Tank Size Question

[mitchball]

We have a year old BP and are building a cagae out of a 6x2.5x3 dresser (9 drawer) would that be too big and stress out a ball python????

[Kaorte]

Yes. I wouldn't go anything larger than a 20g long tank for a year old ball python.

Ball pythons are pretty shy and secretive snakes and don't move around much. They are also terrestrial snakes which means that it wouldn't use any of that height. It would just be wasted space that you would still have to heat and cool.

[reptidude1]

x2- thats REALY big even a little too big... mabey if you use a divider... if you dont, unless you have lots of newspaper and hides, then i guarantee your bp will go off feed (hope im not being to blunt )

[mitchball]

thats REALY big even a little too big... Mabey if you use a divider... If you dont, unless you have lots of newspaper and hides, then i guarantee your bp will go off feed (hope im not being to blunt )

We just decided to put a divider and on the side with the water bowl we'll put the BP and the other side we're going to put our cresties.

Not too blunt just perfect. I was looking for other peoples opinions so it wasn't blunt trust me!

[Kaorte]

Do you have pictures of it? I am curious to see how it turned out

[mitchball]

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This is all the shelves
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To the left of the water bowl is where we are putting a split wall.

What ya'll think?? Oh and we also need to put plants in it we have air plants and artificial vines on the way

[Kaorte]

I think it looks great! Very intense!

That will be a blast to clean, no offense

[mitchball]

It is awesome and oh yes it will be a fun job to clean. lol the dresser is solid oak and heavy as crap. soooo we have to clean that inside. lol

[reptidude1]

DAMN thats nice

[DrawnToLife]

I haven't had any problems with my my snakes and the size of their enclosures I have an 8 month old in a 65 gallon and plenty of hides, not much open space and he does fine, he eats weekly and uses all the space, its well heated on one side and at a stable cooler side, he hasn't shown stress at all neither have the others that i recently got my hands on, both in 40 gallon tanks, so it all depends on the snake i guess, mine have been doing great and your cage is gonna look awesome good luck