Porch 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.

This Question is on a Pipeline Operator Written Exam.

The choices are:

a.Encase it in gas-tight metal pipe and fittings.

b.Keep the vault open to allow escape of any gas leaked.

c.Vent the vault through an activated charcoal canister to prevent odor-ant from escaping into air.

d.Place perement line markers over the line on both sides of the vault.

Don’t know for sure, but just using common sense:

c.Vent the vault through an activated charcoal canister to prevent odor-ant from escaping into air.
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a. is wrong, it would be ridiculous, because if you encased the vault with pipes and fittings, you couldn’t access the vault.

b. is wrong because if you kept the vault open, then anything, including water, dirt, and animals could enter the vault defeating it’s protection status.

d. is wrong, because permanent markers, would easily fade over time underground and would be meaningless shortly

I’ve gotten as far as revoving the entire back seat, but i cant remove the back so i can get to my speakers. It seems that there are those little plastic things holding the enclosure to the metal, but i am completely stuck what do i do. Very specific details would be great. thanks.

After removing the ass rest as I am assuming you mean you already have, there is usually two to four bolts holding the back rest against the body. These can be stand alone bolts or use the seat belt anchors. You will have to look to see which ones have to come out. Once all are removed the seat back will be loose at the bottom, if it is not there are still bolts holding the back rest to the body. After the back rest is loose at the bottom, you have to grab the seat back rest and shove it upwards. There are usually two to four hook type holders that grab the back rest near the top of the seat. That is it, now just pull the seat out of the car. Good luck.

I’ve bumped the brake light on my wife’s new Vauxhall Corsa into a lamppost. The red plastic on the fog light has cracked off. About how much should I expect to pay to replace presumably the whole light enclosure? Also, is it legal in the meantime to tape the red plastic bits back into place?

If you tape it so that the light is showing correctly at the rear i don’t think that the police would stop you on the road but the car wouldn’t pass MOT with it taped up.You need to buy the whole lamp.It will cost you the price of a 2 pairs of new shoes for your wife

Has anyone heard of a hack to use a webcam as a portable video camera?

Ideally I’d like to connect a webcam and data storage device that uses pro duo cards or flash cards.

The obvious first choice would be to use PSP and a webcam, but the only option here seems to be to buy the go!cam. Connecting a webcam to a PSP may be possible with homebrew but the information online is not clear.

Are there any other solutions that anyone has heard of? Ideally I’d like a small light setup that I can attach to a rowing shell (like olympic rowing boat). It needs to be light, small, battery powered, and cheaper than the go!cam at about $50.

Putting a laptop in the boat is not an option.

I’ll also need to be able to build waterproof enclosures for it out of plastic plumbing parts or sealed kayaking type storage boxes from MEC.

Thanks in advance

Nope…….

The only way I would think of would be a slug….
A linksys nslu2 with flashed firmware will operate a webcam, noprob and record things onto a hard drive or a flash drive….

The NSLU2 computer is about $20….on ebay…but would require big battery…

im planing to get my first pet snake but im not sure if i should get a glass tank or a plastic container

honestly here plastic containers are a poor mans route to a enclosure of any pet including snakes. and any animal at that is an investment period. although depending on the type of snake corn, ball, garter, rat, king milk, etc. a plastic container wouldnt be a bad idea to start off the first month or two in jus to get used to you and relieve stress. after that a regular enclosure is a must. as for RTB burmese retic tree boas and pythons a regualr enclosure is a must from the get go