I have used garbage cans as arboreal enclosures for years. I especially like them for setting up temporary breeding/rain chambers for breeding various species.



I hold the screen on the lids with rivets and hot glue. Hot glue is probably enough for geckos. Sorry, I don't have any pictures of this.



Here's another cage I built along the same lines. Rather than a garbage can I used a 50 gallon Sterilite storage tote.



In this case the tote is mounted onto a face frame built from pine boards. The back of the boards are sealed with epoxy. The tote is attached to the frame with a polyurethane caulk and many tiny screws. The joint is very strong.



The screen is attached with rivets and hot glue. Again, this makes for a very strong joint. You'll see the screen in the next picture.



The door is 1/4" acrylic nested between smaller 1/4" strips of pine.



Sorry for the condition in this picture. A friend of mine had a Corucia zebrata born and needed this cage as temporary shelter for the mother and newborn. The picture was taken later that day and they skinks had messed up the cage pretty good with their initial explorations.

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• rubbermaid garbage can cage idea... will it work? - cowpers, Sun Jul 4 08:26:38 2004
• Lets see those pics NP - treeboas, Sun Jul 4 14:32:28 2004
• RE: rubbermaid garbage can cage idea... will it work? - Lint, Sun Jul 4 14:32:43 2004
• RE: rubbermaid garbage can cage idea... will it work? - cowpers, Sun Jul 4 17:57:06 2004
• that was the lid... here's the inside - cowpers, Sun Jul 4 17:57:29 2004
• RE: that was the lid... here's the inside - LdyPayne, Tue Jul 6 09:11:28 2004
• RE: that was the lid... here's the inside - cowpers, Tue Jul 6 13:27:58 2004
• here's what I did with a storage tote... - chris_harper2, Tue Jul 6 15:56:51 2004
• side view... - chris_harper2, Tue Jul 6 16:02:14 2004
• RE: that was the lid... here's the inside - kozmo02, Wed Jul 7 12:13:40 2004