Hiya ive had my royal for about 4 months now and hes wicked! really inquisitive and loves to eat etc all the things i thought he wouldnt be.
At the minute i have him in a 12x12 exoterra terrarium that he came with but i want to get something more suitable as i dont think these are the best vivs for them really. And wondered if anyone knew if a 36" vivexotic viv would be to big? hes about 40cm long at the minute and i was going to fill it with 2 hides and quite a few fake plants on the floor and ceiling etc so it doesnt look all that big to him would be nice for him to have more of an area to explore and be happy in. any ideas welcome!
would a 24" be more suitable then or is that still to big? the measurents are: 587mm x 470mm x 525mm (LxDxH) basically i need a new one because this one really isnt suitable at all and i think thats the smallest they go really.
when hes full grown i have a toy box thats about 60" so will use that eventually.
cool will do! thanks for the advice! cant wait til he is big enough for a massive viv tho lol. he was quite shy for a long time and i wondered if it was to do with his viv but i think he had some damaged skin on his eyes and couldnt really see properly but since his shed his eyes have cleared up and now he loves it when i come home. played hide and seek with him yesterday and when he cant see me he comes all the way out of his hide to try and find me lol.
matty is right. a 36' viv would be way to big at the moment.
you could always buy the big viv and partition up to make it smaller then keep making it bigger as he grows.
If his eyes looked like they had damaged skin he could have had retained eye caps from his shed. wen he sheds next try checking the head of the shed to make sure the eye caps are there and not still attached.
i think i will go for the 24" viv then as i do have a bigger viv here for when hes ready. so yeah thanks for your help guys.
no he got caught up in some duct tape which had become loose on the side of the viv. it was holding my thermostat cable to the side and had come off because of the humidity and i found him in the middle of the night with his head caught so i eventually got it off and it had damaged his eye caps but hes just shed them now and theyre fine so at least i know they have come off this time lol. and i know not use duct tape again :( poor thing.
yeah i know its horrible to try and take it off. felt well sorry for him! it was lucky because i was asleep and i just heard a feint noise and thought id check on him and when i saw i nearly had a heart attack. he was quite shy for a while afterwards but i think hes forgotten about it now lol.
how did yours cope afterwards? did the tape come off easily or not?
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Posted - 21/01/2009 : 16:27:02
