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Hi Folks:

I am a longtime lurker who has learned a great deal about building cages from this forum. Unfortunately, due to family commitments, I do not have the time to build a new cage for my lizards, so I have to go the commercial route.

I have 1.1 Angel Island Chuckwallas that I have kept in a 5x2x2 cage for the past 6 years (they are 7 years old). While the lizards are doing extremely well, I have not had breeding success with them, and after speaking with some other keepers, I think I need to put them in a larger enclosure. I am looking for a cage with dimensions 8wx3dx3h. In researching different options, it looks like my main alternatives are cages by Cages by Design (CbD) and JWorlds. I am wondering if anyone has had experiences with either of these manufacturers. The CbD cages seem pretty good, although I am concerned that they can hold the weight of the substrate and rocks. I am also not sure how the laminate that they use will look (my wife insists that the cages have to look really nice...I built a couple of large oak cages about 15 years ago that still look great and which have held up well). The JWorlds cages look very nice but are very expensive and may be too difficult to break down if I ever have to move them.

Anyway, any feedback on these companies, or other suggestions would be greatly appreciated. As I said, this forum is by far the best spot to get insight on cage building...someone should distill the posts and use them to write a book on cage construction (I still have my booklet "Reptile Cages You Can Build" that I got in 1975 and used the designs as the basis for some of the cages that I built back in the old days!).

Thanks for your help!

Bart

I have also was thinking of obtaining a large habitat as well and I have seen both of there websites I also did not like the laminate flooring from cbd but they offer different flooring as well I know you can custom built a cage on there web site with many different options the other ting I dont like is that the backwall and the clifs they offer the cage sould be as natural as possible but it looks very artificial same goes for the cages by jworlds If I had to pick between the 2 I would go for jworlds But I have a few questions for you
what type of habbitat are you looking for ex. natural, wetland woodland, dessert, vivarium, paludarium
also where do you live because the shipping will get pricey
I know jworlds delivers and sets up there tanks and they by far look better than cbd but I think that you will have more options in terms of dimmentions with cbd
write back let me know what you are deciding