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Rehousing Big Spood

Big Spood finally has a new house!

The posts on this blog are buffered, meaning that - in order to maintain a regular posting schedule, I write my posts in advance and schedule them to drop at a later date. This means that while it appears that a lot of time has passed since getting him, I actually ordered his new house the day after he arrived, and then rehoused him the day after that. He was in the Braplast tub for three days, in total. That was three days too long really, as he really didn't have a lot of space in there, but I promise he wasn't in there for the weeks since my last mention of him.
In looking around for a reasonably priced enclosure, I happened upon this acrylic terrestrial enclosure on Amazon.
It was reasonably priced, and came with an inbuilt hygrometer and thermometer. It was just the right size for Big Spood, and ought to last him a little while. (I don't know why it shows a beardy on the image - it is definitely not large enough to keep a beardy in!) I am getting to be a dab hand at building these eacrylic flat pack enclosures, and in no time I had a lovely new setup for Big Spood.
Alas, I did not have a hide large enough to give him, so I have given him the transport tube that Diablo arrived in. In general, this species isn't much of a hider - they tend to laze about on display so they're a pretty decent species to have if you want something you can look at and watch. As such, while he will run away from me if I put my hand in the tank (and kick hairs!) he doesn't tend to use his hide.
I do think he looks happier with all this space though. And I like to be able to watch him pootle around, just being a spood.
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