by ladyania
Aug 18, 2005 8:16 PM · 1568 views · 254.1 k · 447 x 1000
Keywords: cage
After 3 weeks of work, Stewie's new home is finally ready! Complete with 3 terraces, climbing logs and vines, bark walls, two water slides and 20g heated, filtered pool, this guy lives better than his human companions!
Looks great to me...I'm sure Stewie is having a ball!
burnett6114
Jul 13, 2006 2:56 PM
How did you make his home? Or did you order it? If so...where?
ladyania
Jul 15, 2006 2:09 PM
I first bought a chameleon all screen cage and then I ordered a custom aquarium built to fit as a bottom ($50, not too bad) so the screen cage would sit in the rim of the tank. Then I bought a sheet of plexiglass and cut it to line the inside of the back wall of the screen cage. Before I put that in place, I cut shapey ledges which I carpeted with repticarpet and attatched to the plexiglass with brackets. Then I attatched the plexiglass with shelves to make the back wall. As a final touch I put a scenic background behind the plexi. On the top shelf/ledge I screwed in to the plexi a large water bowl (I call in the spa) after cutting a flat surface on a zoo med bowl. I also screwed two "swooping" pieces of wood into the plexi to act as basking spots. One of them has a hole which houses a water tube from one of the filters, creating a little quiet waterslide style waterfall. for the aquarium it has one internal filter for the waterfall, one internal filter for filtering, and one external canister filter for filtering. There are chiclids in the tank, and those combined with the dragon make a large bio load and make a lot of waste. There's also an underwater pond (egg) light which is always on, like a nightlight, and a heater, as well as airstones powered by a regular aquarium pump. For lighting there is an incandescent fixture hanging on one of the sides to bring light under the ledges. It has a dayglo bulb and one of those compact fluorescent full spectrum bulbs. On the top is an esu slimline fixture with a flourescent bulb (5%uv) There is one large clamp fixture ceramic bulb heater on the top (250w) and one smaller (75w) ceramic bulb clamp heating fixture on the side opposite from the light. Not shown is a laybox which I added for the spring season which is a tupperware style container with a nesting medium. Then I added some extra sticks and fake and real plants, gravel and rocks in the tank, and of course by beautiful friend CeCe the WD. Hope that helps!
