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Post by tanzanyte on Feb 14, 2021 13:34:47 GMT -8
Thanks Mark, that's super helpful. I'm going to see if I can get a shallow one from the same seller which will hopefully be fine for them to get in and out, and still ok to put sand in without it going everywhere. I just need to double check the size.
The video of Blake waiting is so funny, you can see the come on, come on expression, and the olympic start is hilarious. I'm glad Avon is warming to it more. I still don't trust the boys to leave the tube up permanently so they instantly appear the moment they hear me with the tube in the morning. Our baby girls are starting to become the same and I only started putting them out in the play area 5 days ago. Such impatience, but at least we know they enjoy what we have to offer.
I almost forgot, have you got any wood in there or is it just rocks? I asked at our local pet shop/garden centre about some of the wood they had there but most was treated for fish tanks so I'm not sure what type to buy.
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Post by Markpd on Feb 14, 2021 14:41:54 GMT -8
Yea Blake is a funny and sweet character, and it's funny and cool how eager he is for it . Would be cool to see a video of your boys and girls waiting for their time out And yes I have a branch of grapevine in there, which Blake loved to chew early on, not so much now strangely, perhaps because he's rounded of any edges now? I'd like to add more things in there, maybe something to climb on, but I can't think what atm!
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Post by Markpd on Dec 21, 2021 13:03:55 GMT -8
A little update for this on an issue I hadn't addressed previously. I finally got around to making something to protect the ends of the tubes (I have a 2nd one going to their new tank, which is being used as a temporary play pen atm). It suddenly occurred to me that I could make protective metal rings out of old aluminium registration plates we throw out at work occasionally (traded in cars get our plates fitted to them). This turned out to be the perfect material! I cut them into 2 narrow strips (after a practice run), bent each one in 1/2 along the length, then made cuts every ~1cm along one half, bent the newly formed tabs over to within a few mm of the other side, then bent the whole strip into a circle, and after lots of filing the edges off (tedious!), I had the ideal tube protectors. Originally I was wondering how I could hold them onto the tubes, but it turned out that crimping the tabs onto the tube ends was plenty strong enough! (if that made no sense, hopefully the photo will). Tubes now protected, much to Blake's chagrin! He took out his frustration on the wooden bendy bridge it sits on! Fine by me!
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