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at Mon Oct 25 16:20:04 2004 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by chris_harper2 ]
>>My dimesions will be 6'x 2'x 3' (72"x 24"x 36". This will allow me to get it through my door ways.
Hi Dan,
I think you made a good choice, that cage should basically fit through any doorway and your Bearded Dragon(s) will love the space.
>>I have my lighting fixtures that I want to get...
Do you want the lights to be secure from the dragons (i.e. a screen barrier of some sort)? I can give you some details of my false ceiling design if so.
>> ...but the biggest thing I'm having problems with is the sliding glass doors I want for the front.
Sliding doors are easy. With that size cage and for a bearded dragon I believe you can get away with plastic track and 1/8" thick glass (aka double-strength glass). The one downfall of a cage this size is that you'll likely want a central support in the middle-front of the cage. This support will go behind the upper and lower lips of the cage and will allow for full-length bypass tracks.
Rockler.com carries plastic glass track and also a real wood track. The real wood product only works with 1/4" glass which is not a big deal.
How decorative do you want this cage to be? Fancy, simple, or somewhere inbetween?
Below is a picture of my bearded dragon cage. It's made from birch plywood and has a cherry stain. It looks much better in person than this picture suggests. It was pretty cheap.
It was built from scrap material so the dimensions are a bit odd... 49.5" x 20" x 27.5"
If you scroll down to my post below titled "Build-50, Envirotex, et. al." you'll see a picture of another cage I built using the exact same design (except larger).
In this picture you can see the false-ceiling I use in my cages. A frame runs from the bottom of the upper lip to the top of the back panel of the cage. This creates a 8"x48" opening all along the back-top of the cage so lights and heating elements can be accessed.
For reference, the upper and lower lips are where the glass track is attached.
This feature is not a huge deal for a Bearded Dragon, IMO, but some people like the idea of the heating elements being out of reach.
Here's the Bearded Cage.
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Current snakes:
1.1 Gonyosoma oxycephala - (Silver/Yellow)
3.4 Gonyosoma oxycephala - (Green)
2.1 Gonyosoma janseni - (Black)
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RE: Bearded Dragon Cage- Need Some Help!!!!! - chris_harper2, Mon Oct 25 16:20:04 2004 