are corrugulated plastic sheets from home Depot. I bought 2 48x24 sheets and like a 24x18 sheet. I used metal galvanized wire to stitch the walls onto the cage wire so the walls are on very tight. There's no spikey ends of the metal wires sticking into the cage, but they do stick outside of the cage. Overall it cost around $190 CAD for the cage and the sheets combined, so quite expensive versus just building a wooden enclosure with a wired top. But I didn't want to use wood so I went this route.
The solid walls naturally create a lot of shade down 1 or 2 of the sides. In these pictures the grass is obviously way to tall, and has to be cut before putting my tort in again on a warm day. I spray the tort a few times throughout the duration of time it spends in the cage, and I leave a water dish in it as well. I also just grab the water dish and put it right in front of the torts mouth and it will drink it as I hold it like that to encourage hydration.
I also spray the torts carapace a few times each time it's out in this cage.
I have locks for 2 large doors on the top of the cage so that an animal can't get inside to grab the tort and run, but I can also easily open the doors myself by unlocking them. All other doors are locked shut.
The rock on top of the cage isn't supposed to be there.
I covered the bottom half of all the sides so that my baby leo can't slip through, but also so that predators can't put their claws or limbs through to grab my tort. No flying predator can swoop it up since it has a roof.
The white walls are corrugulated plastic sheets from home Depot. I bought 2 48x24 sheets and like a 24x18 sheet. I used metal galvanized wire to stitch the walls onto the cage wire so the walls are on very tight. There's no spikey ends of the metal wires sticking into the cage, but they do stick outside of the cage. Overall it cost around $190 CAD for the cage and the sheets combined, so quite expensive versus just building a wooden enclosure with a wired top. But I didn't want to use wood so I went this route.
The solid walls naturally create a lot of shade down 1 or 2 of the sides. In these pictures the grass is obviously way to tall, and has to be cut before putting my tort in again on a warm day. I spray the tort a few times throughout the duration of time it spends in the cage, and I leave a water dish in it as well. I also just grab the water dish and put it right in front of the torts mouth and it will drink it as I hold it like that to encourage hydration.
I also spray the torts carapace a few times each time it's out in this cage.
I have locks for 2 large doors on the top of the cage so that an animal can't get inside to grab the tort and run, but I can also easily open the doors myself by unlocking them. All other doors are locked shut.
The rock on top of the cage isn't supposed to be there.
