okay it's been a while since i gave an update for the shop um been doing the really cool series
that people seem to really like but time for an actual shop update and so for all the people who
are part of our patreon um you already know what i'm about to reveal because
you've seen snippets of this as it's been coming along um and quick plug if you guys
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the little stuff that i don't share with everybody else know what's gonna happen beforehand
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uh yada yada but without that being said we are now at the iguana cage as well as the redfoot
tortoise page um so before they were in a what i thought at the time a pretty big enclosure it was
like a big aluminum aviary that we outfitted with a bunch of plexiglass and insulating tarps to keep
the humidity and heat in um it was six feet by three feet by um it was because you know it was
like that barn style the height it was just over seven feet tall but there was a lot missing on the
sides because it does come down at that diagonal so this thing is much bigger this is eight feet
by four feet by seven and a half and it's a full rectangle so it's quite a bit of extra space
and so let's just come on and take a look at this this is obviously the door from the first
one because waste not one knot and all that jazz so because the store worked out pretty
well we just popped it off the other one and then what we'll use with the old one we'll quite see
these guys moved in here last night um we didn't i didn't record a video of us finishing off and
putting them in here yet because um they were already kind of cold and as they were warming
up they're getting pretty rambunctious and i didn't want them hurting themselves in their cage
in the holding tubs that we brought them in so this is the full cage and as you can see this
is after a day just so you know so i'm not i'm not hiding anything that covering thing this is
what it looks like after day which is why here's a perfect example of why iguanas and tortoises
aren't necessarily bad pets but they're a lot more high maintenance because this water needs to be
replaced sometimes multiple times a day so in here although i i don't know if i'm gonna go in here
i'm probably gonna get tail whip but so i'll just keep talking about this so as you can see all of
this paneling and everything is done with a white coat of marine paint so basically this is the
paint that people would put on the outside of like a canoe or a boat or something like that so that
way it's not really harmful once it's completely dried and it's very very water resistant and then
on the ground we have several layers of that on the ground plus a plastic underlay to prevent for
hopefully anything like that because this thing is uh pretty heavily built um and then here we
have a bunch of you know the treated a lot of the branches that were in the previous one we've added
a couple and then we have another platform here hi kaiju hi bb girl um they're all doing pretty well
um you can see our little rescue azulee queenie up top and then kaiju the rhino ghana so yeah just
so you know uh rhino rock iguanas they totally climb um we have at the top we have a big 160 watt
uh mercury vapor bulb so they get a lot of heat from the top as well as that nice uvb
with multiple platforms to pick where they want to go and they can crisscross around if they want
and then down below and this is also you can see why in the other cage i didn't put a whole lot
of artificial plants in here because they just destroy them um and then putting live plants
in here they also destroy those too they're uh they don't mean to be destructive again but they
are um and then for the tortoises and then on the ground i have a strip t8 uvb bulb plus a ceramic
heat emitter and then the ground is heated as well so this works very well um there i think they're
going to do a lot better they're going to be more comfortable in here moving forward um i might
still add a few things here and there might change up where these things are put around we'll see
i think these platforms will do well they're not they're plastic shelves so they shouldn't warp or
swell with like humidity and moisture and such but i think this looks
pretty good um you know it's not perfect it's what you know the diy stuff that we like to do in here
um hopefully this doesn't look too bad i know it's not as bright in here as i necessarily would like
and i might add maybe an additional uvb bulb or just another halogen bulb maybe something like
in that corner or over there probably that corner um just to brighten it up a little bit because
it kind of has just that like yellow hue from the mercury vapor um but i think these guys are doing
pretty well in here hopefully it's only been a full day but they seem to be doing really good
they're cruising around these guys have been very active because it's been nice and warm
it was kind of chilly at the house before we move down because we had to turn down
um the heat a little bit so it wasn't the ambient temps weren't quite as warm as they were used to
but they're doing a lot better i think although she's very upset at me because
we had we had it out this morning and so she's still pouting and sulking she's mad at me about
that but kaiju's actually been a lot better with me although if i sit there and do that she'll
probably just grab my finger so i'm not going to do that but we're working on these things
but anyway i just wanted to share really quick the iguana cage it's not a huge long video um
and as much as i thought it would be really cool to do like the work in progress video and like the
time lapse of us putting it all in here it just i don't know i have a hard time filming those sort
of things and i'm not a hundred percent convinced that everybody likes to build to watch those
maybe you guys do let me know down in the comments um i know like everybody else and their mom also
does like the builds like you know with bar check building his zoo and you know snake discovery
doing their stuff um but just wanted to show our little progression so you know now that we have so
much more space here actually i can actually stand all the way in here um there we go see
we're getting there oh it's okay it's okay i know that was really loud i apologize um but
yeah see we're getting there now that she's gotten some size on her she's a little more comfortable
okay that's all that's all i'll do um but yeah now that we have all this space we're not necessarily
going to add you know 100 new animals i would much rather expand all the cages and do better by them
and this is one that i absolutely wanted to get done number one because it would have been very
difficult to actually move and transport and reassemble the cage that they were in
and so because of that i went i want to get this better period and that's what we did hey what's up
but hopefully you guys enjoy this again if you have questions comments concerns let me know down
in the comments of this video check out my facebook instagram i don't really post these
guys nearly as much um but if you guys are ever interested or want to hear about that
i've talked a little bit about these guys before at some point i'll do a whole um
a whole species spotlight on the rhino iguanas um i've done one on those guys before too
but you know just sharing you guys with the updates and everything like that it's
not really a full shop update but again just being open with you guys and giving you updates
hope you're having a great day and we'll check you next time