Ventilation of Plastic Tubs

[TWGarland]

Well i just bought a platic tub to keep my corn (a yearling) in over the christmas holidays, as its a complete mission to get the vivarium home in the car.

The tub is 34 centimetres in length, 28 in width and 17 centimetres in height.

My question is how to ventilate, and control humidity in my tub. Hopefully, pictured below is my ventilation/tub so far (still not finished) it has a cd in the picture for scale. There are 17 holes on each side, each about 2 mm in diameter. Is that enough, or will it be too humide?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated thankyou.

 

[Paradox]

As long as you drilled the holes from the inside out (So there are no sharp bits inside the box) I'd imagine that will be fine...

 

[Blue Apple Herps]

It should be enough. Give it a try. If it's too humid then drill some more holes.

 

[TWGarland]

Yep from the inside out, so no ruff bits, i used a lighter and a smal drill peice to make the holes though! :flames:

 

[TWGarland]

Any other opinions on if this is enough ventilation?

 

[Blue Apple Herps]

Yep from the inside out, so no ruff bits, i used a lighter and a smal drill peice to make the holes though! :flames:

In the future, the thing that I have found that works best to "drill" holes on plastic tubs is a slodering iron. Just heat it up and let it melt holes. Goes through like butter and gives a nice smooth edge.

 

[TWGarland]

thanks for the advice, hopefully i'll have to make a few more of these tubs, when i've saved up my pennies for more snakes!

 

[MegF.]

It just depends upon where you live. You might need to make more. What I would suggest is that you set it up just like what you'd have the animal in with water etc. Place it on the heat pad and see if you get condensation or fog. If so, drill some more holes. It's always best to get the setup going and stabilized before you place your new animal.