BP Cage Size Question

[Moonshae]

I want to first start off by saying that as you increase the size of the tank you also increase the difficulty in maintaining proper temps and humidity. You'll want to have your set up running in stable conditions before you acquire your snake. There is nothing worst than dealing with the frustration of trying to tweak your enclosure along with the added anxiety of a snake that will not eat.

I definitely planned to have my tank set up and stabilized before getting the snake...makes perfect sense. No point subjecting the animal to the stress of an inappropriate environment, especially since I'm sure it'll take me longer to get it right, being new.

Keep in mind that anything you put in the enclosure will be peed and pooped on regularly, snakes also have psychic abilities when it comes to soiling the most annoying thing in the enclosure to clean. So whatever you put in there make sure its not absorbent and is easy to clean.

Definitely. I know how this works, with several pets. If there's a bare floor or something important on the floor, the cats will throw up on the important thing...why dirty the floor when there's something disposable to throw up on? Haha. *sigh*

Another option you may want to consider is raising your snake for the first couple of months in a plastic tub and then moving it to its final destination. Flexwatt is pretty affordable so creating a plastic grow tub shouldn't cost much at all. This will make cleaning and what not much easier until your snake is ready to utilize the full scale of a larger tank.

That's an idea, too, and worth checking out. I would like to be able to look at my snake, though (especially since handling initially is off limits), and most tubs are at best translucent, right?