Thank you for these links! I really like that second one. A note on the black "screw", at the end of the video, I showed an aluminum nail that I had cut that could also be used to lock the door of the enclosure.
No problem Sam, thanks for that last bit of info. @bryverine is the genius behind that thread.
Great video! These look pretty sweet!
Thanks! I already have 4 others. 2 baseball displace cases waiting for my B. Emilia and B. Smithi to grow up a little bit. I have my G. Pulchripes and my A. Geniculata in softball display cases. I thought that I was pretty smart to find these and come up with enclosures, then I came across your awesome build. I need to find a place to get those cool hinges.Great video! These look pretty sweet!
Go get the other sizes now and make some more!
You can also get these from Tap Plastics (might be higher in price, not sure) and many other online plastics makers (and there's MANY of them).
Got some and they are on their way!@CyclingSam
I ordered my hinges and hasps from mcmaster.com. I could have gotten them from a place in town, but they had a minimum order that I was well under. The most expensive part was shipping. They're less than a dollar for each though, so it's worth checking out.
This looks great, I've never liked the look of critter keepers, although I have quite a few, mainly used for breeding live food, but that looks good to me!As other people are saying, I use display cases from hobby lobby, and critter keepers stood up on their sides. I grab a piece of acrylic and a few hinges to make a swinging door for the critter keeper and display case. Drill some holes in it and you are good to go. An easy/cheap/fast way to get perfectly symmetrical holes is to use the top of a pepper,salt or or other spice container. They have circular holes in perfect rows that allow you to shake out pepper and spices. I took that off the container and used it as a stencil to mark my holes in the acrylic. Then all I had to do was drill where the marks were and I had a perfect, even set of holes. I prefer to use branches that I find outside and sterilize via boiling/baking for a while. I see a lot of other people use a single big slab of cork bark which is fine, but I like to have fun with angling and branching out the sticks and making my own designs. These are pictures of some I just finished this month. Its going to be for my 3" P. regalis that I'm getting this week. The other is probably going to be for a P. cambridgei. I had some leftover fake plants from my freshwater aquarium so I threw some of that in there as well for added decoration. Its a bit big for a 3" T, but regalis will grow into it pretty quick.
Spiderlings do fine in deli cups, candy jars, or small critter keepers. The first picture is a hobby lobby display case, the second is a critterkeeper modified.
