Habitat - Indoor

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 10:02 pm **new basking box!!!**

YAY! My dad built me the coolest above tank basking box, and I spent today painting it and applying a background, and it's soooo cool! Napoleon so far hasn't spent much time up there, but he keeps climbing up and leaping off. The basking platform itself is a ceramic tile left over from my parents' fireplace, cut down to sit on the inner lip of the tank. I used his old floating dock as a ramp, which seems to be working. My dad built the box just big enough to fit all the way around the outside of the tank, then put in stops to hold it in place, so it's a lot more stable than if it was just sitting on top. The panel in front is plexiglass.

Me painting, Napoleon 'helping'

Reluctantly basking, obviously plunked there just for the photo

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 10:16 pm

thats really nice

its like how i want my turtles tank to be ...
i will work on it

great job

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 10:23 pm

Tha looks lovely. Napolean looks rather reproachful. :lol:

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 11:08 pm

That looks so great! I'm sure Napoleon will love it (eventually)

Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 8:58 am

That is the best basking box I have ever seen.Napoleon has it made

Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 11:56 am

Wow, your dad did a really nice job with that!

Looks great!

Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 12:54 pm

What a great basking box! I love how its footprint is bigger than the tanks - very stable and you don't have to worry about the ultra-precise sizing.

How do you feed him? Do you drop the food down the opening where the ramp is?

Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 1:14 pm

that looks fantastic!!!!!!

Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 5:26 pm

turboturtle8 wrote:That is the best basking box I have ever seen.Napoleon has it made

I dunno about that! I based my idea on what Breigh did, hers I think is pretty much the best!

Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 5:27 pm

SpotsMama wrote:What a great basking box! I love how its footprint is bigger than the tanks - very stable and you don't have to worry about the ultra-precise sizing.

How do you feed him? Do you drop the food down the opening where the ramp is?

Yup, there's a section of the tank that's still open air, so I just drop the food in like always!

Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 10:28 pm

YES! VOLUNTARY BASKING!

Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 2:27 am

Starchick wrote:YES! VOLUNTARY BASKING!

That's great to hear! I was going to suggest that both lamps be on the same side in case it wasn't warm enough to entice Napoleon but.. nevermind

Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 10:25 am

That is very creative, and they will love it.

Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 12:53 pm

A very nice job.

Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 4:00 pm

Wow that is awsome!!!! It looks like a 29 gal? Ill see if my dad could come up with something one day.... I am not good with projects like that at all lol....

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