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Last year at the National breeder’s show in Daytona, my wife and I were introduced to a leachianus for the first time. We knew at that very moment, we wanted one. As we were unfamiliar with the care and husbandry practices of this species, we did the smart thing and left without one; but we did manage to purchase one of the only books on the subject. So we’ve been planning to own one for a year now; patiently waiting for the annual Daytona show.

We custom built an enclosure, and I was pretty happy with the results, so I wanted to share it. This was originally a hexagon curio cabinet. Then we made our “modifications”.

The roof was removed and replaced with screening. One lower pane of glass (side) was removed and replaced with screening as well.
On top of roof screen (mounted on the main structure for support) we have a lighting system with 1 nighttime red bulb, 1 UVA incandescent and 1 24’’ UVB florescent (I do use a low wattage daytime lighting combination).
All lighting is timed for a daytime mode and a nighttime mode.
All vegetation in the cage is fake; we made the trees with stuff we bought at floral supply mart. 2 of the “trees” are yucca logs, and one is bamboo. There are also 2 hinged hides inside.

Anyway, here is a pic. We did attend the Daytona show last weekend, and I’m happy to say that the cage is no longer vacant (pics to follow).

That sure is one beautiful Viv you got there.....I don't envy you when it's time to clean it tho...... =o)
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2.0.0 Cresteds
1.1.0 Afican Fat Tail
0.1.1 Viper Tail
0.0.1 Oedura castelnaui

B E A UTIFUL enclosure. seeing that pic inspires me to convert something into a nice crested enclosure. who knows, maybe a leachie of my very own!!

Where did you buy the "yucca logs"??? I have been looking for something like that for a LONG time! THANKS ERIk

I live in South Florida. We have a store here called "Floral Supply Mart". It's a pretty large store with ALL artificial plants, trees and related supplies. I was browsing the bamboo logs that were out on the sales floor. I stopped an employee passing by and asked if they had anything thicker. He took me to the back where they had yucca logs.

They sold me 1 log about 9 feet in length for about 30 bucks or so. I cut the log in to 2 pieces of different lenghts as shown in the pic. I also bought the fake foliage which I mounted on top of these logs.

By the way, the yucca logs are extremely light weight.

Beautiful job! A real "Showcase"! I'm sure you were thorough enough to watch what kind of fake foliage you bought, but would like to warn novices that they want the plastic-coated stuff which can be easily washed when soiled. I inadventantly bought some material leafy-vines early on which "bled" color when I misted, and who knows what kind of dyes they use on the cheap stuff from overseas wherever.
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Terri
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