Oh heck I didn’t think about the blue tack sticking to the glue! Hopefully that won’t happen as I only put the glue in the middle so it didn’t come out at the edges.
So this is a thankless job these platform legs. After taking just over 1mm off a leg it was just the right height to slide under the platform. But then once in place in the middle, it was too short! The cage base isn’t flat. Also the cage base is different levels of flatness at the front and back corners. So the length that’s right for one shelf isn’t any good for the other shelf. I do have one leg glueing on though, held in place with blue tack. If it comes to it I’ll just use the one shelf.
Platforms and cage bases definitely don’t mix well. When I looked again, shelves wouldn’t have been an option anyway as they would be too high up above the Perspex.
Apart from the platforms, it’s not really a major project. The house and shelter already had legs on and just needed longer thin dowels attaching. That’s easy as you have the flat height of the house to glue them to. And the Perspex just screws on. It’s just the platforms that are such a fiddle.
I know once all that substrate is in, they would stand up fine anyway - even if one leg was 1 or 2mm too short. But if using both of them I need them level and the same height. Which might not be possible with a cage base that isn’t flat in various places.
Platforms are only really for tanks where they work very well.
Probably would have been easier to just make some and screw legs in from the top where you want them.
. He already had 8 to 10” of bedding in the cage before. He had one tunnel from under his house to under a nearby shelter and that was it. And that wouldn’t be viewable from the front anyway.