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unbreakable · Key Member Joined: 03 Aug 2007 Posts: 212

looking for ideas on meru enclosures, i know we have a few keepers on here so i would love to see how your housing them, not looking to knock holes in your enclosures like the majority of people do, so please pm me or post back, many thanks

Ryan

kroakykaren · Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 3:08 pm Post subject:

Here are a couple of quick shots Ryan Very Happy

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unbreakable · Key Member Joined: 03 Aug 2007 Posts: 212

very swish! do you have a temperature controlled room? I'm planning on having a full mesh cage but I'm concerned because it is in a bedroom and i have three outside facing walls, may be hard to maintain temperature. I was thinking of designing some kind of hood that would allow me to use a heat lamp.

kroakykaren · Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 7:04 pm Post subject:

Nothing that fancy Ryan, they are in the utility room never gets too hot and gets nice and cool at night Very Happy

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unbreakable · Key Member Joined: 03 Aug 2007 Posts: 212

do you use heat lamps on them though? i still live with my folks so keeping my room at 60 is out of the question, i don't find my panthers a problem because i dint keep them in complete mesh enclosures so the temperature is unaffected by what is going on outside. Really I'm just trying to think of a suitable way i can keep merus, i can use a basking lamp for day time temp but i think using a heat lamp on every single enclosure is going to be quite costly! from what i understand they can not be kept in an enclosure that isn't fully ventilated, is that correct? would it not be possible to just have a mesh front? thanks for your help Karen, your my no1 chameleon guru!

kroakykaren · Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 7:40 pm Post subject:

I use a low wattage basking light along with a 10% UV they stay on for 12 hrs, at night the temps drop really low i have no heating at all in the utility room.
I think a mesh door and mesh roof would work no probs, and yes its very costly running loads of basking lights and UVs Crying or Very sad

i know!!!
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Stuart Marquis · Key Member Joined: 05 Mar 2006 Posts: 333

Karen, are those Terry Thatcher mesh cages?

Stuart

unbreakable · Key Member Joined: 03 Aug 2007 Posts: 212

that's handy to know about the heat lamps, do you do this with your panthers as well, if i could eradicate the heat lamps then there would be no end to my cham collection lol, its interesting to know other peoples husbandry techniques as i guess there is no exact science, we all do things a little differently. So if i were to use a screen cage like yours and just use a basking lamp and uvb then in reason it would be possible for me too keep merus.

kroakykaren · Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 9:10 pm Post subject:

kroakykaren · Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 9:12 pm Post subject: