Smittiferous
Well-Known Member
My two sand monitors are growing fast, and will likely outgrow their housing on a couple of months. I also dearly want a Spencer's, another animal that requires some room. Rather than build another indoor enclosure that may not be suitable for them once fully grown, I have been toying with making an outdoor pit. Alas, as I rent, that's not really feasible as a permanent fixture.
My job (I do excavation and structural works for basements on brown sites) often provides opportunities for free bits and pieces that are usually very handy for keeping herps - mostly old bits of various stones (slate, sandstone, bluestone etc) or choice tree branches and stumps to use as basking spots, perches or hides, or other materials suited for enclosure construction. But I couldn't believe my luck when today I was offered for free not one but two Colorbond rainwater tanks!
They were left over from a house demolition, and were due to be crushed and disposed of. Each tank measures 2400 long, 820 wide and 1800 high.
The plan is (in a nutshell) to hack them in half height wise, fix them in pairs on plywood bases, build a hinged lid and put them on castors so they can be wheeled about the garage as required, and pushed outside in the summer months for some real sunshine.
Now all I have to do is find a way to get them home....
My job (I do excavation and structural works for basements on brown sites) often provides opportunities for free bits and pieces that are usually very handy for keeping herps - mostly old bits of various stones (slate, sandstone, bluestone etc) or choice tree branches and stumps to use as basking spots, perches or hides, or other materials suited for enclosure construction. But I couldn't believe my luck when today I was offered for free not one but two Colorbond rainwater tanks!
They were left over from a house demolition, and were due to be crushed and disposed of. Each tank measures 2400 long, 820 wide and 1800 high.
The plan is (in a nutshell) to hack them in half height wise, fix them in pairs on plywood bases, build a hinged lid and put them on castors so they can be wheeled about the garage as required, and pushed outside in the summer months for some real sunshine.
Now all I have to do is find a way to get them home....