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Old 08-29-2016, 11:07 AM  
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Default Re: Making the Falco Syrian appropriate

Considering you can make a DIY for around the same price as the Falco,that would be a much better choice in my opinion. Yes,it is more work,but there are a lot of things that are so much better about DIY cages.

You can customize it to have anything you want,be it more ventilation or less all the way up to something like a locking door or lid,where a storebought cage is only ever going to be what you buy.The Falco in particular is half the size of what you could build,and it costs just as much,so it really wouldn't be a good option anyways in the economic sense.

By the way,DIY is far less complex than it seems.Using the right materials does make it look much better,for example melamine gives it a nice modern and very clean look

Another thing about the Falco is you wouldn't likely get the full use out of the bottom section,you'd have substrate up to the ventilation grid and then a lot of hard to fill space due to it being a tank style bottom.However with DIY as mentioned you can really do anything you want,and could even have far better substrate depth.

Barney and Alexander type cages generally provide about 6 inches of substrate,which isn't really that great compared to what DIY cages and even tanks can hold.

Last edited by Fluffagrams; 08-29-2016 at 01:12 PM.
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