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I asked in the cage design forum with little help, they wanted me to use substrates that could impact them -_-

I was going to make a melamine one, but supposedly the ones with the white stuff don't hold up to humidity well... Any help is appreciated

Tile board seems to hold up well and it's only $10 a sheet. It's only 1/8" thick, though. You could maybe use it to laminate wood or something.

Good luck!

Julie

And how big is a sheet?

Could I just screw it onto the normal wood?

That would be nice if I could use cheap ply wood and cover it in that, would save money and weight...

Any ideas for the front? I was going to use mesh top but then I don't know how I would do glass front...

I made this enclosure in about half a day with no plans and scrap wood. For some reason it isn't showing the picture. Maybe it will when I post it. If not I'll try again. It is made of just wood and screen basically.

One sheet is 4' x 8', same size as plywood or any other sheet of wood. I personally don't recommend screen caging because it doesn't hold in heat and humidity. It is also a potential hazard when the iguana gets bigger in that the claws can get caught. The tail tip also tends to get caught sometimes.

Check out this site: www.lizardcages.com, there are several photos of cages that are made of PVC, tile board and large plastic-coated screen. They might give you some design ideas.

Hope this helps!

Julie

I have to mist quite a bit to get the humidity up. It stays around 40-45 which someone said that was ok. I try to keep it above 55 if I can. I haven't had problems keeping the heat in, but The encloser is in the corner of a room so that might help. Then I put a piece of plastic on the one side(you can see it in the pic.). That helped. I would have liked to use plexiglass, but I wasn't able to get any when I built this enclosure.