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Posted by RobertBushner on May 08, 2003 at 15:07:08:

In Reply to: first cage ?'s posted by brit59brat on May 08, 2003 at 13:36:17:

waterproof it with FRP or whatever or anything solid and non-toxic.

Wire will let heat and water escape, making it much more difficult to keep adequate temps and humidity.

I have very little ventilation in all of my enclosures, I have built ones with too much ventilation and the substrate dries out, you end up adding water often, and then you will typically get a smelly cold sludge deep in the substrate, not something a monitor will like to burrow into.

--Robert


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