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Originally Posted by smy_749
If you cover the whole top with a custom fit glass top that doesn't allow moisture to escape....? Not advising that tanks are the best way to keep an animal, but covering the top sufficiently and sides for security....
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Sorry, not sold. Tanks can be used as a stop gap solution but need to be phased out completely as they are not designed to house reptiles.
WE always stress that lights need to be INSIDE of the enclosure to allow for maximum use of heat and to limit loss of both heat and humidity.
Also most top opening enclosures let all accumulated heat and humidity out when opened. Plus the vents on the hood of the lights speed up convection around the lights, accelerating humidity loss. Yes, you lose heat and humidity opening from the front but not nearly as much.
Most cover the top with plexi or tin foil and leave a round opening just bigger than the light, so where you need it the most you are losing heat, again, taking humidity with it.
Generally when you build an enclosure you will have ventilation around doors, windows, gaps here and there etc. So you do have air exchange and some limited ventilation, but not total loss of humidity.
My whole point of being here is to try and bring up these realities and get some conversation going. All the evidence is out there, we need to push NOW for progress and change or we are all going to lose our right to keep these animals. Things need to change, the status quo for keeping reptiles is torture. There is a better way and people are doing it, just not most people, so we need to take every opportunity to get the party started.
Most reptiles are housed in a manner where they are physically unable to breed! Imagine if you kept a dog or cat in conditions that didn't even allow them to breed, you'd go to jail.
This is not intended to reflect on any one person or the o.p, just trying to shake it up a bit.
Thanks.
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