I'm building a new vivarium to house all three of the female Yemen chameleons that I acquired this year through various outlets hoping to bring them up to a breeding standard. For this and for the first time ever I'm trying out polycarbonate twinwall as a building material. This is the stuff the make housing market billboards and roof green houses with. It should be very strong yet very light, be able to stand up to the test of time, be water proof and very insulating. I'm hoping it provides the girls with a nice big forever home.
So it starts with a few sheets of polycarb bought at the local diy centre
Once cut to size I laid the sheets out just to make sure I had cut everything I needed (the jigsaw I used is really noisy so wanted to get that out of the way first).
After the first few panels are stuck together it was left to cure for 24 hours and held together with lots of very technical masking tape.
Note the back panel was made up of two linked panels:
A front strut was added anf the runner for the door was fixed in place:
Then the top supports were stuck and again the whole thing was left to cure for 24 hours:
Next the mesh is glued in for the roof:
All held in place with some amazingly helpful groceries:
The doors were added and have ventilation holes drilled along the bottom:
unfortunately I lost some of the making of photos but after much guess work and lots of .... "How are we gonna do this?" we got it finished and in place:
And here it is in pace next to the males tank for size comparison. Its one meter long by 2 feet deep by 3 feet tall and weighs about 10kg in total. Its lit with a mega ray 160watt UVB bulb and two daylight tubes that run front and back, Its got drainage and can be misted along with the other tank on this racking.
All three of our girls have moved in and are settling into their new home nicely.
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