Caesar progression thread.

[Sauzo]

AP pages says they need freight to ship? I don't even want to think what that will cost to ship.


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Yeah you have to call them. Freight to me would cost $229 but Ali told me if I order more cages, the freight drops a lot. Like the freight to ship 2 cages would only be like an extra $50. Loaded sliding doors model with LED, shelf, lock and flexwatt with shipping would runs me around $770 each. I'll probably just 2 for right now, that should run me about $1500 and then just order the other 1 or 2 more later lol.

[Prognathodon]

We had our big cage order last year shipped freight, I forget at what point it was a better value to have it sent freight than standard. We had it sent to my husband's office, since they had a proper loading dock (and some freight companies won't deliver to a residential address), and he drives a pickup with a full bed.

Unless confirmed otherwise, assume for freight shipments that the driver will only get your goods to the tail of the truck and you have to unload it yourself (if its been palletized you do not have to take the whole pallet off in one go, you can split the wrap and take individual boxes off, within reason).


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[Sauzo]

Well as long as he backs the truck up to my garage and has a lift gate, I'll be fine. I cant imagine the cages being really too much heavier than the T10s and I was able to lift those easily. If I get 2 cages at once, if they come on the pallet, I'll either see if he has a dolley so I can just slide the whole pallet into my garage and deal with it there at my leisure or I'll have to manually push it which will suck haha.

Regardless though, at that moment, I'll probably be so pumped, I'll He-Man them up myself and feel it in the morning

[Gio]

I was quoted $168 for shipping here. That would be a T-25 or modified T-25.

Its not a deal breaker, but I can save a lot picking up a pre-built unit from Monster Cages.

I am still strongly considering AP with a similar setup to Sauzo. T-25 with shelf and I'll add my own perches as well. My state borders Iowa (AP's home) but Sauzo has a longer shipping route to Washington state.

The hobby isn't cheap if you do a reasonable job of caring for and setting up your animal properly.

Larger snakes will definitely cost you some money to care for.

Call AP and get your quote.

[Sauzo]

I was quoted $168 for shipping here. That would be a T-25 or modified T-25.

Its not a deal breaker, but I can save a lot picking up a pre-built unit from Monster Cages.

I am still strongly considering AP with a similar setup to Sauzo. T-25 with shelf and I'll add my own perches as well. My state borders Iowa (AP's home) but Sauzo has a longer shipping route to Washington state.

The hobby isn't cheap if you do a reasonable job of caring for and setting up your animal properly.

Larger snakes will definitely cost you some money to care for.

Call AP and get your quote.

Heck, wish I lived kind of close to AP haha. I bet driving there and back would still be less gas than $168 lol.

Words of wisdom if you do go AP. Go light on the Lexel. A little goes a long way with that stuff. My T10 cages, I used almost 2 tubes for 3 cages and the stuff stunk for a week and took as long to cure too. The T8s, I cut just the tip off the tube and squeezed out a very thing bead and then used a wet finger to smooth it out and push it in the crack. Only took about 3/4 of a single tube to do a 3 of the T8s and they have the same footprint as the T10s. And they don't stink and are just about cured after 1 day.

And yeah larger snakes definitely cost more but as weird as it sounds, I do love them and so it's worth it to get them set up to keep them happy. And that's not even factoring in food if you own a piggy snake haha. Caesar is in pretty deep shed as his eyes don't blue over, they just get really cloudy and dull. I tried to feed Dottie and she didn't want to eat for the 4th week lol so I figured Caesar ate in shed once and today should be his feeding day but I was going to skip it cause of shed. Well with the extra medium rat, I said why not and lifted Caesar's cool hide and hung the rat at the door. He was all gung ho for it lol. Like I said, hes in deep shed so again he kind of missed it but got the body. Took him like 10 mins to find the head as he was in full retard mode being in shed but he chowed it down, then wandered over to the warm side and curled up behind his warm hide. He is such a garbage can. Think I am going to try and alternate between a large rat and medium rat each week. He really isn't so food driven anymore as when he was a baby plus the rat place by my house, the sizes run on the small side. So a medium is like a small and a large is like a medium at the reptile shop that is an hour drive from my place.

Anyways back on the cage thing haha. Definitely get a shelf. It adds floor space so it turns the 48x24 into a 48x32. Adding perches will offer even more. And best of all the shelf is pretty cheap, its like $30 for it. Think its $40 for the T25s though but they are 8" deeps so plenty for a snake to curl up and relax.

Oh and one other thing. The shelves are easily removed from the cage so it makes cleaning them easy. Just have to tilt them and slide them out the door. Then can spray down the whole cage with F10SC and the shelf and let it soak and wipe it all down and then put the shelf back in.

[Sauzo]

And we got Caesar following suit and doing the stretch and lounge too.

[Stearns84]

And we got Caesar following suit and doing the stretch and lounge too.

Caesar is looking thick in this picture!

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[Sauzo]

Caesar has been putting on girth. I cut him back to medium rats every 10 days. That pic is him in sausage mode lol. My boas do that sometimes too. I don't know why but they will pancake out and just lay there for hours. Its like they just let it all hang out haha.

[Sauzo]

Havent done many shots of Caesar recently so here are a few.

[jmcrook]

He's looking great man! Got that beastly muscled noggin going on for sure!


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