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I've been working on this since October, spent nearly a grand, and it's finally done. I've built large cages before, but the problem I never solved was able to solve was ease of cleaning the water area. This one has a drain in the bottom which is plumbed right into the sump pump. To clean, I just turn a lever, then spray it out with the garden hose. This cage is in 1/2 of my finished basement, and the unfinished half has the sump pump and water hookup. Thanks to Chris Harper, I am very pleased with the way the pond turned out, the biggest help was coating with drylock.

The cage is 8'X4'X 4'. The pond is 18"x8'X9" at the deep end, sloping gradually to above the waterline. Four filters push a fairly strong current from the deep to shallow end, creating a lapping type shoreline.

Thanks for looking.

of the inside

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Australian Water Dragons

What is the inside sealed with? Walls I mean. Thats a lot of lighting, LOL an electricians nightmare?

Good Job
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Jeremy

"I am become death, the destroyer of worlds" July 16, 1945 Robert Oppenheimer

1.1 Double Het "Sharp" Snow RTB's
1.1 Hypomelenistic RTB's
0.2 Pastel Hypo RTB's
2.0 Double Het Stripe Albino RTB's
0.1 Suriname RTB
0.1 Anerthrystic RTB
0.0.10 Red Bearded Dragons
1.1 Rhinoceros Iguana's
1.0 Green Iguana
1.0 Ball Python
1.1 Cream Golden Retrieviers
1.0 Pomeriaian
0.2 Catus Terribilis
0.1 Spouse
1.0 Child

Jeremy,

From a previous thread, I believe Paul used white drylok on the walls.

Paul,

Looks great. Thanks for keeping us posted.
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Current snakes:

0.0.1 Gonyosoma oxycephala - Java locale (green)

1.2 Gonyosoma oxycephala - Jave local (green)

2.2 Gonyosoma janseni - Seleyar locale (all black)

1.2 Gonyosoma janseni - Celebes locale (Black & Tan)

Chris is correct, I used white drylock on the walls and floor.
I must admit, the electrical work WAS a nightmare. I was really worried when I started to see how much wattage I was going to use. I had a contractor friend over to inspect, and he ended up wiring the whole cage to an unused baseboard heater breaker, which is 20 amp, then I felt better.

Electricity scares me!
Paul Kemes

I though so, just didn't want to search back through the threads. You will have to post about cleaning as time goes by curious to see how well drylock cleans. I have used it before but never in a reptile enclosure. Good Job just the same.

Electricity scares me!

LOL, Thats why I don't give advice via the web! Still just the same I wish I got paid for some of the electrical work I have done. I have a feeling my Father-in-Law will get me to wire his new garage this comming summer. Boy that will be fun, get to install a sub-panel and a main, Oh Boy!

How much of the 2200 watts are you using?
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Jeremy

"I am become death, the destroyer of worlds" July 16, 1945 Robert Oppenheimer

1.1 Double Het "Sharp" Snow RTB's
1.1 Hypomelenistic RTB's
0.2 Pastel Hypo RTB's
2.0 Double Het Stripe Albino RTB's
0.1 Suriname RTB
0.1 Anerthrystic RTB
0.0.10 Red Bearded Dragons
1.1 Rhinoceros Iguana's
1.0 Green Iguana
1.0 Ball Python
1.1 Cream Golden Retrieviers
1.0 Pomeriaian
0.2 Catus Terribilis
0.1 Spouse
1.0 Child

For all you do it yourselfer cage builders out there, I relay this story.
I once used a coat hanger wire to ream out a drain hole in a window unit type air conditioner without unplugging it. I figured no way there could be electric near the water tray, right? I have been shocked before, and like alot of you out there, I have an unusual (some would say stupid) lack of fear, but that one hurt! Vibrated my forearm and hurt to my shoulder blades in back. I was even sore for two days. Since then, I could say I don’t fear electricity, but I don’t ever want to do that again! Always have a lot of respect for it, like any other “hot”. I've been told that could have been deadly.
Awesome cage, by the way. I wish I had room for a dozen of them!

This might seam the one upper type response but when I was a teenager I was plugging in a 220 dryer that apparently had a faulty cord. Long story short I awoke a few minutes latter, laying on my back with that nub tingling feeling in the left side of my body, hurt for days. Sometimes you just never can tell.

I also tazered myself as a youth so maybe its just my electric personality, LOL.

Someday I will finish my EE degree.
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Jeremy

"I am become death, the destroyer of worlds" July 16, 1945 Robert Oppenheimer

1.1 Double Het "Sharp" Snow RTB's
1.1 Hypomelenistic RTB's
0.2 Pastel Hypo RTB's
2.0 Double Het Stripe Albino RTB's
0.1 Suriname RTB
0.1 Anerthrystic RTB
0.0.10 Red Bearded Dragons
1.1 Rhinoceros Iguana's
1.0 Green Iguana
1.0 Ball Python
1.1 Cream Golden Retrieviers
1.0 Pomeriaian
0.2 Catus Terribilis
0.1 Spouse
1.0 Child

It looks AMAZING! Great Job!!

thanks Erik
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Erik Strait
www.EriksReptiles.com
Email- Erik@EriksReptiles.com

I keep and breed all kinds of crested morphs, Henkeli leaf-tail geckos, Mossy leaf-tail geckos, Lined leaf-tail geckos, and ball python morphs!