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Converting a shed into a vivarium

Seanf999 · 2019-05-10 20:23:55

Okay, this might be as stupid as it sounds.. I'm looking at buying a lizard, I love monitor lizards so that's what I'm aiming towards (Ackie, Peach Throat), but I want to own a number of reptiles as time goes by. Monitors grow big and my bedroom is small, my parents won't let me have one in the house outside of my room. We…

10-05-2019 9:23pm

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Seanf999

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Okay, this might be as stupid as it sounds..

I'm looking at buying a lizard, I love monitor lizards so that's what I'm aiming towards (Ackie, Peach Throat), but I want to own a number of reptiles as time goes by.

Monitors grow big and my bedroom is small, my parents won't let me have one in the house outside of my room.

We have a decent sized wooden shed, it's 11ft x 7ft x 7ft roughly.

My plan would be to power out to the shed and cover it with piping.
I'd also want to cover the place in insulation.. I'd basically make the actual enclosure smaller and have a good helping of insulation around the plywood walls.
I'd have a couple of different heat lamps, so one side would be very hot (as needed) for basking and the other would be to just ensure the enclosure is the right temp in the rest of the viv.

It'll probably cost me alright but I think it could work.

I'm working myself but I'll have the time to put into it and the time for the reptiles when they arrive.

Does this sound somewhat reasonable?
Is there anything glaringly obvious that my dense self is missing out on?

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