How To Make Sliding Glass Doors For Reptile Cage

Reptile cages can have sliding glass doors lids that open at the top front opening doors double doors burrowing areas water areas large glass fronts all glass etc.

How to make sliding glass doors for reptile cage. This how to build reptile enclosures book outlines how to build a basic effective and easily built cage. When i tug on the doors a bit they open about an inch or 2. I am building a reptile enclosure it has a front opening of 3 x3. The vivarium is 160 x 50 x 80 cm in size and approximately 640 liters in volume 170.

I am thinking of using 1 4 acrylic sheets as the doors if you think glass would be better please let me know or another material. I would like to use the sliding door method for this opening. Then assemble the cage and construct a door in a spot that makes it easy for you to reach all the areas of the cage. Diy sliding door feature diy pet cages for rodents duration.

There are fours sliding doors two on each side. Doors glass versus plexiglass perspex this is a personal decision but i have decided that for terrestrial cages i prefer plexiglass either 3 16 or 1 4 on hinged cages and glass on sliding glass door cages. There are a multitude of variations. Hello i decided to build a custom reptile enclosure and i have completed it except for the swinging doors.

I have been looking around but can t seem to find a good sliding track. I can t figure out how to make them stay shut i have a latch and that keeps the two doors together but not fully closed. Larger cages and arboreal cages are still better made with glass due to both cost and the size of the doors clear area or other.