wildheart
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Iguana Room – tunnel – outdoor jungle
My boy is now a year and 11 months and spoiled rotten. He is 100% part of our household – it took hours and hours each day since he was 5 days old but oh boy it is so worth it. He sometimes goes to work with me, goes with on holidays, help with the shopping and is a local at the sports club. He climbs on my lap/chest each night and watch tv until he falls a sleep and I carry him to bed at about 21:00.
I studied the book called the Green Iguana,The Ultimate Owner's Manual,Author: James W. Hatfield Iii and follow it to the best of my ability and always try and improve. This book says that if you keep an iguana in a cage with white/blank walls then it is a sentence to hell. For this reason I tried my best to copy his natural environment.
Forest has a room with a tunnel that leads to an outdoor cage. He uses the tunnel when we are at work but he roams free when I am home. Our South African houses are built with bricks and then plastered; therefore I do not have a problem with the high humidity affecting the rest of our house. Another plus point about SA is that we have lots and lots of sun.
It took my husband a month to paint the walls inside the room, a week to build the tunnel and another 2 weeks to build the outdoor cage. (Isn’t he just wonderful!)
We’ve replaced a big section of the door with plexi-glass so he can see us and we can see him.
The walls before we brought the things inside:
The netting against the ceiling is to create a feeling of tree tops. It hides all the wires for the lighting and protects the ceiling from the high humidity.
My boy is now a year and 11 months and spoiled rotten. He is 100% part of our household – it took hours and hours each day since he was 5 days old but oh boy it is so worth it. He sometimes goes to work with me, goes with on holidays, help with the shopping and is a local at the sports club. He climbs on my lap/chest each night and watch tv until he falls a sleep and I carry him to bed at about 21:00.
I studied the book called the Green Iguana,The Ultimate Owner's Manual,Author: James W. Hatfield Iii and follow it to the best of my ability and always try and improve. This book says that if you keep an iguana in a cage with white/blank walls then it is a sentence to hell. For this reason I tried my best to copy his natural environment.
Forest has a room with a tunnel that leads to an outdoor cage. He uses the tunnel when we are at work but he roams free when I am home. Our South African houses are built with bricks and then plastered; therefore I do not have a problem with the high humidity affecting the rest of our house. Another plus point about SA is that we have lots and lots of sun.
It took my husband a month to paint the walls inside the room, a week to build the tunnel and another 2 weeks to build the outdoor cage. (Isn’t he just wonderful!)
We’ve replaced a big section of the door with plexi-glass so he can see us and we can see him.
The walls before we brought the things inside:
The netting against the ceiling is to create a feeling of tree tops. It hides all the wires for the lighting and protects the ceiling from the high humidity.
