New Cricket Station Build at Cornel’s World
A modular, multi-purpose insect station we built for daily shop use: two sizes of crickets, screened tops for airflow, storage below, and room to grow.
December 12, 2025
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Care guides in plain words, the builds we are proudest of, news from the shop, press, and what our customers say. Written to help you keep an animal well, not to sell you the most expensive option.
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New Custom Tortoise Enclosure Design with External Light Hood
A custom 6' x 3' x 2' tortoise enclosure with a matching stand and an external light hood, shipped to Kingston, Ontario, to keep heat and humidity stable and hide the cords.
December 12, 2025
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How to Convert a 4x2x2 Into an 8x2x2 PVC Enclosure: Complete Installation Guide
Step by step, with a rendering for each: how to turn a Cornel's World 4' x 2' x 2' PVC enclosure into a fully secured, properly aligned 8' x 2' x 2'.
December 11, 2025
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Ontario Customer Builds 4 Flat-Pack Enclosures: A Perfect Fit
Kayla in Ontario ordered four flat-packed enclosures, built them the night they arrived, and wrapped the insides in matte black vinyl. Here is her note.
December 10, 2025
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RESPONSIBLE REPTILE KEEPING - WE NEED YOU!
Why Cornel's World supports Responsible Reptile Keeping (RRK): reptile welfare, a better community, and the mental wellbeing that comes with keeping reptiles well.
December 2, 2025
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The Modular Advantage: How PVC Cages Grow With Your Reptile
Reptiles grow, and PVC cages can grow with them. How to join a second cage to your first, step by step, using a 3' x 2' x 2' boa enclosure as the example.
November 28, 2025
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Why Screen Tops Defeat the Purpose of PVC Cages – Cornel's World
PVC caging holds heat and humidity because it is enclosed. Cutting in a screen top throws that away. Here is why we keep tops solid, and when a small screen section makes sense.
November 28, 2025
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Small PVC Incubator Review by Jaffy's Exotics
Jaffy's Exotics reviewed our small PVC reptile incubator back in 2022. The thermostat inside has changed since, from the Herpstat Intro+ to the Herpstat 1. The build hasn't.
November 21, 2025
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Rustic Bar Build from Scaled (Animal Planet)
The Rustic Bar Build from Scaled on Animal Planet: barn wood from Greg's family farm, a working keg and tap, an acrylic snake in the bar top, and a home for painted agamas.
November 21, 2025
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The Wild Ride Behind Scaled: How a Backyard Idea Became a Global Animal Planet Series
From a joke over drinks in 2017 to 10 episodes on Animal Planet, aired in just under 200 countries: the story of how Scaled was born and what it meant for Cornel's World.
November 15, 2025
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Bittenbender Basement Bar meets the Australian Outback
A carpet python enclosure built as the centrepiece of a basement bar: Zoopoxy outback rockwork, a furniture-grade stained stand with signage, and Herpstat control.
November 14, 2025
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Jurassic Jake’s Terrarium Build: A Road Trip, a Stanley Cup, and a Chameleon Named Stanley
The story behind Jurassic Jake's terrarium: a panther chameleon home for Brad Stuart's son, a mini Stanley Cup, and a 60-hour road trip to California and back.
November 12, 2025
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Choosing the Right Substrate for Your Reptile (or Amphibian/Invertebrate)
The substrates we recommend by setup: desert species, humid snakes, colubrids, tropical and arboreal, amphibians, invertebrates, and bioactive enclosures.
November 4, 2025