Snake exploration room?

So i have a large home, 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms plus den. I currently don't use one of the bedrooms. I've been thinling of turning it into a snake exploration room. Blocking off all possible escapes and raising the room to 83. Do you think this would add stress to my noodles?

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Originally Posted by Pezz

So i have a large home, 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms plus den. I currently don't use one of the bedrooms. I've been thinling of turning it into a snake exploration room. Blocking off all possible escapes and raising the room to 83. Do you think this would add stress to my noodles?

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What kinds of snakes do you have? Its just BP correct? If you have some more active snakes like colubrids I would say they might like it but I'm not sure about a BP. The most reaction you'll get would probably be a mad dash for the nearest dark place lol.

I don't see anything harmful in it though as long as you make triple sure there is no room for escape

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Originally Posted by BluuWolf

What kinds of snakes do you have? Its just BP correct? If you have some more active snakes like colubrids I would say they might like it but I'm not sure about a BP. The most reaction you'll get would probably be a mad dash for the nearest dark place lol.

I don't see anything harmful in it though as long as you make triple sure there is no room for escape

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Yup I'm down to just beeps. I thought about the mad dash thing but think i can counteract it with enough clutter and hides. I'm worried that it could cause stress though.

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Originally Posted by Pezz

Yup I'm down to just beeps. I thought about the mad dash thing but think i can counteract it with enough clutter and hides. I'm worried that it could cause stress though.

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If they were there to long it may be stressful, and without proper supervision you could have a few lost snakes on your hands lol. I just feel like they wouldn't make use of it to much. I would imagine they would just pick one dark spot and stay there.

Do you already have one of the rooms as a reptile room for them where you have their enclosures and stuff set up? If not maybe you could just repurpose the room for that

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Originally Posted by BluuWolf

If they were there to long it may be stressful, and without proper supervision you could have a few lost snakes on your hands lol. I just feel like they wouldn't make use of it to much. I would imagine they would just pick one dark spot and stay there.

Do you already have one of the rooms as a reptile room for them where you have their enclosures and stuff set up? If not maybe you could just repurpose the room for that

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There's a reptile enclosure room as well as a quarentine room. I suppose i could repurpose the room as me and the wife's sex dungeon lol.

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Sounds like a fun idea. Once you get the room escape proofed and heated, you could run some pretty neat experiments to better understand your snake and it's wants/needs.

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Originally Posted by Pezz

I suppose i could repurpose the room as me and the wife's sex dungeon lol.

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If I had a house that big that's exactly what I'd do. For now I can only dream of having a snake room, let alone a sex dungeon. I suppose I'd better find someone to marry first... :oops:

When I was renting a nice sized house in Vegas, I did that. I put some large branches in the corners, a kiddie pool in the middle, some large corrugated tubes and other random stuff around and then would let my big boas (one at a time!) loose in the room to explore. Supervised of course. Some of them seemed to enjoy the out time every once in a while (not always). I liked being able to do that for them and wish I still could. Of course these were 5-7' boas. They tended to stick to the edges of the room, crawling up and around on the logs and tubes around the room but that was about it. If a boa wasn't in the mood, they'd usually just chill or curl up in a corner so back to their enclosure they would go. None of them ever checked out the pool.

A would suspect a BP might me intimidated by the large empty space but some snakes are simply more outgoing than others. Maybe set up a jungle gym type thing with tubes and boxes to explore in the closet so it's more of a confined smaller area (with the doors open so snakie could come out if it wanted to).

Good luck!

As a landlady of homes in Vegas the thought of someone doing that to one of my rentals terrifies me!

That being said having a room exclusively for snakes to crawl and explore sounds like an amazing idea. Another idea is to just bite the bullet and get some large lizards and turn that room into one giant tegu habitat. Then again I have a thing for big lizards so that might be a terrible idea.

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Originally Posted by SDA

As a landlady of homes in Vegas the thought of someone doing that to one of my rentals terrifies me!

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As long as the carpet was covered to protect it in case the snake had an accident or water was spilled, and nothing was screwed into the walls, there shouldn't be an issue.

Now that said I don't see a ball python getting much enrichment from such a playground, though boa constrictors, and Burmese and reticulated pythons would be fun to watch in it.

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Originally Posted by SDA

As a landlady of homes in Vegas the thought of someone doing that to one of my rentals terrifies me!

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I'm simply curious why it terrifies you?

The rental agency I was using was aware of the critters, also had a dog as well as multiple 75 gallon and a 240 gallon fish tank at the time (which was probably more terrifying to them due to the amount of water)
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Like John said, if you could get the heat and humidity right in the entire room, sounds fun! But also not sure how much of the BP you would actually see or that it would actually use, unless you stay up at night when it gets hungry.

Many other more active species would take full advantage of the space, I think. I'd love to try something like that if I could, for when my russian rat snake grows to adult size, or for my scrub python.

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Originally Posted by redshepherd

Like John said, if you could get the heat and humidity right in the entire room, sounds fun! But also not sure how much of the BP you would actually see or that it would actually use, unless you stay up at night when it gets hungry.

Many other more active species would take full advantage of the space, I think. I'd love to try something like that if I could, for when my russian rat snake grows to adult size, or for my scrub python.

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I was immediately thinking Russian Rat snake too hehehe

(which btw I'm still totally jealous but also super excited and omg I can't wait until you get yours)

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Originally Posted by redshepherd

Like John said, if you could get the heat and humidity right in the entire room, sounds fun! But also not sure how much of the BP you would actually see or that it would actually use, unless you stay up at night when it gets hungry.

Many other more active species would take full advantage of the space, I think. I'd love to try something like that if I could, for when my russian rat snake grows to adult size, or for my scrub python.

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I'm a nocturnal person. I work as a chef so i don't get home untill midnight and am up until 3 am. Although as others have said it may be an idea for a different snake. I've been trying to get an anthill python for a while.

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I did a tortoise version of this just so in the winter my tortoises had a decent area to roam.

Its a good form of enrichment though my BP likes the garden better in summer, he surprised me by climbing trees.

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Originally Posted by AbsoluteApril

I'm simply curious why it terrifies you?

The rental agency I was using was aware of the critters, also had a dog as well as multiple 75 gallon and a 240 gallon fish tank at the time (which was probably more terrifying to them due to the amount of water)
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The truth is for every responsible renter out there there are far more irresponsible or simple those who just don't care because hey, not their property.

That kiddie pool in the middle? Most likely filled by bringing the garden hose inside the house. Those 240 gallon fish tanks? They are not the easiest to drain. When things like those spill and if lucky, you have tile floors and not wooden ones, well that's not as bad as the wall that wicked up all that water and got damaged. But hey no big deal the security deposit will fix having to tear out half that wall and replace it right? Well that $1000 deposit? It only covered 2/3 the damage because they let it sit forever and now you have mold... wonderful. Could go after them for the rest but the lawsuit would be more than the money recouped so I just suck it up and have the work done.

I am not saying you are a bad renter or were one at all and this is not on you in any sense but I have had my share and like I said, big water features inside the house terrify me. It's one thing to have a dog and my renters have pets and I welcome them to have them but water is a whole different issue. As someone who has kept many hundred gallon tanks, I know what happens when someone goes wrong.

As long as it can't get out and there isn't anything for them to get stuck under it might be worth a shot

Ragnarok loves to explore and roam around my house. I let him do it sometimes, only because he likes it so much. He usually ends up hiding somewhere of course, but it can sometimes take him up to an hour to finish his climbing and exploring.

Ragnarok is a strange ball, but he is a male, and I suspect they like to roam more than the females. At least that has been my limited experience.

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Originally Posted by Pezz

There's a reptile enclosure room as well as a quarentine room. I suppose i could repurpose the room as me and the wife's sex dungeon lol.

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Originally Posted by John1982

Sounds like a fun idea. Once you get the room escape proofed and heated, you could run some pretty neat experiments to better understand your snake and it's wants/needs.

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^ but i would also add a termite mound. ;)

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Originally Posted by Pezz

There's a reptile enclosure room as well as a quarentine room. I suppose i could repurpose the room as me and the wife's sex dungeon lol.

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This! Lol

For ball pythons? No.

For some of the more active larger colubrids, the idea doesn't sound stupid in concept but you think you'll have every possible escape route or small space blocked off but you won't. Then you'll be here in a month or two posting "help my snake is stuck in <some random thing>"