I'm the one with the Ionides. He needs to get out of his tank. I'm going to fix his herp room for him. Please critique my plans.

I have an 8 foot x 12 foot room with carpet. I'll line the carpet with ten-mil visqueen (on the warm side of the floor system, visqueen won't get wet unerneath), and staple down 1/4 inch plywood. The py will get four coats of interior semigloss paint. The joints will get Durock reinforcing tape with polyurethane caulk spread on with a four-inch sheetrock blade. In the middle of the room I'm putting a 7 food diametre X 16" tall rigid plastic kid's pool. I it goes 400 pounds of good, compactible subsoil, with boards and limbs piled on top of the soil. he can get in there easily. I will make a water feature with a smaller diameter kid,s pool, with a small fountain just enough to move the water.

The heat will come from low-hanging CHE's. Lights will be clusters of lowhanging everyday lights. Both will be on one thermostat in case it gets too warm. But I assume he will use his burrows to escape heat. That's double indemnity against heat damage, I like that.

He sure does not look like a climber, but I'll give him a 6" diameter, heavy oak limb spray that reaches the ceiling.

From what I know about him, he'll pout for a week by not eating, for the relocation experience.

I know he wants the entire floor filed with 18 inches of dirt. Do you-all think my plan ill giv enugh to him?

Roger

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