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Good or bad idea? If anyone has been successful doing so, what thickness of glass? Plate? Tempered? Im just looking to do something i haven't tried with my cages, just have to find a way to keep crickets in if i decide on this design lol.

Cheers
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0.0.1 Varanus Salvator (Gator)
0.1.3 Varanus Exanthematicus (Adisa "long term captive" other 3 "yet to be named hatchlings"
2.0 Ferrets (Chaos & Kasha)
1.0 Cat (George)

>> Good or bad idea? If anyone has been successful doing so, what
>> thickness of glass? Plate? Tempered?

My experience with glass doors began and ended with trying one on one of my argus cages. After three broken glass panels in less than a month (one from a large male argus hitting it at top speed) I switched to plexiglas. This was 1/8 inch untempered glass, I'd like to try 1/4 inch tempered sometime, but have not gotten around to it yet.

Good luck,

Luke

I've only used plexi-glass or screened doors for my cages. I'm not good w/ glass. Come up 95 some time we can hang out. Email or call me after 10 tonight.

I don't have a salv. but I did make a sliding door out of some J frame mirror holders and a thick piece of plexiglass that I got at Home Depot. It works great for me and I have never had a cricket get out. You could add a rubber flap that goes under a screen door to the sides of the opening connected to the wood. Let the flap over lap onto the plexiglass, and this would leave no opening for a cricket to get out of. It works great because there is only 1 piece of plexiglass to look through and no seam.

Here is a pic of the sliding door on my water dragon enclosure.

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Ed

There are water dragons, chameleons, and monitors in my jungle room.

I used 1/4" tempered glass for sliding glass doors on my salvator enclosure. I have no complaints, other than the substrate getting in the track making them difficult to slide sometimes. I'd use a different track if I had it to do over, but all I could find locally was the inexpensive plastic track. I still may change it at a later date. The glass has been tail whacked pretty good several times and is still holding up strong. The other thing I did was get a sliding glass cabinet door lock, so my enclosure is secured with a keyed lock at all times. Visitors and children cannot gain access easily. You'd be surprised how stupid people can be sometimes, lol.
I would not consider sliding plexiglas for a salvator enclosure. If it's not firmly anchored a strong monitor can push it out of a track because it flexes. Strangely enough the tempered glass, even though it took 3 days to get, ended up being cheaper for me here than untempered would have been. I was jonesing to get the cage done and considered untempered glass, until I got the quote, LOL. If you do decide to go with glass, make sure to order the edges polished, it only costs a few bucks more.
Good luck!