Mesh screen or glass terrarium for whites

[zoiiy]

So... Cats happened. Broke my Exo terra glass terrarium housing 4 whites tree frogs. I'm thinking of getting the Exo terra mesh ones next to prevent that from happening. Washing off glass shards from your frog is no laughing matter. I prefer the glass ones as they like to stick to the sides. No issues with humidity and temperature here as it's in the tropics. Any opinions? I would love not to have one more broken, or worse, an injured frog, and yet still think glass is superior for frogs plus of course the better viewing. Please, any thoughts? Thank you!

[FantaTizer]

I personally think the glass is better for viewing and cleaning, mesh is a nightmare to clean poo from! But both are really nice set ups regardless

from Hannah

[elly]

Glass is probably better- the frogs love to climb, it keeps the humidity up, and so on. Is there any way you can cat-proof it? Make sure the table is big enough? Strap the thing down?

[zoiiy]

I still do prefer glass but I don't like glass shards on my frogs! Luckily it didn't seem to affect anyone, they were all sleeping like pigs when I found them. I suppose I can put them on the floor but then the viewing won't be as good. The entire table toppled with the terrarium so no point strapping it down?
How light is a screen one? May be a bit easier to topple if it's lighter than glass?? Also how messy will mesh be from
bedding being tossed out? Oh I don't have humidity issues. It's always about 80-90% ambient humidity anyway so I never need to do anything to keep it up.

[elly]

I don't think the bedding will fit through the mesh easily. And it might really be easier to topple.

Edit: Also too bad that happened, I know it must be scary picking glass off your frogs!

[zoiiy]

In the end I got back the same terrarium. Thanks guys!

[deniserothfus]

That's my nightmare I need to earthquake proof all of my tanks. I already cat proofed.

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[deniserothfus]

I have a 265 gallon screen reptarium on my porch for my dragon and he tends to hang on the screen at one end so I had to cat proof that bacause of my neighbors cat. I still can't leave him out there unattended because of what could happen I'm a worrier


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