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I was doing some pondering after the below post and remembered seeing the HERCULINER brand DIY bed liner commercial not too long ago, I went to the site and the product had many extra uses such as for fish ponds and cattle feed troughs so I would assume it is safe for the cages. I emailed them about the application and have not recieved a reply yet.If it is doable, which I cant see why not, I believe this would be so much cheaper in the long run compared to having a spray in done by a professional company like diamond liners or rhino liners and such. I'm def. going to look into it, was originally going to go with hpl's for the interior but this stuff is just so durable as I have the diamond liner in my truck right now and love it. Just figured I would drop some info, if anybody has anything to add or can find out more before i do, i'l keep posted.... Jon
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1.1.1 breeding pair blue tongue skinks w/ juv. offspring
1.0.0 Juv. Albino Bullfrog
0.0.2 Giant Pixie Frog (one juv. and one adult)
1.1.0 Clawed frogs
1.1.0 Albino Clawed frogs
0.0.1 Superlight juv Sulcatta
0.0.2 Fly river turtles
0.0.2 Savannah Monitors (one pastel)
0.2.0 juv pastel Columbian boas
1.1.0 monster pink pastel columbian boas
1.2.0 Hypo Hog boas
1.0.0 Hypo boa
1.1.0 Hypo boa babies, Poss. DH sunglow
0.2.0 Hypo poss. DH sunglow
1.0.0 Coral albino boa (my baby)
and
1.2.0 Pomeranians (the wifes babies)

Jon,

I had some spare time and went into the archives of the cichlid forum that somebody recommended here. In general the use of truck liners has fallen out of favor when it comes to sealing plywood tanks. However, it does sound like it would really work well for our application since we rarely need water-tight enclosures than can withstand the pressure of hundreds of pounds of water.

I'll also add that the DIY section of that forum has a TON of information that would be helpful to building reptile enclosures. Fish people seem to be very resourceful.

But back to the point, these spray on liners seem to vary quite a bit in their chemical makeup. Unfortunately many of the DIY products seemed to be the most toxic. Chemically this actually makes a lot of sense for reasons I won't get into. Suffice to say that to make a durable product that a consumer can apply with a roller is not the same as making a pre-catalyzed product that can be applied with industral spray equipment.

If I were going to seal a cage tomorrow with truck liner without doing any further research I would call my local Line-X franchise and ask them to do it for me. It does seem like the best product from a safety standpoint and I also like that it is designed to spray on smooth like a paint and not necessarily textured.

But with a bit more research I also suspect that there is a DIY truck liner that would be okay for our application. It's just a matter of looking into it more.

On that note, I look forward to any reply you might get from the company you contacted. Keep us posted.
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Current snakes:

0.0.1 Gonyosoma oxycephala - Java locale (green)

2.2 Gonyosoma janseni - Seleyar locale (all black)

I had started the thread below...I called the line-x folks and they were very helpful. Still think that option would be a lot pricier than the hercules stuff. I also saw that WalMart had a version of it REAL cheap but I would guess this stuff would offgass for a while as it had lots of warnings, etc. The cage I am working on has 3 sections 6' long that I will be housing my indigos in. They are babies now, so I am in no real hurry to finish it, but I want it "just right" for when they are ready to move into it. I have always made my own cages, but hate when feces gets on the wall or something. In some of my other cages I use vinyl linoleum which works pretty good, but I thought this would be better.

The one i am talking about is just like the one I built below, but instead of 6 3' units, there is 3 6' units.
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f62/johnbort2/cage.gif