(I know it's kinda long, please read the whole thing, it will only take a minute, I promise! 
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My family is moving soon, and we've been checking out lots of houses. There's a beautiful house in the neighborhood that we are interested in. The upstairs doesn't have enough rooms for me, my 2 sisters, and my parents, so I would be in the basement, seeing as I'm the wierd teenager. I loved the basement, it was huge and cozy, with my own bathroom and laundry room. The owner showed us the 'secret' crawlspace, the opening of which is concealed by a shutter similar to those on the front windows. He showed us inside, and it was roughly 15 x 15 feet, and about 5 feet tall. He said that there is dirt directly under the floor, which was only that fluffly pink stuff (cotton candy? lol)
So anyway, I got the inspiration to turn it into a lizard enclosure. My dad and I love big lizards, and we even used to have a savannah monitor. We've been trying to get a hold of a tegu, but we havent figured out how to house an adult. So the crawlspace is certainly big enough, and it didn't feel cold like I thought it would, so I guess it's just as insulated as the rest of the house. The opening was a 3' x 3' metal hatch thing, and I don't see any reason not to replace it with a window. But could it work? I don't know much about crawlspaces, so I don't know what could really go wrong, if anything. Actually, Im not even sure what crawlspaces are for, so if turning one into a lizard enclosure would screw up the house somehow, I wouldnt know. Obviously it would require some effort to make it work, and look good at the same time. Since it is a pretty dark place, no amount of UVB lights are going to be any substitute for good old natural sunshine. Believe me, any tegu of mine will probably be spending more time out of his cage than inside of it!
Well... Whatcha think?
)My family is moving soon, and we've been checking out lots of houses. There's a beautiful house in the neighborhood that we are interested in. The upstairs doesn't have enough rooms for me, my 2 sisters, and my parents, so I would be in the basement, seeing as I'm the wierd teenager. I loved the basement, it was huge and cozy, with my own bathroom and laundry room. The owner showed us the 'secret' crawlspace, the opening of which is concealed by a shutter similar to those on the front windows. He showed us inside, and it was roughly 15 x 15 feet, and about 5 feet tall. He said that there is dirt directly under the floor, which was only that fluffly pink stuff (cotton candy? lol)
So anyway, I got the inspiration to turn it into a lizard enclosure. My dad and I love big lizards, and we even used to have a savannah monitor. We've been trying to get a hold of a tegu, but we havent figured out how to house an adult. So the crawlspace is certainly big enough, and it didn't feel cold like I thought it would, so I guess it's just as insulated as the rest of the house. The opening was a 3' x 3' metal hatch thing, and I don't see any reason not to replace it with a window. But could it work? I don't know much about crawlspaces, so I don't know what could really go wrong, if anything. Actually, Im not even sure what crawlspaces are for, so if turning one into a lizard enclosure would screw up the house somehow, I wouldnt know. Obviously it would require some effort to make it work, and look good at the same time. Since it is a pretty dark place, no amount of UVB lights are going to be any substitute for good old natural sunshine. Believe me, any tegu of mine will probably be spending more time out of his cage than inside of it!
Well... Whatcha think?
