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Hello!
I've been throwing around ideas for an adult tegu cage and I've seen some pretty cool under the bed type enclosures. I was basically planning on making your typical 8x4x4 enclosure, except reinforced well enough to hold an XL twin sized bed and myself. I was going to also make some shelves/cubbies with the extra space on top (since an xl twin mattress is not nearly big enough to take up all that space).
The thing is, I have essentially no experience with building, so I'm a little worried I might make something that can't properly support everything it needs to. I really would like to make this easy on myself and just construct a normal cage without all the bed nonsense, trust me, but the fact of the matter is I don't have much space in my room to spare. :/
I was thinking of using 4"x4"s on the corners of the bed frame and two in the middle(front & back) for support with several 2"x4"s lying across the top platform. This may or may not be overkill, but I figured that's better than building a faulty structure. One of my biggest concerns is what to do with screws/bolts/etc. I was thinking of just using screws (I have no idea what kind) to hold everything together, but I don't know if that'll be enough considering what I want to do. I honestly don't know what I'm doing or if those would even be the types of materials I'd need. This will be my first time building anything larger than a birdhouse, so please excuse my ignorance! I'm trying to learn.
I was going for something something somewhat similar to this.
Also, I sadly have no tegu to share with you guys at the moment. I am planning on hopefully getting a hatchling this summer! I just want to be prepared and have this cage ready before then.
I've been throwing around ideas for an adult tegu cage and I've seen some pretty cool under the bed type enclosures. I was basically planning on making your typical 8x4x4 enclosure, except reinforced well enough to hold an XL twin sized bed and myself. I was going to also make some shelves/cubbies with the extra space on top (since an xl twin mattress is not nearly big enough to take up all that space).
The thing is, I have essentially no experience with building, so I'm a little worried I might make something that can't properly support everything it needs to. I really would like to make this easy on myself and just construct a normal cage without all the bed nonsense, trust me, but the fact of the matter is I don't have much space in my room to spare. :/
I was thinking of using 4"x4"s on the corners of the bed frame and two in the middle(front & back) for support with several 2"x4"s lying across the top platform. This may or may not be overkill, but I figured that's better than building a faulty structure. One of my biggest concerns is what to do with screws/bolts/etc. I was thinking of just using screws (I have no idea what kind) to hold everything together, but I don't know if that'll be enough considering what I want to do. I honestly don't know what I'm doing or if those would even be the types of materials I'd need. This will be my first time building anything larger than a birdhouse, so please excuse my ignorance! I'm trying to learn.
I was going for something something somewhat similar to this.
Also, I sadly have no tegu to share with you guys at the moment. I am planning on hopefully getting a hatchling this summer! I just want to be prepared and have this cage ready before then.
