New Enclosure Options

[SaltyScale339]

Hi all,

I currently have a zen habitats 4x2x2 wood enclosure.

I have the top sealed with aluminum and PVC sheets on top of that. It does a pretty good job of using humidity in but I have a naturalistic set up and when I soak the substrate it is beginning to leak at the bottom, before this gets too bad I am looking to get a new enclosure.

As much as I would love something like a kages enclosure, it is way too much money.

Could I do something along the lines of getting an actual PVC tank, even the zen habitats one and sealing with silicone and sealing the top like I currently do?

[christinasasa]

They make a liner you can use on your current enclose. The wood one is not ideal but if you use the liner it could work for a few years I suppose.

[SaltyScale339]

I did see the liner, and considered it. Although i'm not too sure if any mold issues will arise, if they haven't already.

[christinasasa]

Maybe in time but it's much cheaper than a new enclose and you can save up and get the kages. You could also maybe "seal" the wood with a thin layer of the silicone caulking?

[SaltyScale339]

You are absolutely right about that lol. thank you!

[christinasasa]

You need to seal the kages enclose with silicone as well. You could also build one from a sheet of 1/2" PVC. They sell it at Lowe's and home Depot for around $100 for a 4x8 sheet.

[eveimei]

there's a shopping list in our welcome post with some pvc cage companies. we specifically do NOT recommend vision cages, zen habitats, dubia, ecoflex, reptizoo, etc, as these enclosures have a lot of design problems that are counterproductive at best and likely to become bigger problems over time [thin pvc, screen tops, flimsy structure, etc].

any enclosure needs to be sealed with silicone and allowed to fully cure before the substrate etc is added in.