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This homemade snake cage is about 4 feet long x 2 feet wide x 18 inches high. It is good cage for these smaller boas, but I've at other times used it to house Rainbow boas and Ball (Royal) pythons.
It is shown here with newspaper substrate, a piece of dry deck tile under a ceramic water dish, a decorative "hot" rock that is slightly warm, a washed out cow skull for fun and an oversized hide-box. You can't see it, but inside the hide box there is a smaller box that they can get into or on top of, or just squish in between the box and the hide.
This cage was fairly simple to construct. It starts with a 2' x 4' slab of 3/4" plywood. A 2' x 4' sheet of Formica goes on top of the plywood. The sides are 18" high pieces of 1/4" thick glass, of the appropriate lengths to form a box on top of the formica. Use aquarium sealant (silicon) to seal the pieces of glass together, and to seal them to the floor.
Get it up off the floor by adding 4 short pieces (about 4" to 6" long) of two x four boards. Put one piece corner, under the floor, so the base is lifted 2" off the ground. Add four decorative strips of wood around the base to hide the glass-floor seam and the two x four feet. Mine was cut with beveled edges so the ends fit smoothly together. Four castor wheels were attached to the two x four feet to make the cage easier to move and to help provide better airflow to the heat tape.
The top was made by Thomas Boyd of Diamondback Enterprises. It's in two pieces, held together in the center with a long hinge, so there are two sections of screen stapled to the wooden frame. The smaller sections of screen are more secure than a larger would be, and each side of the cage opens independently.
For heat I have a 3' piece of 11" wide heat tape thumbtacked to the underside of the cage. It runs along the back, under the hide box and under the cow skull. That little box with the green knob just to the left of the cage is the rheostat that controls the heat tape.
Here is current setup. Daemon's old room has been painted, new carpet, and it's now the rosy boa room. Instead of the wheels, the big cage sits on a 2' x 6' stand with a counter top that extends beyond the stand to hold the 20 gallon long aquarium. Sunshine has been living in the aquarium and Sirocco has the larger cage to himself. I've added a light on a timer and replaced the big hide with some smaller hides, otherwise it's about the same.
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