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I recently got two female uropltus henkeli to add to breed with my male, butthey are too young still (didn't think they would be). So I'll be separating the male for the next 4 months or so while I grow out the girls more. I was a bad herper and didn't actually have an appropriate cage to put him into if the girls were to small, so he is in a 20 gallon right now, but I just threw together a neat arboreal setup out of a 50 gallon Sterilite Tub. It's not "done" done, but just about. I still need to figure out how to light it, but that should be easy enough (compact fluorescent!). He'll be in it tomorrow night, and I'll post another pic of it finished.

Jared
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With great power, comes great responsibility.
-Ben Parker

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With great power, comes great responsibility.
-Ben Parker

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By the way, I need the clamps to keep the sides tight, but they are the small ones so they are a cinch to squeeze (even for my wife who CANNOT open the large spring clamps! lol!).

Oh, and the plethora of screws holding the substrate dam in place are to keep the seam tightly sealed with 7" of substrate in place, and a bead of hot glue on the inside finishes the job.

In case anyone wanted to know, the tub cost me $15 as Target, I had the plexy for the front, but a new sheet that size would only be about $10 at H0me Dep0 , the 32 screws tightly clamping the substrate dam into place were $3 at HD, the spring clamps where $3 a piece so $12 total, the hinges I had, and I had some fiberglass screen sitting around to use for vents (do not use fiberglass screen if you will have free roaming crix, they will chew through it and get out).

I used hot glue--which I never seem to run out of, so I have no idea how much it costs--to seal and attach all permanent fixtures. I find hot glue to bind very tightly and be fully waterproof on sterilite containers.

This cage cost me under $30 and took about 4 hours to slap together (yeah, that long with all the cutting, gluing, drilling, and manual screw driving).

Jared
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With great power, comes great responsibility.
-Ben Parker

I like it. I'll make sure to link to this picture whenever I recommend my storage tote design. That way people can understand a wider range of options available when building a storage tote cage.

I see you got a henkeli from Ben Smith? I know Ben quite well. In fact I think I'm the one who originally suggested Uroplatus to him.

Awesome lizards.
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Current snakes:

0.1 Gonyosoma oxycephala - (Silver/Yellow)

1.2 Gonyosoma oxycephala - (Green)

7.6 Gonyosoma janseni - (Black)

0.1 Gonyosoma janseni - (Black & Tan)