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i have noticed in my personal experience that collared tend to wall scratch more in glass aquariums than in other types of cages.

just curious if anyone else has noticed this to be true? i have both wooden and glass setups.

i put the lizards in the wood cage in brumation and since it was bigger, i moved the lizards that were in the glass tank to the wooden one.

one of my recently aquired lizards was wall scratching in the glass tank but now he seems content to explore and relax in a more visually confining space.

the wooden cage has a clear front only and occasionally a few lizards will come up to the glass, but they dont persistantly scratch.

also, the juvenile collared i just got is now in the glass tank and is scrathing.

Has anyone seen a difference from glass cages opposed to other types?

And my lizards only occasionaly scratch, and only on the glass.

i made my cage to open from the front, so i made a lip to hold in the sand when the door is opened. it keeps them below the level of the plexiglass. it wasnt intended but this might be why they dont scratch.

another thing, occasionally they will scratch at the background which is laminated and stuck on the inside of the cage.

my cage is 6 feet in the air, AND it opens from the top!!!
Just imagine the fun of rearranging the rocks or trying to catch a lizard!!

i like the way you can see the sand in your cage.

i thought about doing something where you see different levels below the sand like rock layers.

if you are looking for background pictures you can try this site.

http://www.naturezonepet.com/backgrounds.php

there are some high resolution nature shots. i just print them on 8x11 paper ,tape em together , and have kikos laminate em.

I like your work, AWESOME
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PHEve / Eve

Yeah, me too. I would LOVE to have one of those beauts!

élan
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0.3.0 Collareds
1.0.0 Mali Uromastix
0.0.1 Butterfly Agama
1.0.0 Green Anole
1.0.0 Chinese Dwarf Newt
2.0.0 California Newts
0.0.1 White's Treefrog
0.0.1 Fire bellied toad
0.0.1 Midland Brown Snake
2.1.0 Felines
0.2.0 Canines
1.0.0 Equine

I was out looking for snakes and stuff, and found an old 3'x7' piece of glass near an old burned out building!
I took it home and took a scotch-brite pad to it and VIOLA...my new cage front!
That gave me the front dimentions, then I just gathered up scraps of plywood, and 2x4's to finish it. with rocks and sand it EASILY weighs 1/2 a TON! It isn't much to look at but they seem to like it!

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