New Cage being built for my Argentine Boa

Dubhead23 · 10-20-04, 12:03 PM

Here's the old cage with her in it...

Here's the new one just starting to take shape...

thunder · 10-20-04, 12:12 PM

what a beautiful girl! i have a male argentine, and i just adore him. arent they the greatest?!

Dubhead23 · 10-20-04, 04:35 PM

She's great... I take her out of her cage almost every day so she's always used to being handled. She almost waits for me to take her out in the evening. I take her with me to meet with the car club and to car shows once in a while.

Here's a better picture of her close up:

thunder · 10-20-04, 09:37 PM

she's very nice. do u know who produced her?

Jeff_Favelle · 10-21-04, 01:33 AM

Awesome!

But you'd do better (the snake would do better) with more floorspace than height. Lots of unusable space by looking at those pieces of wood.

Dubhead23 · 10-21-04, 06:10 AM

I got her from a military family here last year because they had orders to England and they couldn't take her with them. I have no idea who produced her but hopefully after I get this cage done I will find a male so I can start breeding her.

My Boa is a climber so I want lots of climbing space rather than just a huge floor and no climbing room.

I'll post more as I get more done this weekend!!!

CARLiTO_ · 10-21-04, 06:58 AM

what size of enclosure is that? 50 gallon?

hooter · 10-21-04, 08:03 AM

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Originally posted by CARLiTO_
what size of enclosure is that? 50 gallon?

The glass aquarium looks to be a 75gal to me

Dubhead23 · 10-21-04, 08:42 AM

The glass aquarium is 36" x 18" x 18". I think it's a 55 gallon. I don't remember what it is... I bought it last year when I got her.

It's way too small for her...

The new enclosure is 6' wide x 2' deep x 4' tall... that should be plenty of room for her. The floor is going to be tile with underfloor heat pads and 2 ceramic heat lampsfrom above should be ebough to keep her warm. My apartment stays at 80F all the time so I just need to warm it up a little bit durring the day.

Dubhead23 · 10-24-04, 12:04 AM

Here's what I did today...

wizbit13 · 10-24-04, 12:57 PM

Hey looking good. Hurry up and finish it so we can see it in all its glory!!!

Adam

munchy · 10-24-04, 11:16 PM

thats a real nice snake. the enclosure looks like its gonna be nice too. what did you seal the wood with?

munchy · 10-24-04, 11:17 PM

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Originally posted by Dubhead23
I take her with me to meet with the car club and to car shows once in a while.

what are you rolling? and what club?

Dubhead23 · 10-25-04, 06:11 AM

I roll in a 95 Fazda Probe... well it's supposed to be a Ford but with the Japanese Mazda engine and tranny with an LSD it's not just a Ford Probe anymore... I took her with me to Dallas last night to meet up with the car club there and she was great... everybody thought it was awesome to get a chance to hold her.

Oh... I sealed the wood with an oil based Polyurethane!!! So far it's turning out great!!!

the reason why it's taking me so long is because I had to work 12 hour shifts 5 days last week and then 12 hours again this week... hopefully we'll be don't with them so I can finish this cage.

Dubhead23 · 10-31-04, 03:16 PM

I'm building the cave and waterfall/pond and I've run out of Quickcrete Water Stop Cement so I need to run to the store here in a few.

Here's the beginning...

Here's the cement drying...

And here's what the whole cage looks like right now...