Hey guys, so a friend of mine is giving me his red tegu. So I am in the process of relocating and by that I mean in a year or three I will be moving out of this home to another home.
I want to have a tegu set up I could easily assemble and disassemble.
It has to be on the lighter weight side because I am very physically weak and frail, and I have only 1 friend to help me.
I am going around to different custom cage builders and a lot of them are really expensive- which is fine... but I am concerned over quality too...
Not trying to take a dookie on these people but I bought a zenhabitat and the materials are poorly made. Rather weak and flimsy. The tegu is currently going to be in a 4x2x2 zen, and it's only like a few months old. Rather big tho already. So I need to like upgrade it within a month or three I'd figure. I want to upgrade it to the standard 8x4x4 as that's the space I currently have available and everywhere states that it's enough of a size for them. Although ideally would like to give them a 12x5x5... but that won't happen for a long time.
So like... I am thinking I sort of like the idea of zen habitats (even though their quality is dookie) of like.... a metal frame that's made waterproof one way or another.... So that I could just slide the panels in and remove them at will.
One of the problems I think they have is that the bottom doesn't have middle support. I think every 2 ft should have some sort of support bar... Also when I try disassembling the thing it broke... even though I followed all instructions... Long story short, got another zen from a person online... but thats only a temp fix.
I want to be able to light that baby up. I want the strongest lights because I've been frequenting a forum on fb and there's a few actual biologists there that speak on the fact that our lights are actually rather dim in comparison to outside light. That while we see these lights as being bright- it's because our eyes are adjusting to it....
Anyways long story short. Anyone know of anyone whose willing to sell easy to assemble enclosures that don't need actual powertools or just plain easy to assemble and disassemble? I have a rubber mallet if it counts. lol.....Just got quoted by someone for 6k USD for an 8x4x4 enclosure and it's using 3/4 inch of pvc panels... I want to have like strong support on the top of the cage so it can hold heavy lighting.... One of the lights I want easily weighs like 30-40lbs? Or so I got told.... the 4x4 lights are heavy. Rather expensive too. So don't want it breaking on me because it fell...
Anyways any input would be super nice.... P.s. I can't build for my life. Don't want anyone in my house so I don't want someone to install stuff. I want to be able to easily put it together.
I want to have a tegu set up I could easily assemble and disassemble.
It has to be on the lighter weight side because I am very physically weak and frail, and I have only 1 friend to help me.
I am going around to different custom cage builders and a lot of them are really expensive- which is fine... but I am concerned over quality too...
Not trying to take a dookie on these people but I bought a zenhabitat and the materials are poorly made. Rather weak and flimsy. The tegu is currently going to be in a 4x2x2 zen, and it's only like a few months old. Rather big tho already. So I need to like upgrade it within a month or three I'd figure. I want to upgrade it to the standard 8x4x4 as that's the space I currently have available and everywhere states that it's enough of a size for them. Although ideally would like to give them a 12x5x5... but that won't happen for a long time.
So like... I am thinking I sort of like the idea of zen habitats (even though their quality is dookie) of like.... a metal frame that's made waterproof one way or another.... So that I could just slide the panels in and remove them at will.
One of the problems I think they have is that the bottom doesn't have middle support. I think every 2 ft should have some sort of support bar... Also when I try disassembling the thing it broke... even though I followed all instructions... Long story short, got another zen from a person online... but thats only a temp fix.
I want to be able to light that baby up. I want the strongest lights because I've been frequenting a forum on fb and there's a few actual biologists there that speak on the fact that our lights are actually rather dim in comparison to outside light. That while we see these lights as being bright- it's because our eyes are adjusting to it....
Anyways long story short. Anyone know of anyone whose willing to sell easy to assemble enclosures that don't need actual powertools or just plain easy to assemble and disassemble? I have a rubber mallet if it counts. lol.....Just got quoted by someone for 6k USD for an 8x4x4 enclosure and it's using 3/4 inch of pvc panels... I want to have like strong support on the top of the cage so it can hold heavy lighting.... One of the lights I want easily weighs like 30-40lbs? Or so I got told.... the 4x4 lights are heavy. Rather expensive too. So don't want it breaking on me because it fell...
Anyways any input would be super nice.... P.s. I can't build for my life. Don't want anyone in my house so I don't want someone to install stuff. I want to be able to easily put it together.