Porch Enclosure

i am planning on having about 3 of them and they need to be inside for the most part i found some good 20 dollar plastic containers but nobody sells them anymore because they are "seasonal items"does anybody have some of those or any other good sizes plastic containers

Hello. Russian Tortoises are very interesting to keep and breed, but plastic containers are not suitable and will cause a variety of health problems in time. Please see this excellent Tortoise Trust article on constructing a Table Top Tortoise Habitat for details on an easy-to-build enclosure: http://www.tortoisetrust.org/articles/Tortoisetable.htm. For more on keeping Russian Tortoises, please see my article at http://blogs.thatpetplace.com/thatreptileblog/2009/06/26/the-russian-or-horsefield%e2%80%99s-tortoise-an-ideal-%e2%80%9cfirst-tortoise%e2%80%9d/.
Good luck and enjoy!

I have seen a lot of laptops that have aluminum shells but the bottom is still plastic, i would like to know other laptops that have a full aluminum enclenclosure. Not this half aluminum half plastic stuff. Thanks in Advance.

Dell

I saw one today which is sort of like a sponge filter, you put it underwater and attatch an air pump to it. The diagram showed it attatches the same way but it was in japanese and it’s like a little plastic enclosure with some sort of replacable filter media inside it, which probably works the same way as the sponge does. I just need to know what they are called so i can look them up on the net and find out more about them…
heres what i saw

http://www.kotobuki-kogei.co.jp/product/index.php?CID=59
heres what i saw

http://www.kotobuki-kogei.co.jp/product/index.php?CID=59
Oh… Are they more effective than sponge filters of the same size?

It’s just like the old box filters driven by an air pump. This one simply has a more contemporary shape & is meant for small tanks. There’s a small internal airstone that’ll create bubbles that rise from the funnel on top. As you can see from the replacement media, the outside is filter wool with probably an inner carbon sponge.

In a plastic chinese container. It has a rock, wet green leaves and some food. But the container is tiny!
I told him that if he wont get a proper enclosure for it he should let it go, but he wont let it go and he believes that the frog has a perfect enclousure when clearly it doesn’t.
We had a fight about it, so, should I just stop pestering him?

Wow! Like the kind soup comes in…that’s way too small. I agree with the other answers. Maybe the guy is just cheap. Go and buy a proper enclosure and he might give in and use it. Poor little frog.

I’ve been latley thinking about getting a coastal carpet python. I would prefer to raise one from a hatchling or yearling, but i dont really know what size terrarium/vivarium is best for one so small. Ive read people keep them in a shoe box sized plastic box for the first 12 months, until its feeding well, then move to a small aquarium then a large one. What sizes are best??

You can start a fast growing baby in a 20 gallon long that has structures in it to climb and perch. Adults will require a standard room closet sized enclosure.

ok so today i bought a plastic tub taller then wide suitable for a small arboreal snake and would like to pick one up at the reptile expo coming up and dont know how i would heat a tub made of plastic for a snake that doesnt touch the ground because its arboreal also how well ventalated this tub should be and all that stuff maybe even a link or somthing to creating an arboreal plastic tub enclosure or somthing? anything helps thanks!
how does the heat mat attached to the side work? should i make it so the snake would be touching the side of the tub where the heat mat is while it son the perch? or does it heat the air or what?

Actually most arboreals do better in cages with more horizontal than vertical. All my arboreals are kept in wide, moderately tall cages. This makes it easier to control the temps at the bottom of the cage. Amazons spend a lot of time on the ground. Green tree pythons don’t. If this is your first arboreal, then I suggest you get an amazon. If you do purchase a green tree python than buy from a breeder who can show you mother and father. Stay away from anything listed as captive hatched or born. They should only be US captive born and bred or cbb. You’ll pay a little more but you won’t have all the parasite issues and other problems that come with imports. Import amazons are much more hardy but you’ll have to do parasite treatment with them as well.
I use heat mats on the side and top for arboreals when I’m keeping them in tubs. If it’s an amazon I might add one under the tub. You’ll need to drill holes for air along the sides and you can always cover some if it seems to be drying out too quickly. I attach the heat mat with electrical tape or duct tape on the outside of the tub. Heat mats will heat the air nearby and the probe for the thermostat should be placed at perch level on the warm side. I have a caresheet on both amazons and chondros on my website.I think I’ve got pictures of some of the tubs somewhere if you want to e-mail me. There’s a link on my site for e-mail.

I am building a device for an engineering class. I am looking for a tube that inflates vertically. Two ideas crossed my mind… The first was the old school hot wheels toy that had a push pump to launch cars. Our device would require inflating up but the idea is the same. The other is the large device you see in tv ER rooms that breaths for people. An tube moving up and down in a plastic enclosure.

I know this is very vague but all I need is a name for those types of tubes.
A bottle is a similar idea… But I need to be able to expand and collapse the object using air.
An axial pneumatic seal is the closest thing I have found.

If anyone else has some other ideas let me know.

What about an accordion style sports bottle?

Okay.. So I recently bought a Chameleon 7 days ago and had to provide him with only a small plastic enclosure and not enough heat.

I currently have a Computer lamp going over him for heat and lighting for now because I have yet to purchase the neccesities.

I plan on doing it today.
I have been feeding him 6 pinheads a day (feeding crickets carrots)
misting 3 times a day (when I wake up, get home from school, and sleep)

I keep him the computer light for 13 hours a day.

That’s basically it.

I plan on buying him a UVB light and heater.
A calcium food for the crickets as well as the solid water stuff.

A cricket home thing so i can easily put 20ish crickets in there and just feed them all..

a new 2 by 2 by 3 repatrium (4 sided ventilation)
Pothos Plants
a rock wall for the back to help just a tad with humidity and the scalability(if thats a word)
Okay I understand But it was a sudden thing. My dad bought it for me.

Just out of no where.
Not caring about what it took.

Will this shorten his life?
going through all of this must be big time stress for him.

I just want to be able to provide him with what he needs.
Is everything I listed good for him!?

I need to know asap.
None of these even deserve a best answer…
#1 will get it just because he gave me the best idea.

Everyone says the same stupid ass thing..
I get it..
When he comes home with it without saying a thing what am I supposed to do?

god damn..

You should have bought the equipment and had it set up and running at the right temperature and humidity before you bought the chameleon and not after.They do stress alot easier than most lizards and stress is one of the biggest killers of chameleons.you have gone about this the wrong way round.get it into the right set up as soon as poss or there is a good chance it will die,especially if it is only young.

Well my Russian tortoise is 9 years old and lives in a plastic enclosure, i want to get a bigger one but not a vivarium or a tortoise table, any ideas of what to get him, has to be quite big though. And what can i feed him? and what kinda things can i use to make his cage more interesting, thank you
an alternative to a tortoise table is a large rubbermaid tub, your tortoise needs a space area of 2ft by 4ft and should have
a heat lamp
a uv lamp
a substrate 50/50 mix of top soil and play sand
a hide
this is just a basic list, you can make things more interesting by putting in small rocks
small branches these are to climb over as tortoises love to climb, you can also grow grass on trays, they are easy to water and maintain and if they look a bit trampled you put them on a window sill and they recover quite well,
we made a hide out of small branches rather than the ones you buy the tortoise loves it and it is something different, we also change the enclosure around about once a month so our tortoises have to explore for food, and the enclosure change seems to keep them entertained for a while.
feeding should consist of 90% weeds and grasses and other things like salad should only be used as a supplement here is a booklet you can download to see what weeds to feed http://www.tlady.clara.net/id16.htm here is another site which you will find useful http://www.russiantortoise.org/ it will show you how to care for your russian tortoise the last site i am giving you has lots of really good article on tortoise keeping so is worth a look http://www.tortoisetrust.org/ hope you find these useful best of luck honey

Okay, my dad bought me a Pueblan Milk Snake for my birthday. It is very small, only 8 inches or so.
I have it in a 10 gallon terrarium with a "Pet Select Screen Cover" (From Walmart), two x-small plastic flower pots for hiding, a water dish and silk plants. She has a red bulb for heating with a thermometer and is on aspen.

How long will the 10 gallon tank last her if I feed her weekly and is my set up okay? She is so tiny… Will she be able to squeeze herself through the screen lid clips?

Screen lid: http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=3635622

I would say probably not good enough. If she is that small you are going to need a Little more protection for her that that. The 10 gallon tank if fine, the heat bulb is fine, The aspen im not to thrilled about though for one.

Aspen is really easy to clean and is fairly cheap to buy. BUT, when you dump all of that into the cage the dust that comes up can cause upper respiratory infections, and since these are very very small wood chips then, especially for a snake this size, if she where to get one in her mouth and accidentally eat it it could compact her and a vet would charge you A LOT of money just to get it out.

For beading, I recommend Cyprus Mulch, yes i understand I just said no to wood shavings, BUT these are larger that aspen chips and would be extremely hard if not impossible to accidentally swallow.

And yes, I would recommend you get a different top for the cage. There are really strong and very "snake friendly screen tops from I believe FOUR PAWS, brand and that’s all I use on my tanks for my snakes.

Everything else you listed seems about right, oh and dont forget the cage clamps either. AND IT MUST BE ASPEN MULCH, a large bag at like home depot or lowes cost around 2-4$ each and you would have enough there to last you a year or more very easily.

I hope this helped you.