Im looking for some mesh as per title, just for a vent or 3 on an enclosure. hardware shops ive asked werent much help?

something small enough to stop mice but also allow good air flow. fly screen mesh is ok but i want to try something else....

cheers

how much do you need?

scored some really fine stainless the other day

may be too small mesh size though

stainless is to flash for here :lol:

havent started the enclosure yet, may mesh sides out completely.

+ another enclosure, that gets to hot, may rip out fly screen mesh and redo vents...

the mesh out of my old hovabator incubator is what got me thinking.....but it seems to be hard to find in shops?

smallesy i have seen in the galv is 12mm square through wrightsons or RD1

fabric?

net curtian type stuff?

Garden centres for bird netting / wind-break kinda stuff? I have the green stretchy stuff covering my fish ponds outside.

really needs to be wire so crickets, mice and rats etc cant chew through it

I have used metal whitebait netting for a similar purpose---a lot cheaper then stainless steel. Available from your local fishing supply shop. There is some good stuff down here from China.

really needs to be wire so crickets, mice and rats etc cant chew through it

OOOooooooooohhhhhhhhhh sorry, i thought it was to keep mice in until theyre consumed :oops:

I brought a Sive, that you sive flour through (sp?) and cut it, $2 and the $2 shop!

Sneaky danilada. You can also buy larger flat sieve-like things used to cover frypans so fat doesn't spit everywhere.

how much do you need?

I find plastic canvas perfect. Craft stores sell it.

its like this

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Crafts/Other/auction-266037501.htm but you can buy it in about 20cm x 30cm squares at places like spotlight

Or there is a bloke on TM who sells massive rolls of it in either beige or brown.

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Home-living/Outdoor-garden-conservatory/Landscaping-materials/Fencing/auction-265653026.htm

We have a roll of the dark brown, once the partner has done his worst with it if we have some left I might put some up for sale by the metre here as I know people need it, it's excellent for moss walls and similar. Won't be for a few months though. He's using it to make quail housing

should mention, the stuff we got is about 2-3mm mesh, crafting plastic canvas is available in several grades and is generally whitey translucent

I have used metal whitebait netting for a similar purpose---a lot cheaper then stainless steel. Available from your local fishing supply shop. There is some good stuff down here from China.

sounds like the go will have to check that out

OOOooooooooohhhhhhhhhh sorry, i thought it was to keep mice in until theyre consumed :oops:

mice are just to smelly for my liking.

I brought a Sive, that you sive flour through (sp?) and cut it, $2 and the $2 shop!

ive looked in $2 shop, warehouse, briscoes etc but no sieves with big holes

the flat sieves/frypan splatter things are all fine mesh to i think and the plastic canvas looks good to but I really need wire or something thats atleast mouse proof.

have seen a rat or 2 here in the past but dogs dont seem to find them anymore :lol:

I get all my mesh from Mega mitre 10, its like the flyscreen mesh but aluminium, I get it in black as it is easy to see through, most people that keep natives use it as the innner mesh, costs around $10.00 a meter and are a meter wide.

Whay are you looking at keeping in it?

dunno whay :lol: smallish enclosure outside for my bd during the day. maybe vents on indoor setup etc

so for native's, just go flyscreen inside then just standard 12mm square netting on outside?

I have used metal whitebait netting for a similar purpose---a lot cheaper then stainless steel. Available from your local fishing supply shop. There is some good stuff down here from China.

pretty sure what Alan mentioned is going to be perfect

I think the whitebait mesh is the same or similiar, for natives use the aluminium mesh then 12mm on outside, I haven't seen any with the fibreglass style flyscreen mesh but would probably work.

I have my young beardies in an outside enclosure with mesh on 3 sides, they love the air flow and direct sun it allows.

sweet so outside you have which mesh?

I suppose fly screen is perfect. I just need bigger vents = more air flow

still im sure i could find a use for a 5mm mesh :lol:

im thinking of putting my young whistling tree frogs outside to.. . and i had a vision of a light in there at night and all these bugs flying in

5mm mesh should be about perfect as long as the frogs have enough size on them so they cant get through the mesh, i suppose not many moths will get in a 5mm hole either though...hmm

cone in the roof with a light over it

cool trying to picture it

how smalls the hole in bottom of cone and how far down past roof does it go?

so bugs just drop in cone?, or fan above light aswel