Building your own tank...

Hey there,

I have been trying to find plans and measurement on building your own tank for my ball python. Its been pretty friggin fustrating as i cannot find what im looking for. Has anyone on here built there own? How big? What did you use? How much did it cost?

Please if you have ANY information that would be AWSOME! also if you like, posting pics would be fanastic aswell!

Thank-you SOO much.

Ginger.:D

Here are plans: http://www.blueappleherps.com/page13/page5/page5.html

This is a viv I designed. Total cost is ~$100 not including heat and it will hold two snakes. I designed it with cornsnakes in mind, but it can easily be used for ball pythons. Instead of using 12" wide melamine shelving - use 16" wide shelving all around (everything else would be the same though). Also, if you're worried about humidity, you can just use hardboard instead of pegboard and then drill ventilation holes. I also designed it to be built by someone with no experience and only using a drill and tape measure.

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask.

http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r...e/P1010046.jpg

Looks awesome!... Im building pretty much the same exact thing this weekend... 4 times!! What are the dimensions on that baby? Mine are going to be 4x2x1.5. Should be able to get 4 stacked on top of eachother... I was estimating 50$ per enclosure not counting heat so looks like ill be somewhere in that range... This pic gives me more motivation to do it! Great job

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Originally Posted by JoshJP7

Looks awesome!... Im building pretty much the same exact thing this weekend... 4 times!! What are the dimensions on that baby? Mine are going to be 4x2x1.5. Should be able to get 4 stacked on top of eachother... I was estimating 50$ per enclosure not counting heat so looks like ill be somewhere in that range... This pic gives me more motivation to do it! Great job

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Thanks. The dimensions are 36x12x14. Perfect for corns and other colubrids, but probably a little too cramped for a bp. Good luck with yours. Be sure and post up some pics.

Thanks for the replies. Does anyone know the dementions to use for a BP? Plus, in one of the tanks i want to house a red tailed boa. So it would have to be big enough for that snake aswell.


thanks again.

If you use my design, just modify the length that you use to accomodate larger snakes. Here's another good site with info and plans: http://arbreptiles.com/cages/cages.shtml

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If you use my design, just modify the length that you use to accomodate larger snakes. Here's another good site with info and plans: http://arbreptiles.com/cages/cages.shtml

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Where in Lewisville are you located? I am moving back to Flower Mound in Feburary and would sure like to meet some other bp owners in the area.

I "built" this about 8 years ago for nt breeder corn snakes. It was under $150 for everything, including lights and snake proofing it. This wouldn't work for BPs over about 1000g, but you can find lots of things that can be modified into a decent looking herp display.

http://inkednation.com/images/user_a...6275124045.jpg

nice!!! i would love to do that... and i do have an old dresser!!! hmmm thanks for the great idea

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Originally Posted by PythonWallace

I "built" this about 8 years ago for nt breeder corn snakes. It was under $150 for everything, including lights and snake proofing it. This wouldn't work for BPs over about 1000g, but you can find lots of things that can be modified into a decent looking herp display.

http://inkednation.com/images/user_a...6275124045.jpg

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Where in Lewisville are you located? I am moving back to Flower Mound in Feburary and would sure like to meet some other bp owners in the area.

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That'd be cool. I don't know any other ball python people either. I'm over off of Business 121 and Coporate. Where are you moving back from?

hey I was just wondering..I plan on getting some boas and would they do ok if instead of making it longer I made the width more? maybe like 24x36x14?

I absoluetly love how this plan is very straight forward. It makes building a cage very easy to someone who has no experience in building anything. I'm going to change the design a bit by making it 24" wide and 48" long. I'm also going to use a solid back, but I'm going to install a vent from Cagesbydesign in the back of each. Unless I can find a cheaper vent at Home Depot or something. Anyway, I thought I would let you know my plans and I'm definantly going to post some pics when I'm done. Thanx for the plans, I've been reading them alot so I can get this down.

Oh and, FIRST POST!!! YAY!!! :carrot: :sunny:

-Chris- :)

Couple pics of my unfished cages... got 2 completely done and 2 need about an hours worth of work... should have all 4 done by tonight... will upload some new pics when theyre done... 4X2X1.5ft

https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil.../7/3/tank3.jpg

https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil.../7/3/tank1.jpg

Snapped a pretty crappy pic of the two finished ones with my camera phone...

https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil.../7/3/cages.JPG