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Joined: Jan 26, 2006 Posts: 165 Location: Ellisville, MS
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 7:39 pm Post subject: Starting Booger's New House
Hopefully the worst is behind me, and it will be smooth sailing from here. With all the pine tree roots it seems like it took forever to dig and if I never see a shovel again it'll be too soon!
Joined: Dec 18, 2007 Posts: 877 Location: Eddington, Maine
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 8:27 pm Post subject:
nice. so now what are you going to do? put down a concrete slab? walls and roof? like a building it self? _________________ 0.1.0 Colombian Tegu
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Joined: Jan 26, 2006 Posts: 165 Location: Ellisville, MS
Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 12:03 am Post subject:
I was thinking of getting 4 4'x8' fence panels and put them on top of a concrete slab, put the dirt back in, add some mulch, a palm or two, water, hide, etc. I'm gonna put some wider boards on the top of the fence so he can't climb out, and make a cover for when it rains. For a hide I was thinking about burying a plastic storage container with about an inch or two sticking out with a piece of black tubing going from the surface to the container underground so he could go underground to hide, and I could just dig it up and bring it inside during the winter. Weather and finances permitting, it should all be finished in a couple weeks.
Looks like a great start. I would have preferred to have built my enclosure like you are doing....but I already have huge, totally covered pens on concrete. May sound nice but it was actually more of a hassle. : ) How big is your enclosure going to be? How are you going to make a gate? I have 2 tortoise pens that I just step over the wall...fine for me but not for older family members.
Joined: Jan 26, 2006 Posts: 165 Location: Ellisville, MS
Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 12:45 pm Post subject:
I'm 6'2" and the fence will only be about 3' tall from the outside, so I'm not gonna put a gate...shouldn't take too much effort to get over that. Also don't want to take the chance that I might leave the gate open (which I'm sure would eventually happen), and give him the opportunity to meet the neighbor's great dane (which would probably end badly). When I'm done it's gonna be 8x8x4 with around a foot of loose dirt and mulch for him to dig in.
hmmmm....I don't have your height advantage. I have to put a block or small pallet on either side of the fence/wall I step over. : )
Looks like your Tegu is going to have a very nice house. I wish I had an area where I could build a cage and let mine dig in the ground. We have irrigation and most of my "high ground" is concrete because of the cats I used to have.
After seeing an upset tegu....I think your neighbors dog would be a bit hesitant to grab him. : )
Send more pics as you go along. Love to get ideas from what others do.
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looks great 
