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LdyPayne
at Sun Jan 25 12:45:01 2004 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by LdyPayne ]
I just built my own screen top for my 35 gal tank before I bought my corn snake. I used 1"x2" board, cut to fit into the recess part of the acquarium frame. I spread aluminum screen over top of the wooden frame and used a stable gun to stable the screen to the frame, keeping the stables very close together and the screen very tight. My snake has not escaped from it at all (even though twice I thought he did but he was still in the cage come night fall..he was very fast and good at hiding in the shavens while I searched through it).
I had looked at the plastic screen covers you can get for acquariums and they always look so flimsy and not worth the price they ask for them when I can build a better one for half the price. I will probably add clips on the sides now that my snake is getting bigger, he may be strong enough to push out the screen though he hasnt' done so yet. Deffinitely a wise precaution.
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- Juvenile Delinquent Escapee...Enclosure Help Needed - cecanady, Sat Jan 24 17:03:35 2004
- RE: Juvenile Delinquent Escapee...Enclosure Help Needed - psmoore, Sat Jan 24 17:24:35 2004
- RE: Juvenile Delinquent Escapee...Enclosure Help Needed - freezermink, Sat Jan 24 18:27:18 2004
- Sorry to hear he is so good at escaping... - kathylove, Sat Jan 24 19:41:02 2004
- RE: Juvenile Delinquent Escapee...Enclosure Help Needed - Sonya, Sat Jan 24 22:28:12 2004
- BTW, one of my customers bought 2 large Vision cages... - kathylove, Sat Jan 24 23:16:07 2004
- RE: Juvenile Delinquent Escapee...Enclosure Help Needed - janome, Sun Jan 25 05:47:49 2004
RE: Juvenile Delinquent Escapee...Enclosure Help Needed - LdyPayne, Sun Jan 25 12:45:01 2004
- That lid! Grrr! My graybands have managed to get out of their tank twice... - Sybella, Sun Jan 25 14:37:00 2004
- Found part of the problem... - cecanady, Sun Jan 25 20:46:17 2004
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