To those who have Exo Terra's.
- Thread starter Cmendel
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I just got one of the new style 12x12x12's and it's really nice. I guess the new one3s have a better seal at the bottom so they don't leak water which will be great when I need to flood the substrate for breeding.
By new style, I mean the single front door, I got the bare cage for only $40.....that's very reasonable IMO.
By new style, I mean the single front door, I got the bare cage for only $40.....that's very reasonable IMO.
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I've got a 12x12x18 that my avic seems to enjoy. I ended up replacing the screen and spline as there was not enough of either to keep the original in place.
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I keep my adult female arboreals in them...with some plants and soil.
They work really well, the spider seems to be comfortable...and I've been successful breeding them in them.
Chris
They work really well, the spider seems to be comfortable...and I've been successful breeding them in them.
Chris
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I love them. Wish I had more. They look great, are easy to maintain, easy to control humidity, short ones are great for terrestrials and the tall ones are great for aboreals. Right now I have geckos in my two tall ones and the two short ones I'm redecorating for some new T's that I'm waiting on to grow a little. Sometimes on craigslist you can find them for a great deal and any of the used ones I've gotten have been in like new condition. I'm considering buying a case directly from exoterra after tax money comes back.
Do you mean the regular plastic Kritter-Keeper style tanks? Or the glass ones with the double front doors and the screen lids? Either way, both are great. My friend has a few of the glass ones, and they are great quality, and would be perfect for geckos, frogs, and arboreal T's. Exo Terra plastic tanks are also great quality, and I use them exclusively. I have many, many Kritter Keepers of various sizes, and EVERY one of them has some sort of crack or break in them, usually around the upper lip area. NONE of my Exo Terras have broken. They are very high quality, and the only thing I dont like is that the smaller ones dont stack as well as the larger ones, due to the smaller ones having one handle on top and the larger ones having two. But they are still great, I highly recomend them. Definitely worth the price.
Sorry but I'm not really adding to your thread but I was just looking at the Exo-Terra and Zoo-Med at LLL.Reptile.com and there is a big difference in price. Exo-Terra http://lllreptile.com/store/catalog/reptile-supplies/reptile-cages-glass-and-screen/-/exo-terra-12-x-12-x-12-glass-terrarium/ Zoo-Med http://lllreptile.com/store/catalog/reptile-supplies/reptile-cages-glass-and-screen/-/zoo-med-small-naturalistic-terrarium/.
I see that the Exo-Terra has (2) Glass doors and Zoo-Med has (1) Glass door but what other differences are there? Thicker glass? Thicker screen?
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kritter keepers are not exoterra. The thread is about the glass exoterra tanks. I refer to the enclosures you're speaking of as faunariums but I believe that might be a specific brand name as well. I definitely prefer glass to acryllic or plastic enclosures. Easier to clean, more scratch resistant, and much more durable.
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"Kritter keeper" is often the generic term for any kind of small plastic cages regardless of brand/company.
Faunariums are a specific line of plastic cages produced by Exo-Terra. Faunariums come in several sizes for their talls and two sizes for the flats. Faunariums (flat) are not really all that great for tarantulas in that creative spiders can be capable of pushing the lids OFF since not all lids fit snugly and they do not have locking tabs on the lids to hold the two pieces together securely.
Exo-terra, however, has come out with a new line of plastic cages this year called breeder boxes. These are secure enough for tarantulas since they do have several locking tabs on the lid. They also have very convenient feeder windows on two sides of the cages so you don't have to unstack them from a shelf in order to open them from the top to feed the spiders like you do with other types of kritter keepers. The only downside is that right now breeder boxes come in two sizes and the larger of the two is still smaller than the smaller of the two flat style of faunarium. Breeder boxes are excellent for many juveniles spiders and smaller adult terrestrial species. Since the two sizes currently available on the breeder boxes are small and medium then conceivably in the future they will be coming out with a "large" which would make them good for some of the larger terrestrial species. Right now my opinion is that the medium breeder box is good for up to 4 inches of spider as long as you don't clutter it with too much decoration and such.
Also, faunariums, like most kritter keepers on the market, the sides of the cages have vents in addition to the lids so you really can't fill them up with a lot of dirt ... tarantulas that like to move dirt around would just push it out very easily and make a mess. The new breeder boxes only have vents in the lid so you can fill them up with a lot more dirt and not worry nearly as much about T's pushing dirt all over the place outside of the cage.
