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Hello everyone,
I have a quick question I hope someone might be able to help me with; I’m thinking of building a couple of reptile cages, actually one would be used for red-eyed tree frogs and the other for bearded dragons. Anyway, I recently saw a product called “Rust-Oleum EPOXYShield” and I thought it might be perfect to use as a sealant for the wood as it seems tough and attractive as well as easy for who is not particularly skilled (me) to use. Does anyone know if it would hold up to the humidity of the first tank and the heat from the second?
Any insights, advise, or observations would be much appreciated.
Thanks.

I recently saw this in Home Depot and I called Rustoleum about it, and they said as long as it has time to gas out it should hold up to anything living. I still havent bought mine, but it is gonna be the bottom of my snake cages...
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Coastal Carpet Python 0.1 (Lillith)
Albino Burm 0.1 (Kimba)
Columbian RedTail 0.1 (Squishy)
Kenyan Sand Boa 1.0 (Shai'hulud)
Common Snapping Turtle 1.1 (Sherman and Abrahms)
RES 1.0 (speedy)

>>Anyway, I recently saw a product called “Rust-Oleum EPOXYShield” and I thought it might be perfect to use as a sealant for the wood as it seems tough and attractive as well as easy for who is not particularly skilled (me) to use. Does anyone know if it would hold up to the humidity of the first tank and the heat from the second?

Remember: EPOXYShield is designed to be used on concrete. If you go to the Rust-oleum website, you'll see that it doesn't come up as one of the recommended products for wood application.

Also, you can't buy EpoxyShield in small quantities. The smallest I've seen is enough to cover 250 square feet! Retail is around $125 for this kit, IIRC. Mail-order prices seem to go as low as $65 shipping. Before investing in this product, I'd want to make damn sure that it was going to adhere properly to wood!

If I were you, I'd probably build the cages out of MDO and use a much cheaper paint...