BP's Cages

[Tarentola]

What do you guys use for cages,substrate ect.?

[munchy]

i currently only keep one BP and ive got him in a glass 40 g breeder tank, but soon hell be in this... http://www.ssnakess.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=44297

[elevation24]

I use Sterilite containers for cages and either paper towels, newspaper, or aspen for bedding.

[CDN-Cresties]

Rubbermaid and newspaper/paper towel.

[Tarentola]

im using a 50g and use pine shavings(not a strong scent though)

[Tim_Cranwill]

50g tanks are great... for fish.

Pine shavings are great.... for mice.

You need to cater to the snake's needs, not make it cater to yours. Tanks "can" work for ball pythons, though a 50g seems REALLY big to me... even for an adult female. I wouldn’t keep a BP in a tank though.

If you want to use a natural looking substrate, I would recommend aspen or bark mulch. Pine is nice and cheap but it's not ideal for keeping reptiles on.

Let me know if you want some bulk aspen. I can get it at a really good price. :)

[sapphire_moon]

it doesn't matter if it "doesn't have a strong smell" pine has OILS in it which can get in the BP's lungs.

Aspen, repti-bark, cypress mulch, news paper, paper towels, repti-carpet, even towels are better than pine (or cedar).


I personally have a sterilite container I use for my snakes, it's 34x16x6 (lwd).
I use newspaper for substrate.

[Smulkin]

I was always under the impression the oils in Pine and Cedar are toxic to BP's? We've got glass and tupperware setups at this point - glass mostly for quarantine and monitoring - usually just 10gals for incoming younglings. Substrate ranges from Aspen (what the wife uses at any rate) Forest Bark, "plastigrass" carpet and even newsprint (a godsend when dealing with mites) or paper towels (used for recovery and when we've got to apply antibiotic cream). So long as you can keep humidity where it needs to be without stagnating the air and the substrate isn't toxic or potentially harmful when ingested.

Low maintenance and cost-effectiveness start to play a role when collection size increases - just depends on what you are willing to invest in terms of dinero and time. Huge glass IS a royal pain simply from a weight standpoint when you go to do a thorough cleaning though. We had a 55 gal donated recently and it wound up hosting . . you guessed it - rats.

[snakehunter]

'maid and aspen

[Tarentola]

Ya I would really appreciated it if you could find aspen in bulk for cheap.........................thanks

[Smulkin]

Search engines are your friend.

http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=%22aspen+bedding%22

[justinO]

some of my smaller ball pythons are in rubbermaids, one is in a tank, and all the bigger ones are in malimine enclosures with sliding glass fronts.

substrate is paper towels for rubbermaids, towels for enclosures..... towels have been great for clean up, but smelly to wash!

I have my pine snake in aspen, cuz she seems to like it better & burrows in it.

Jessy
:)