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Mesh or glass terrarium?

Open Air or Glass?

  • Open Air

    Votes: 1 6.3%

  • Glass

    Votes: 15 93.8%
  • Total voters
    16
TrpnBils

TrpnBils

22 is not enough snakes
hey guys, won a photography contest at www.zenreptiles.com earlier in the week and I get my choice of an ExoTerra glass or open air terrarium. I'm not really sure which I want, so I'd like to get some opinions. I'm not necessarily restricting this to be a snake cage either.

What can be kept in an open air mesh terrarium...just chameleons? I'm leaning towards the glass one because I'd like to get back into amphibians for awhile, but I'm still curious as to what I could put in a mesh cage.

What would you do?
 
I think a chameleon needs more humidity then an open air provides. BUt for any reptile, I prefer glass. Congratulations on your win! :cheers:
 
Actually, Old World chams are best suited in an open air environment. I've also seen small monitors, day geckos, frilled dragons, collared lizards, and even the occasional crestie and beardie (though I prefer to keep my beardies in glass) in an open air enclosure.

I didn't vote in the poll, however. It's your call, and it depends on what you want your next herp to be.

Congrats on winning the photo contest. Care to post the entry here?

regards,
jazz
 
jazzgeek said:
Actually, Old World chams are best suited in an open air environment. I've also seen small monitors, day geckos, frilled dragons, collared lizards, and even the occasional crestie and beardie (though I prefer to keep my beardies in glass) in an open air enclosure.

I didn't vote in the poll, however. It's your call, and it depends on what you want your next herp to be.

Congrats on winning the photo contest. Care to post the entry here?

regards,
jazz
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That's how we keep our chameleons at work when they're off exhibit too. That got me thinking though, I haven't really seen anything other than chams in the open air enclosures.

I think I might stick with glass too. The site has a 12x12x12 and a 12x12x18 for sale, so I'm assuming I'm getting the smaller one. Either way, it's a good size for a treefrog or two and I think I might give that a shot. And jazz, here's my photo - an E. Spotted newt

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That photo is amazing!!! As far as what to get... Don't know without knowing what animal is going in it. :shrugs: Congrats on winning the contest.
 
I would go for the glass. Those Exo-Terra terrariums are perfect for keeping a couple of tree frogs. We have the dumpy in a 12x12x12 and a couple of clown frogs in a 12x12x18. It keeps humidity very well and has nothes where you can run your wires through. We have waterfalls in both of them and they actually look really nice too.
 
lefty_mussolini said:
As far as what to get... Don't know without knowing what animal is going in it. :shrugs:
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That's dependant on which cage I get...lol

Either way, It'll be awhile before I fill it because I'm in the process of moving and starting my student teaching all within the next week, so I won't have any time to research a new animal for a couple of months.
 
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