Porch Enclosure

I currently have my ball python and dumerils boa in plastic sweater bins, they work great, very easy to clean, light weight for moving, retains heat and humidity very well, they are both growing and i need to upgrade to a permanent enclosure, i want to use the same type of enclosure but i cannot find a plastic bin big enough, im looking for one about 4 feet long and 2 feet wide mine are currently 3 feet long and 18 inches wide, i went to walmart and target and couldnt find one any bigger, any idea where i could get one? a store or online? This is a pic of what a plastic bin looks like

http://www.rubbermaid.com/Assets/images/Product/3q32-clmcb-xlarge.jpg

mine are not as tall and height isnt really a factor.
thanks

Yeah V175. I picked a few fro $25 each this last Christmas from Walmart. These are the Christmas tree storage. ReptileTubs.com carries then year round, but at a higher price plus shipping. My juvenile boas are in Sterilite 34-Qt ( lime green latches), many would say this is fine for a BP. Your 3ft x 18in will be good for the BP. Sterlite 105-QT(lime green latches) would be good to. Neodesha Plastics makes great cages. These are the only commercial cages I have used, since my parents used to work there, and my wife and some of my family does now. I will recommend Boaphile Plastics too. Though I haven’t bought cages from there I have gotten boas from Jeff, any that have done business with him will tell that customer service is above none.

and if you own one can you post pics of it and i’s enclosure?

Mines a female, around 6-7inches long. I have her in a tote right now (wasn’t planning on getting it, neighbor was going to chuck her outside). I want to get a bigger tote to put her in but I’m not sure how big I should get. Do they get much larger?
I’m going to get a tote big enough for her, many people house them safely in totes…

The usual bare minimum is 10 gallons per inch of shell. However, you can "cheat" a bit if you have a very low, broad tank, like a wading pool. They’re cheap, too. Anything over 4′ diameter should do for now but get the largest one you have room for to avoid having to replace it.

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 enclosure. 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.