3 cool DIY

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:41 pm

#1 This is a cave that I made by cutting tiles with a wet saw(acturally my dad did) and then siliconing them together, except for the roof which you can take of. I havne't acturaly tried it on the crabs, my leopard gecko is cuurently trying it out. The gecko loves the bask on top of the cave as well.

#2 this is a bowl you make buy cuutting off the very top of a coconut. You may want to caot the inside with a thin layer of silicone to prevent mold and help clean sticky foods off.

#3 This is a custom planting pot you can make your self buy cutting a coconut in half or by turning a cocohut upside down. You can bury in the soil, but I suspended mine in mid air by wedging it between to grapevine branches. I have a spider plant growing in it.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 1:06 pm

Neat! Might have to build one of those hides for my Hermies and Leo.

Is that sand you have in the Leo's tank though? You should use reptile carpet or coco fiber stuff like EE cause sand can cause impactions and kill them. :c Even things like Calci-Sand aren't digestible like they say it is. (And if you are calcium powdering their food they'll get enough calcium anyways.) I use reptile carpet in mine and his potty spot I place a folded paper towel for easy cleaning. ^^

http://homepage.mac.com/exoticdvm/repti ... um181.html

^ impacted Leopard Gecko. *WARNING* Very graphic! But a good point to show why you shouldn't use sand.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 7:51 pm

my gecko has been on sand for 4 years with out problem

Tremors · Post by **Tremors** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 7:44 pm

Nice DIYs! Actually, I have a piece of coconut shell just like that, because I bought one for my crabs and drained it...then I tried to split it with a hammer, but eventually I just picked it up and whacked it on the sidewalk until it split.

Kilimanjaro · Post by **Kilimanjaro** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 7:49 pm

Very cool DIYs! I like the ideas for the coconut. The hidey is especially cool. Too bad I'm not good with DIY's. I tried making a hidey out of a coconut, but I couldn't get all the white meat out and when I finally almost got it all out the shell cracked. Man was I angry!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 9:02 pm

I found that if you micrwave the coconut for 2 min the meat can be easily wegded off with a butter knife.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 11:55 pm

It looks very cool! I wish I had tools to do these kings of things.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 6:36 pm

You don't have to have expensive tools. when you buy the tile at Home depot you can have them cut the tile for you for free. And for the coconut I just dropped it on concrete and it cracked into four pieces, two of wich I used for the diy above and I threw away the other two