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Seemed to me like you were getting ready to open fire on this kid.

Forget it. I was just trying to keep the peace. Its not really worth it here anymore.

i really wasn't... it seems to me like everyone here totally misunderstood my first post. i swear to god i meant absolutely nothing negative about it, i just wanted to know why someone who's never owned a snake was advertising caging. i didnt even go to the damn site and look at the cages, they could be the sweetest cages out for all i know. i do not care. i just asked a question. so lock me up, throw away the key.

No prob Will. But i don't thing he was advertizing. Do you??? He found some nice cages though it looks like you could put heat lamps and such on top. Its not right for a ball python but would be perfect for a bearded dragon or something. You got to admit they are pretty nice.

If I or whomever misunderstood then lets just forget it and move on. Nuance is often lost in this sort of communication, no big deal.

exactly... no big deal. locke, im sure you can find a more suitable enclosure for a ball python. if something that looks nice is what youre going for, then by all means modifying a tank with a screened top isn't at all wrong. i say go for it, in fact i have one bp in a tank right now. the rest are all in rubbermaids. i like the rubbermaids bc the temp and humidity is maintained with literally no effort at all. my 2 cents...

I like rubbermaids too. Jojo is in a 90qt and it holds humidity almost too well. I agree with will. If you want a cheap easy to maintain enclosure then a rubbermaid or sterilite enclosure is your best bet. The corners are rounded so you can clean very easily unlike tanks with 90* corners its hard to get in the areas where the corners meet up. And you can completely fill a rubbermaid with a cleaning solutions and leave all the decorations in it at the same time so those can get disinfected too. All thanks to a material we call plastic. LOL

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The corners are rounded so you can clean very easily unlike tanks with 90* corners its hard to get in the areas where the corners meet up. And you can completely fill a rubbermaid with a cleaning solutions and leave all the decorations in it at the same time so those can get disinfected too. All thanks to a material we call plastic. LOL

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very good points ive never seen posted before. cleaning a rubbermaid is SIMPLE. lugging those ol' 40-50 gallon tanks i have outside to the water hose is a pain.

My thinking was just that its something I have to look at for a really really long time, so I wanted it to look nicer. I got a cheaper tank to start off with and if I can't get the conditions right then I'll scrap it and move on.

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Originally Posted by locke24

If I or whomever misunderstood then lets just forget it and move on. Nuance is often lost in this sort of communication, no big deal.

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Yeah, you have to be careful when communicating on the net because of that.

It's not just humidity and heating, as you can also get nose rubbing problems. If it gets to the point where the scales are rubbed off, I believe that they will not grow back and thus there will be permanent scarring. With that said, a lot of people use screen lids without that being a problem. It's probably more likely to happen if the enclosure's too small, but could probably happen in any size with a hyperactive snake.

Anyway, as long as you're on the lookout for it you should be able to catch it in time before it gets to that point. It's just one less thing to worry about if you start off with a rubbermaid/sterilite.

Welcome to the forums by the way, locke24!!! Your willingness to do research and setup the enclosure before buying is a great step in the right direction.