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Cool iguana cage idea!

loconorc Nov 28, 2006 07:35 PM

I posted this in the iguana forum earlier, but I didnt notice this one until just now. Here goes.

I was in New Orleans,in a not-destroyed house,owned by a friend of my moms. The house was gorgeous and HUGE and had an atrium in the middle. They had a bench and some little tropical plants and a drain at the bottom. I thought this would be a very cool centerpeice enclosure in any future house. Im 14 and were renting a house and I dont have an iguana, but after college if I bought a nice house and adopted big male iguana, this might turn out cool. The drain at the bottom could serve as a drain for a small pool. The atrium was certainly tall enough for a large tree for an iguana. It was open topped to allow sunlight in and tall enough to prevent escape. I think with some minor installments, like basking lamps, misters, or tarp to keep out rain, this could be extremley cool. What do you think? If anyone has tried this or has pictures I'd love to see it. Thanks!

Ryan

ps: I desperatly want someone to reply to my Jeff Cowrin post in the General Discussion forum. I was ecsatic about it and really want to talk about. Thanks for reading!

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liquidleaf Nov 29, 2006 11:10 AM

That must've been a cool looking house.

It's not out of the ordinary for reptile keepers to transform a whole room into a large enclosure, sometimes with drains and trees. I don't have any photos for you though. Sometimes it's just a closet, sometimes a large room, sometimes a basement. I wish I had the space to do that!

One downside to owning a home and doing as you suggest is resale... what do you do when you have to sell the home? Having a room that has special reptile features would probably not appeal to your average home-buyer, so unless you plan on being in your house forever, most people have to plan on removing these special features if they decide to move (or have to move for various reasons).

I'm not sure how common those type of drained atriums are in the South (I lived in SC for a few years but have been in Buffalo for almost two decades now), but that would be ideal - nice tile-lined atrium with drains, that if you had to convert back to a non-reptile enclosure, it wouldn't be difficult to do or look weird to homebuyers.
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