Please help with viv brainstorm

[Sisuitl]

My husband really dislikes the look of the rack system, and all the glass tanks are getting excessive. He's given the ok for hatchling racks (thank goodness!) but he would like the adults "on display" in our living area with attractive, probably homemade, vivs.

I tried the search function (really I swear!) but didn't find much of what would be useful. Someone did make a reference to an issue of Reptiles magazine that had an article about how to convert an old dresser into a chameleon cage? Or something? I thought that would make an attractive wooden viv, and the drawer slots could be re-partioned for different corns. Does anyone have ideas for lighting that could be installed into the individual slots that would be burn proof for the corns? Or a way of keeping the corns from coming into contact with in-cage lighting? Also, does anybody know what issue that article was in? I can't find it anywhere.

Thanks for your time!

 

[RockinLizard]

Here is my cornsnake home...

This is my girl stretching out in her home....

This was simple to make. I went to a 2nd hand store, bought a china cabinet for $40. There's still a top part to this cabinet I haven't used. It had sliding wood doors on it. Took them off. Went to a hardware store and got some lexan cut the same size as the doors, and put that back in. Took out the drawers, took off the 'face', and fastened it back on the cabinet. The bamboo background is a bamboo blind I bought at walmart for $9, cut, and glued it in place. The fake plants are from Dollarama. I put in a ceramic light fixture with a flood, and wired it with a switched powercord. The 'hide' box is made from the wood from the drawers. The basket also came from Dollarama. (one of my fav herp stores..lol)

 

[logic]

RockinLizard...
Nice set up there...
I am planning to make something very similar to that for my little ones, once they out grow their 20 gal...

Do you find it difficult to regulate temp with such a large area...!?
After some research, this seems to be one of the drawbacks to having such a large areas from what I have heard/read...

 

[stuart]

When money is a bit more flush, I will be making a tutorial on how to build a viv. Ill be making a new corn viv and 1 or 2 hognose viv's. As to when that is, I couldnt really tell you. All depends on money

Here is a tank I made a long time ago, but it was a first tank, and was made more to a budget bill rather than a good looking tank build. My new one will be an all out viv and will look much better.
I will tell you one of the main things I would change about this tank, is putting wooden strips at the top and bottom, to stop the substrate falling out and getting stuck in the runners. Its a REAL pain.

Like I said, was build to a budget. The next viv will be sealed and have a 3d background to match. I should be a lot more aesthetically pleasing :cheers:

 

[Infinite]

Those are some really nice homemade vivs.

My corn is just in an old fish tank which is fine atm, and will be for another year or so, I've got to make a few modifications to the lid tho to add ventilation. I've got some alluminuim mesh (for fixing car bodywork) which i'm gonna use.

 

[RockinLizard]

With the flood lamp at one end, it is around 81 degrees, and 70 on the other end. I have several holes drilled in the back BTW for air flow.