The goal for the adult cage is to do something that's partially outdoors, partially indoors. We live in NC, so the summers are GREAT here for keeping herps outside. However, the winters...not so much. Even spring and fall aren't that great. Right now for instance, it's not getting below the high 60's at night, up in to the 90's during the day, and our crocodilians still aren't quite at full time feeding yet. We have had success keeping Argentine Tegus outside for MORE of the year, but we still always brought them in from mid october through early april. So, the long term goal is to build something that allows the animal(s) choices in the summer (indoor or outdoors) and allows us to contain them in the off season.



First things first though. I'm thinking about using a watering trough as the base of an indoor cage for the little one. It's 2 by 4, and about 3 feet deep, so PLENTY of room for dirt. There's also a drain on it, so I'm hoping I can figure out a way to hook up a water supply with a drain, to THAT drain, to make cleaning that much easier. Is that TOO big though? It would definitely give me the ability to give the animal the proper tempature ranges, but what about monitoring it's food intake?

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