eh hosers, Im back over here too

[mar]

eh hosers

I'm back over here. I think this is now my third account here, neither of the other two worked for some reason.

For those of you that don't know me from the other forums (IZ, GIS, HCN, RF) I have kept my male ig, Bob or Blob, for a little over ten years now and I really like to talk about lizard cages.

[Marie]

Welcome back Mark.

Sorry about your accounts but we try to keep the membership current. Inactive accounts do get dropped after months of inactivity. It makes our numbers seem smaller but it is more accurate. But of course someone can always rejoin like you did. LOL. And I'm very glad you did. I hope to see you and Bob around now that you are done with school.

You wont be alone in talking about lizard cages. Patrick does too. We are planning my second enclosure so Huff can move out of the back bedroom to be with the rest of us. Just waiting for the lawyer to send me my money. I'm looking forward to it being built.

There been a few changes since you were here so go ahead and look around. Again glad you are here again.

[ChamZilla]

Hey there Mark and Bob or Blob

Welcome and hope you enjoy it here. There are a lot of ideas that different people have there iguana's in and some of them are very beautiful with hand painted scenery in them also. But some of them are just plain old enclosures like the one I currently have. But I'm going to change that in the future when my little guy grows out of this one. RZ since she is a special needs iguana has a plain one also but at least she has marble tile, bed and her pillow. She's a big sucky baby also!

Hope to hear more about Bob soon

Glad your account worked this time!

[mar]

Well ChamZilla I kind of have a special needs cage. I needed it to collapse quickly and small enough to fit with other stuff in my small Saturn as I move between school and one of my parents houses a few times a year. Then I had to do that on a student's budget. I ended up with a bare bones PVC frame using about 1/2 of the pipe Patrick uses for the same size. Over that I have a softside wall of canvas. The front zips on to the wall cowl, the ramps and shelves zip to the wall and hang from the frame, the lighting fits in the cage on a light bar, and the clear PVC-fabric door zips open like a tent flap. All in all my 4x4x6 cage fits into a duffle and I can carry the whole thing and the 10 year old ig in one trip and almost still have a free hand -- you know how it is carrying a 11 pound lizard. I've now built this design in a corner cage (ala lizardcages.com), and rectangular 4x4, 3x6, 4x8, and 6x9 footprints. I can go from a bagged cage to the cage set up with lizard and food inside of it within 45 minutes.

[ChamZilla]

Thats great! My ig is special needs not me, she does travel in the semi with us on short trips as she loves to sleep with me if given the chance. She likes to sit beside the window watching all the things going on outside. RZ can't walk with her hind legs at all, due to MBD and spinal fractures. I've only had her almost a year now. She has come a long way within this year. I am proud of her and I couldn't have done it without the help of the people on this site. They are great!

I wish my ig was 11lbs, I'm lucky if RZ breaks 4lbs. I'm lucky to have found her though, I wouldn't trade her for anything

Those cages are a really good idea if you need to go somewhere, thats really neat. Your ig sounds like a lucky guy also

[mar]

Three quick pics of Bob


Come to think of it this one kind of reminds me of Patrick's pic of Mr Worf on the folding porch chair

[really]

I really like your transportable cage idea. I'd love to see more. We had to evacuate with, among other animals, two iggies (& 3 parrots) and lost their enclosures in Katrina. Now we're seriously into the idea of portable cages in case we need to bug out in the future, though we've at least temporarily relocated to Texas.

Really

[mar]

I didn't originally build this cage to be highly portable rather I needed an iguana cage on a student budget. I ended up with a 4x8x6 cage for about $150 out of pocket. While I am more of a woodworker I learned to sew because I found that fabric would work well for an ig. Nearly all parts of the cage have now been reworked.

For the floor I use a tarp which wraps up the walls about 6 inches kind of like the soft-trays for a reptarium. Along the top of the tarp I ran velcro so it will attach to the wall but still easily remove for cleaning. This gives me a floor liner which I can lift out and clean with bleach in the drive way or bath tub but will still contain any spill within the cage.

I have a few pics of the cage in the enclosure thread "new pics of my 4x4x6 cage" and many more in the photobucket I link to in my signature. I am slowly selling these cages as people come to me wanting one so I don't give instructions on how to build one. As with anything spending time designing before you start pays off with huge dividends.

I recently sold and shipped a 4x4x6 cage to a town about 60 km north of Toronto ON. In this I included all the parts needed except the large pipes for the frame -- walls, front, shelves, ramps, light mounts, velcro removal floor liner, frame fittings. My client decided not to have me ship $10 of PVC for $60 in shipping cost. This cage fit into a 6" x 18" x 24" box and I had to include some filler when packing it. Even though each one is a custom job, like Patrick's are, they really aren't all that expensive.

[really]

My dh is currently building an enclusure for our cyclura using PVC pipe and design a cube grates because we had the grates when we first moved into the house (we used them for furniture). It's killing me to see him go through all this work for a cage that won't last more than a year or two, but he said he'll be able to reuse the panels he's building when he builds a large outdoor cage once we settle into a permanent home. This enclosure is for our cyclura so we're going with similar dimensions but with the smallest side going to height since cyclura are terrestrial. The green's enclosure will be next, but for now, he's smaller than the cyclura and can use her old enclosure. Musical cages. Fun. Going to look at your stuff now.

Really

[Patrick Kubeja]

Hey Mark

Glad you could make it back! Hope you do not mind me butting in on this conversation
But I just want to say Welcome back!

Patrick

[Denise]

Welcome back Mark..thanks for sharing Bob or Blob's pic's I enjoyed them very much!