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Old 08-08-05, 05:47 PM   #1
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Need help with a new enclosure

ok so my female BCI is reaching her first birthday. So i want to get started on her adult cage. I currently rent a room out of another persons house so space is at a premium. I want to make something that will fit, be practical, and at the same time when i move out and buy my own house a couple years down the road, be a display peice in my living room so here is what i was thinking (try and stay with me cuz sometimes im not the best at communicating my ideas to others)

i want this to be a 3 part cage, with the snake enclosure its self being 6-6.5 L X 2 W X 2 H. the other two parts will sit below and abov the cage, and have similar dimensions, with only height possibly varying. i want the bottom of it to have 2 or 3 cupboards that open with shelves in them, and i want the top peice to be open shelves. The snake cage will open from the front via sliding glass or plexi glass doors.

I will be honest, i am not the most handy person aroudn which is why i am getting my father to help me with the construction and design of this unit.

Up until now i have only kept snakes in rubbermaids heated by human heat pads. I have had great success with this. But its time to step up. Now this is where you wonder people of the Ssnakess.com community come in. I need to know of any possible design flaws you could forsee in this unit, and help me out when it comes to figuring out how to proparly maintain husbandry of the snakes cage. I have read up and heard good things about Heat tape and am leaning towards that as a possible heat source. but am completely unaware of the best way to install and use it. Also i want a built in heat control device, and thermometers (but i think ican figure that one out).

so lets here some comments and suggestions as i want this to be a beautiful cage that will last many years.

I will post a computer sketch of what i invision the unit looking like the next time im at my Dads house.

Thanks for your time and comments

Ryan
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