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Originally Posted by JustineNYC
Hey, I have a question for you. I am building mine which is basically just like yours but am running into a problem....at the bottom where you have your hinges, is that silicone in your pic? I dont have hatchlings, but now that Ive put mine together Im afraid someone will push on the bottom acrylic and sneak out. Did you silicone the slit between the plexi and that ledge?
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Let me see if I can explain it good.
On the bottom of each door, I have 3 hinges. You do see silicone at the bottom but that is silicone that is attached to the dam to keep it in place. I didn't place any silicone between the slit of the plexi and viv ledge. When the door is closed, the acrylic bottom sits nearly flush against the floor. there's only enough space for a fingernail tip to slide in. Now my dam is spaced a bit away from the door to allow room for the nut and bolt. The space barely lets Alcy my 100g snake fit her head in the gap. It doesn't leave her any room to push against the acrylic to flare out the bottom between the hinges. Even if there was enough room for her to push, the acrylic wouldn't give her enough slack to slip out.
I'm not sure if your doors will end up the way mine did but if you think they'll be able to flare out the plexi between the hinges, I would just put a couple of those screen clips on the bottom between the hinges. Though, if your acrylic is 1/4in thick, i doubt that they'd be able to flare it if you used 3 hinges, maybe if you only used 2.
Here are 2 pictures to help with my explanation. The first is a closeup of the door closed. You can kind of make out the edge of the door next to the hinge.
Second picture is a close up of the door opened to show that there's no silicone other than on the dam. Hope this helped! =]