Home-made caging is coming along nicely. (Pic heavy)

[Mindibun]

Almost finished.

We put in the vinyl flooring last night, sealed and caulked it tonight. (Caulking is absolutely NO fun without that nifty "smooth edge every time" tool. If you decide to do this, get one!



I also hung the greenery from the ceiling. All other decorations and hides and such will go in when the snakes do, but these had to be put in before-hand.

The "hardware":


Zip-ties, attached to the vines, attached to the mounting base:


Then attached to the ceiling:


The vines have some give so that if the snakes decide to climb up there, they won't end up hanging themselves:


The finished product:




24 hours from now I'll start temp testing (flex-watt runs under the vinyl flooring), and hopefully by the next day the snakes can go in. Any ideas for improvements? Oh, and should the snakes somehow miraculously manage to dirty the vines (and I'm sure they will...) the zip-ties can be cut and the vines brought down for cleaning. It's a lot of extra work, but it's just two snakes (not 24 or something like you guys all have.) so I figured it was worth the work to get the look. We're also going to be putting in some sort of wood or metal trim along the top edge of the vinyl to make it look nice and "finished."

Tell me what you think!

[Mindibun]

Oh, and someone brought up the heated flex-watt causing fumes. We didn't put any sort of glue or sealant on or near the flex-watt. We kept the glue as far away from it as possible, and I really don't think it'll heat up enough to cause a problem anyway. The lighting gives off a little heat on its own (just warm to the touch) so the flex-watt won't be heating up very much.

I don't see any other way of heating it if not the way we've done it. But, I don't think I'll have any issues. There is also a panel for ventilation along the back wall.

[Enser54]

I was planning to build myself some enclosures like this once the weather gets nicer but wasn't sure if I'd be able to cover the flexwatt with something like tiles, so its cool to see that you did it, please post how it works out.

you don't happen to have instructions on building this do you? or at least the plans for it.

[juddb]

Radient heat panels would have worked great with these cages!!! But the flexwatt should do the trick! Cant wait to see the final product

[OhBalls]

That is NICE! can't wait to see it filled! Great job!

[Drew87]

Very cool nice job!!

[Jamik]

Wow! Those turned out really nice! Looks great.

[dsirkle]

Looks good!

[Mindibun]

Radient heat panels would have worked great with these cages!!! But the flexwatt should do the trick! Cant wait to see the final product

Alright, Mr. Moneybags. Some of us have to make due with what we already have...

[muddoc]

Very nicely done. I think the snakes will enjoy them too.