PVC cage decor

[Nellasaur]

My fiancée's corn snake likes to climb, but I was having a heck of a time finding a climbing feature for his cage that I liked. Hitting the right combo of appropriately sized, easily cleaned/sanitized, interesting to climb, and within my budget was just not happened. So what is there to do but make it myself?

Some PVC pipe, some joins and caps, some Plastikolite ceiling tile grid, and some zip ties, and voila! A snakey jungle gym.





I haven't seen him use it yet, but I just put it in last night (and he's sleeping off his meal for the week anyway). Hopefully he likes it! And making it has given me tons of ideas for décor for the Vision cage I'm planning to move my ball python into when he gets a little older...

What do y'all think?

[andrewross8705]

That is awesome! I never thought about using PVC to make my own snake gym but now I have a number of ideas.

Thanks for sharing!

[KMG]

I don't know the size of the snake in there but make sure there is no way for the snake to enter the holes of the tile grid.I've seen snakes get stuck in objects here before and it is usually always a delicate situation to get them out with injury.

If there is a danger the snake can crawl in the grip a mod you could do is cut the down legs and add a T. This would let you put another horizontal piece of pipe on each side giving a replacement to the grid.


You may be interested in scorching the PVC too for a more cosmetic appeal.

[Nellasaur]

That is awesome! I never thought about using PVC to make my own snake gym but now I have a number of ideas.

Thanks for sharing!

I hope you'll share, whatever it is you end up making!

[Nellasaur]

I don't know the size of the snake in there but make sure there is no way for the snake to enter the holes of the tile grid.I've seen snakes get stuck in objects here before and it is usually always a delicate situation to get them out with injury.

If there is a danger the snake can crawl in the grip a mod you could do is cut the down legs and add a T. This would let you put another horizontal piece of pipe on each side giving a replacement to the grid.


You may be interested in scorching the PVC too for a more cosmetic appeal.

Yup, I thought about that! I don't think the grid holes are going to cause any issues based on his size, but I'll be checking on him pretty closely in the first few weeks to see if he's going to get himself into trouble. You never know, right?

I've got T-joints in mind if I do end up needing to modify it at all. And for when I build something bigger and more complex for my ball python.

My fiancée and I have been considering spray painting with an appropriate paint and sealer, actually. I hadn't thought of scorching it, though, thanks for the tip! I bet that looks really neat.

[Craiga 01453]

My fiancée and I have been considering spray painting with an appropriate paint and sealer, actually. I hadn't thought of scorching it, though, thanks for the tip! I bet that looks really neat.

Rust-oleum makes that paint that makes it look like stone. I'm planning on using that when I end up upgrading my enclosures and building the snakes some jungle gyms.

[Nellasaur]

Made another one! I wanted to give my ball python something new to explore, so I put this together for him. Of course, he's in shed right now and is spending all of his time hiding in the hide underneath his new furniture, so no idea yet how he's going to take to it. We'll see!

[tttaylorrr]

that looks great!!! i wana make one!

[hollowlaughter]

Pretty cool idea for enrichment, I bet BPs would love stuff like that too. I already keep some PVC pipes (2") in my enclosure so my boy can move around without being seen, if he wants to.

[Nellasaur]

that looks great!!! i wana make one!

You should! And if you do, I hope you share it here!!