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Seven 2' x 2' x 2' plant-only glass cubes for the Shiekh Shoes entrance in downtown San Francisco, built to support Nike's Move to Zero, with plants by Rhizome Urban Gardens.
February 13, 2026
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
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
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
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
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
We designed and built 21 custom PVC cages for the Kentucky Reptile Zoo, one of the world's largest venomous collections, with back access, ReptiRad heat, and Arcadia UVB.
April 20, 2025
In 2021 we turned a blue-tailed monitor's bare glass tank in Drumheller into a built-in Zoopoxy rock habitat, with Arcadia lighting, Deep Heat Projectors, and MistKing misting.
June 11, 2021
A student-run wildlife museum in Petaluma, California, needed museum-grade reptile displays. It became our first large institutional build: viewing from the front, servicing from the back.
March 22, 2016
