It’s been years since I’ve made any significant changes to my Gila room – some in part of there not being a real need and another part of good old fashioned laziness. But, after last year’s limited success and the driving need to do better and innovate (not to mention that my Neodesha NPI stackable cages were tilting ever forward like the Leaning Tower of Pisa) I got off my butt and went back to the drawing board.
Thinking of where my shortcomings have been (nesting, still), the fact that these stackable cages have shown those Achilles heel, and taking inspiration from my Gila Amigo John’s “Gila Hilton”, the design objective was to have cages stacked two high for stability, interconnected laterally for male-to-female interactions, and with a separate nest box attached to the female side to encourage nesting. The design went through a few drafts but ultimately it came out like this..
Goatsby's Place 