Would a male ball python reach 5 feet

[Regius_049]

Again, i beat you on 2 points (height and width) and you beat me on one point längth. My BP won,t have the same space to stretch himself on the ground as yours, and yours won't have the height to climb and stretch himself to the above as mine. When I finish the setup I could post a photo of him climbing and happy to tease you with it

I had thought I covered this in my above post, but perhaps my description needs work. Either way, this "1 point vs 2 points" is not a valid comparison. His floor space is 1152 sq. inches and your floor space is again 744 sq. inches (a roughly 35% difference). Volumetrically a 48" x 24" x 15" is 17,280 cubic inches and your enclosure (2' x 2.62' 3.30') is ~29,880 cubic inches (43% difference), which I presume is at the core of your argument. However, the 48" x 24" has more usable space. The 48" x 24" floor is pretty much all usable space, where height, even in carefully thought out enclosures with lots of branches is less usable. If you are lucky, you can maybe utilize 50% of that additional volume. If you utilize the "hypotenuse" of your cage and give it a ~3.8' branch, you can increase the space for the snake to "stretch" out, but for a larger snake this is less ideal than a ground area as effort must be taken for the snake to maintain it's position. You can utilize ledges to help improve this, but your usable space and "stretchable" length is still limited.

This the the reason experienced keepers recommend longer setups for arboreal and terrestrial species as I mentioned previously. They understand the utilization of space.

Your 2 long, 2,62 deep, 3,30 high is actually a pretty nice enclosure for a variety of reptile species, but not ideal for most boids I can think of off the top of my head. Perhaps a male GTP (green tree python) or ATB (amazon tree boa). It would make a killer gecko setup though.