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This is a shot of my CB Blue Tegu "Smaug". Took a while to time this shot right!

I built this over the holidays, and its design was inspired mostly by searching this forum. (The monitor folks seem to be a bit ahead of the Tegu folks when it comes to husbandry.)

Wow youdid a really great job. We plan to eventually do something like that for a pair of Timors or Ackies. What did you use for the sliding part? Plexiglass? Plastic? I'd love to learn how you went about constructing that.

Emily
npoh.egomantra.com

The sliding door is a pair of 1/4" glass panels in a four piece wooden frame bolted together. Although it looks real nice I wouldn't recommend a wooden frame for the door track in the future becuase it takes forever to line up properly, and when condensation runs down the glass the wood will degrade. (I see this every day, sigh.)

-Nick

nice enclosure nick. tegus are a lot of fun. i have kept a pair of colombians and a trio of chacoans, great animals, but i am focused on different things (monitors, pythons). you should use that dam you built and put some dirt in there bud, tegus are fossorial. later, andrew
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Varanus Creations

"Bud",

The bottom of the cage is down another 10" from what you see (imagine a recessed tub). I have the substrate dam raised six inches above the substrate becuase "enclosure ver 1.0" was ending up with clogged door tracks all the time.

He has a nice burrow on one end of the cage. (Not covering himself with substrate mind you, but a real burrow.)

I promise I did my homework!