Every year my husband gets three good-sized bonuses, and I usually end up spending part of it on another animal or two. This year, I've decided I really don't need any more animals right now, even though there are still a lot of things I'd like to have. I thin kthis year I'm going to work on making my current animal's lives better. I'm thinking about setting up some more natural looking cages. After reading this
post, I thought my animals could also benefit from nicer cages. I won't have the room to build large cages for everybody, but I thought I could build a few, and maybe rotate who gets to live in them. If I het nice enough cages, maybe hubby will even let me put one or two in the living room. [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] I was just wondering if anyone had any input on the idea. I'm thinking of building nice tall cages, with plenty of climbing and basking areas, and maybe even a pool in the bottom with a drain. One of my concerns is substrate-what should I use? I've thought about putting in some plants, so should I just use soil and plant directly in the cage? Or should I use something else and leave the plants in pots, so they'll be easier to replace if/when they get trampled? Any ideas on how to keep the substrate out of the water? How about treaing for mites, if/when I get another dreaded infestation? Could I just spray this type of cage with some Black Knight, or would I have to tear the whole thing apart? If anyone has tried this, let me know. I know it sounds ambitious, but since we will have the money to do it, I would really like to have some nice, museum/zoo type display cages.
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