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Posted by: artgeckko at Thu Jan 22 03:06:52 2004   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by artgeckko ]  
   

Thanks for the reponse.

Took me a while to get it1



I was kicking around the idea of foam urethane plastic after seeing and using one of those funky volcanos with some veild Chameleons some years back. I wanted to test it's heat and uvb resistance and to determine if under such practices(like in aUro enclosure) if it would result in some negative attributes.

I agree with you about dirt-It appears to be the best case material-and to that note I had great success breeding Asian Water dragons in an enclosure with backyard dirt......just not ready to undertake the change yet. There is a construction yard thatI will check out after hiatus. Thanks for the notes on Nebu's tunnels system.

I hoped that there were spiraling tunnels - I can incorporate that into the lack of physical space.Vertical as opposed to horizontal. My idea was to build a mold of Urethane tunnel, place it in the enclosure and pack it with a dirt mixture- expos a small opening that would encourage the uro to dig the rest out.

The hot ticket would be to hinge the tunnel so that access could be made....still kicking the ideas around....

One note on the mosture content of Nebu's enclosure - Really keep an eye out for tail rot- one of my egyptian's had it on the tip of his tail-not a problem but - it took a while to heal-

Good luck and continued success with building the ideal urohome

Thanks for the info-

Ed



The San Diego zoo had a neat Uro exterior enclosure that was just that - a big planted hill(grasses and stuff). There was obviously some tunnel network and of course a protective wall surrounding the entire "hill"-sad thing was none of the occcupants were out! i think they were ornates and they shared the enclosure with sungazers....




   

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