Enclosure pics...good or bad?

kris21 · Postby **kris21** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 2:50 am

Ok so here are a few pics of my enclosure, i just wanna know if its ok, or if there is too much in there etc?
There are 2 blueys in there at the moment and when the one i keep grows i know i will need to take some of the stuff out. I just added them coz it was so dull and needed something to brighten the place up, it was grey and all boring. I do know i need a bigger water dish, they do fit in that one but won't for too much longer.
Also here is a pic of my smallest baby waiting to get out and diving onto my hand.

Kris

Leigh · Postby **Leigh** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 3:37 am

If you put the basking spot on stilts, you'll have a hide as well.does your cat bother them? Mine sit on the floor under the tank weoowing up at blue.

kris21 · Postby **kris21** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 4:04 am

Hi Leigh,
Well i actually thought it might have been a little to close to the lights...im not sure but that is a paver so putting it on stilts would worry me a bit.
Well the cat and my dogs could sit there for hours watching them, the cat doesn't really bother with them but my fox terrier would eat them if i let her!

Kris

Funda · Postby **Funda** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 4:08 am

Nice set up!!
It looks great to me!
But as Leigh mentioned about the whole 'hide under the basking rock' thing.. good idea

Your blueys look great too!

:blueyprint:

f.C

Leigh · Postby **Leigh** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 6:20 am

kris21 wrote:Hi Leigh,
Well i actually thought it might have been a little to close to the lights...im not sure but that is a paver so putting it on stilts would worry me a bit.
Well the cat and my dogs could sit there for hours watching them, the cat doesn't really bother with them but my fox terrier would eat them if i let her!

Kris

My suggestion would be to silicone in each corner, a bit of pipe{plastic wastepipe} a couple of inches long, you wouldn't have to turn it into a Queenslander :lol:

, you'd be suprised how low they can go hee hee

Hijinks · Postby **Hijinks** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 10:01 am

It looks nice! It's obvious that you put a lot of work into it!

I also really like raised platforms. I have two, one on the warm end (raised basking tile) and one on the cool end (raised tile for water dish). My skink spends a lot of time underneath them, and what's interesting is that he seems to burrow less than he did when I first got him. It's cool because he must feel secure in these little caves, but I am still able to see him. It also seems to me that he gets a lot of exercise and enrichment from climbing up and down.

evil pixie · Postby **evil pixie** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 10:04 am

Looks fantastic to me; I'd live there if I were a skink :wink:

KyleWeiss · Postby **KyleWeiss** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 6:56 pm

Can't wait until the pretty little perfect setup gets SKINKY POO all over it! :ohyes:

That's the fun part... for them!

KW

kris21 · Postby **kris21** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 11:08 pm

Actually these 2 seem pretty clean....must be girls

They don't seem to kick stuff everywhere or leave droppings everywhere either. But i don't mind if they mess it up, its not too hard to tidy.
I will try to evevate the basking rock up a few inches to give them another hide.
I brought some desert background today too....maybe i should have put that up then taken pics, lol oh well.

Kris

kris21 · Postby **kris21** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 1:45 am

Ok i put the background up and i think it looks better, gets rid of all that white.

Funda · Postby **Funda** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 1:54 am

Oh my gosh!
That looks wonderful!!
Great choice of background!

:blueyprint:

f.C

kris21 · Postby **kris21** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 2:26 am

Thanks Funda

Leigh · Postby **Leigh** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 4:35 am

What brilliant touch, that back drop looks too cool.

kris21 · Postby **kris21** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 4:51 am

Thanks Leigh,
Yeah it was the only one i could find that size so it had to do.
My bluey even tried to climb up the grass....guess it looks real, lol!

Kris

russman · Postby **russman** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 5:50 am

Neato background.. I like the touch.

KyleWeiss · Postby **KyleWeiss** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 12:37 pm

kris21 wrote:Actually these 2 seem pretty clean....must be girls
They don't seem to kick stuff everywhere or leave droppings everywhere either. But i don't mind if they mess it up, its not too hard to tidy.
I will try to evevate the basking rock up a few inches to give them another hide.
I brought some desert background today too....maybe i should have put that up then taken pics, lol oh well.

Kris

Must be gi---rl---s.... :rofl:

Don't get me started. Every girl I'm friends with is the biggest slob I know. :lol:

Oh they'll mess it up. A nice skink tootsie roll baking away on the basking rock or somehow shot all over the plants will show you what "girls" they really are... :hehe:

KW

kris21 · Postby **kris21** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 4:30 pm

Haha well i hope you're wrong but if you are right....i won't tell ya :wink:

Kris

KyleWeiss · Postby **KyleWeiss** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 11:10 am

...if....

...IF?

:mrgreen:

KW

MartinsPerson · Postby **MartinsPerson** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 11:45 am

KyleWeiss wrote:
Must be gi---rl---s.... Don't get me started. Every girl I'm friends with is the biggest slob I know.

Oh they'll mess it up. A nice skink tootsie roll baking away on the basking rock or somehow shot all over the plants will show you what "girls" they really are...

KW

Easy there turbo! I'm a total neat freak, and still female the last time that I checked.

KyleWeiss · Postby **KyleWeiss** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 11:55 am

...still male here, supercharger (turbo? :oi:

) and I'd ask Julia Child herself, rest her soul, to take off her shoes before entering my front door. :edward:

You know what they say about stereotypes... :lazy:

KW

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