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!
On a rare Sunday post, I wanted to share the story of my dad recently taking his first step into becoming a reptile keeper!
About this time a year ago our world was turned upside down. After a whirlwind of uncertain weeks in the ICU, surgeries, and hospital visits followed over the next 8 months he got to spend some time with our reptiles.
Now, he is no stranger to them; my parents were the champions of my love of reptiles and he grew up catching wild snakes in rural Texas as a boy. But he’d never kept a reptile in his life.
Stephen, me, and some close friends had the wonderful opportunity to begin his choice of builds recently in preparation for his new reptile!
Once we decide on when his new family member arrives we’ll get live plants and a clean-up crew added, but he is oh so proud of his new setup and that is the fundamental reason why we do this. Keeping reptiles is a whole experience!
Whether it be with your family, friends, or pets…take a moment to share some joy together.
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!
Stephen and I started this Focus Cubed Habitats journey in 2019 with the idea of bringing reptiles into the front room. After all, if the aquarium hobby could be so popular with beautiful aquascaped environments, why not work to do the same for our equally impressive and cherished reptiles and amphibians?
The breadth of habitats – from dry desert to chilly montane, to moist tropical – that reptiles inhabit inspires many keepers to create truly epic slices of nature within an enclosure. Our founding goal is to provide personalizable, design-savvy enclosures that equally represent and match the care and pride people put into keeping their animals.
Over the last year of working and discussing ideas with some of the greatest people in the reptile community from large-scale breeders to boutique keepers of obscure species, we’ve taken notes to create another revolutionary, or rather, evolutionary enclosure system – the EVO Series.
The tagline “Effective. Efficient. EVO.” succinctly sums up the EVO theory. Whereas our Custom Shop enclosure models give you the opportunity to customize PVC colors, hardware styles, add windows, and select from a variety of heating and lighting options for a wide variety of species, the EVO Series provides a simplified, purpose-built enclosure that offers what you need and nothing you don’t at an affordable price.
You asked and we listened – the EVO TwentyFour debuted March 6th of 2021 (and later in 2021 our EVO Thirty) as an answer to many arboreal snake keepers’ wishes and requests. The EVO TwentyFour model is built with 1/2 inch PVC, a shorter dual-plane substrate dam for easy perch removal, 1/8 CNC slotted vents for humidity retention, CNC machined perch mount holes for quick install, cord and probe slots as a standard, and a four-latch 1/4 polycarbonate door for superior temperature insulation. It can be purchased as a bare enclosure ready for your accessories, or with a variety of perches, a dimmable LED light, and/or radiant heat panel!
