Podcasts are an excellent way to keep up-to-date on what is going on in herpetoculture!
We’re all about supporting the community and very much appreciate the following podcasts having Stephen and I at Focus Cubed Habitats on to chat about enclosures, reptiles, and life! Huge thanks to Trap Talk Reptile Podcast, Mutation Creation Canada, Modern Medusa Podcast, The Reptile Gumbo Podcast, GTP Keeper Radio, Big Reptile Talk, Chondro Bar Room, The Herpetoculture Network, and Corallus Radio!
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AND BONUS VLOG EPISODE – Ever wonder what it is like hanging around the Focus Cubed Habitats shop and home? Well… here is a small 24-hour window where we shoot for the USARK channel takeover video, receive our super dwarf retic from Reach Out Teptiles, finish packing 30 enclosures, pick up and unload a pallet of PVC, and head to the airport to welcome my mom for the weekend!
We built our first prototype C3 3x2x2 months ago, with the original idea behind it formed years back. Finally, technology and material availability met for an amazing match in these fresh builds for the one and only Bill Stegall of @phoenix.reptiles
To start, the first upgrade that catches your eye is the HDPE wood grain front. These two HDPE pieces are both aesthetic and structural components. While they look great they also provide support for sliding tracks to accommodate 1/4″ tempered polished glass. Similar to musical instrument neck construction, the sliding bases feature multi-component assembly utilizing both wood-look HDPE and a 1/2″ PVC backing plate. Not only do they look phenomenally clean, but they’re also incredibly rigid.
To further accent these pieces we added a recessed, floating, frosted Focus Cubed logo encapsulated by a bolt-on viewing window. While being ridiculously cool, this unique component pays homage to the next generation of enclosure ventilation.
Mounted in the upper rear wall (cool side) of these enclosures is one variable speed fan. This fan allows for airflow on demand by pulling outside ambient air through the bypassing front doors across the cool side/hotside transition. There is a second probe cord cover located next to the fan where a hygrometer/thermometer probe can be mounted to monitor or automate internal conditions.
Along with these wicked upgrades, you can see some of our favorites like the dual ceiling mounted PlantClamps, 15/20/20mm carbon fiber perch combo resting on HDPE mounts, 32″ LED with cord cover, and 80-watt heat panel. This unit even features a thermostat probe guide with an adjacent thermostat probe cover to allow for probe installation/removal without the need to pull apart any walls or roof panels and no drilling of any access holes.
Get a closer look and video walkthrough with this C3’s Enclosure Talk on the Focus Cubed Habitats YouTube channel, link in Stories. Also, keep an eye out for MJ’s vlog of our delivery to Bill’s place & our very own Making Of vlog!
Moving right along with our NARBC weekend model release recap – meet the Yin & Yang C2 Slider 2x2x2 build!
Stephen tossed around several ideas for these two foot Sliders and landed on the concept of Yin and Yang – the matching opposites. The first C2 features a red front and holographic logo with the gray build featuring a chrome red logo.
Each of these matching opposite builds has a variable speed fan like the ones we included in the sister C3 Sliders featured in our post yesterday. This fan allows for airflow on demand by pulling outside ambient air through the bypassing front doors across the cool side/hotside transition. Also included is a second probe cord cover located next to the fan where a hygrometer/thermometer probe can be mounted to monitor or automate internal airflow and humidity.
Continuing with the tradition, each C2 is optioned with dual ceiling mounted PlantClamps, 12/15/20mm carbon fiber perch combo resting on HDPE mounts, 22″ LED, and 40-watt heat panel. Some very cool design ideas Stephen machined into these are the thermostat probe guide with an adjacent thermostat probe cover to allow for probe installation/removal without the need to pull apart any walls or roof panels and no drilling of any access holes.
Get a closer look and video walk through with these C2’s Enclosure Talk on the Focus Cubed Habitats YouTube channel.
What can we say, we’re incredibly excited to share our KINOVA Special Projects reptile room Focus Cubed Habitats enclosure build and two-day journey with you! Few people know it, but my first snakes were pied ball pythons and the little girl inside had a dream come true working with and visiting KINOVA.
Follow along with us as we unload the materials, machine, build, pack, and travel cross-country to deliver to one of the premier reptile breeding facilities in the Nation. Stephen and I drove straight through the night from Texas to Georgia, met with the amazing Summer, Justin, and crew, unloaded enclosures, and then headed BACK to Texas for another overnight drive to pick up our pups from boarding. Intense – that’s how we do it here at Focus Cubed Habitats!
Also do us a favor and go check out KINOVA’s Hetflix Episode 176 of their Special Projects room update, subscribe to their channel, and show your support to the KINOVA team!
MJ, who you might know from the Snake Trap Sessions Podcast, recently got his new arboreal snake setup up and running. A total of twelve Arcade 3x2x2 enclosures house some of his amazing emerald tree boas. Check out his whole release vlog for all the details!
Huge shout out to @whoosgeckos for the glowing review! Love to see fellow passionate keepers appreciate quality! Check out his walkthrough video and give him a follow while you’re at it 🙂
If you haven’t visited and liked the Rattlesnake Conservancy and the important things they’re doing, go on over to their website to check it out: https://www.savethebuzztails.org/
We had a wonderful time helping support the cause for their Get Buzzed For Buzztails 2021 event in May with this one-of-a-kind Ratio 4x2x2!
