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12-25-12, 05:50 PM
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Ornate monitor enclosure updgrade
So here are the pics of the new enclosure for my ornate.
Since I posted a month ago he has grown from 15 to 18 inches. He now makes burrows, eats better ( one mouse/ day not including crickets, worms, and sometimes cut up raw fish). The enclosure is 6x 4x 3 filled with Florida soil covered with leaf litter. He is less skittish and takes food from tongs easily.
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12-25-12, 05:52 PM
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Re: Ornate monitor enclosure updgrade
More detailed shots/ I don't know why they are uploading sideways, they were not taken that way.
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12-25-12, 05:54 PM
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Re: Ornate monitor enclosure updgrade
Other side
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12-25-12, 06:16 PM
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Re: Ornate monitor enclosure updgrade
is that a mesh top?
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12-25-12, 06:19 PM
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Re: Ornate monitor enclosure updgrade
That's a little (a lot) small.
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12-25-12, 06:20 PM
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Re: Ornate monitor enclosure updgrade
Oh noo, the mesh separates the lights from the rest of enclosure, it is all treated wood with plexiglass doors.
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12-25-12, 06:24 PM
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Re: Ornate monitor enclosure updgrade
Well I know this is not going to fit his adult size. I already bought it a year go and it stood empty, so I'm using it for now. I think I got 6-8 months to convince my wife why I need to convert a third of the garage into a lizard enclosure.
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12-25-12, 06:28 PM
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Re: Ornate monitor enclosure updgrade
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Well I know this is not going to fit his adult size. I already bought it a year go and it stood empty, so I'm using it for now. I think I got 6-8 months to convince my wife why I need to convert a third of the garage into a lizard enclosure.
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Monitors grow QUICK you dont have 6-8 months if you are feeding/heating correctly.
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12-25-12, 06:36 PM
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Re: Ornate monitor enclosure updgrade
I did not know they grow fast, wow thats the first i've heard of that. I take it all of you built a 15x10x8 enclosures for your baby monitors right from the bat.
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12-25-12, 06:48 PM
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Re: Ornate monitor enclosure updgrade
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I did not know they grow fast, wow thats the first i've heard of that. I take it all of you built a 15x10x8 enclosures for your baby monitors right from the bat.
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15 sounds a bit excessive IMO
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12-25-12, 06:48 PM
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Re: Ornate monitor enclosure updgrade
10x5x7, and its a "grow up" tank. Kudo's your setup is better then it was, but dino is right, you have maybe 3-4 months tops with that setup.
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12-25-12, 07:41 PM
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Re: Ornate monitor enclosure updgrade
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15 sounds a bit excessive IMO
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There is no such thing as excessive for a monitor.. LOL
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12-25-12, 08:01 PM
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Re: Ornate monitor enclosure updgrade
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There is no such thing as excessive for a monitor.. LOL
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True i suppose.
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12-25-12, 09:38 PM
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Re: Ornate monitor enclosure updgrade
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I did not know they grow fast, wow thats the first i've heard of that. I take it all of you built a 15x10x8 enclosures for your baby monitors right from the bat.
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I put my babies in an adult enclosure the day they arrived. 
No regrets at all, they have been growing an inch a week.
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12-25-12, 10:53 PM
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Re: Ornate monitor enclosure updgrade
I wish I had my enclouser build for my sav when I got him. I had him in a 6x2x2 for 3 months and he out grew that fast! After I moved him into his adult home he had a huge growth spurt.
Not to nit-pick or anything, but is that a fresh pine log in there? Fresh pine has oils in it that can be very harmful to reptiles health.
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