Quote Originally Posted by KevinK View Post
Id really like to see a picture of two large hides capable of holding an adult female BCI and a large water dish on top of it in a 4x2....given that the snake itself occupies almost 1/2 of the floorspace of the enclosure by itself. If you count crawling on top of the hides as "room to move around" then I can see where you're coming from. Two large hides (the size of an inverted litter box) and a large dish gives you about 12"x12" of remaining floorspace. RBI jumbos as 20"x14"x6"....use two of them in a 4x2 animal plastics and youve got less than 2'x2' of floorspace.....then subtact your large water dish......

Muscle tone in snakes (like any other animal) is gained through activity...climbing for example. I fail to see how you would be getting muscle tone by using a small hide. There's an old trick where people use a 6ft step ladder for building muscle tone in large boas actually.
I have her in a 2’ tall enclosure, so she can also go over the hides. When I get my 6’ enclosures fixed back up and running, she’ll go into one of my 6’ enclosures instead, which can easily hold 3 of her jumbo RBI hides. She is 7’ and can fit inside a jumbo RBI without so much as lifting a corner off the ground, and her water dish is bigger than either of her hides.

I don’t like her being in such a small enclosure but my wooden enclosures are currently drying out on the sidewalk after a pipe bursted in the building we had them in.



She’s getting muscle tone because she has to actively to coil up tight enough to fit in the hide. I have other pictures of her actually inside her hide, but they’re on my computer.

As you can see, she doesn’t come close to taking up 1/2 the floor space on her own. She is definitely 7’, maybe 7.5’, 10-13 lbs. There isn’t a *whole* lot of room to spare, but she can easily move around, and she’ll go into one of the 6’ enclosures when they’re ready.


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