Display cage advise

[ed4281]

My boss is getting a ball python for the clinic (I talked him out of a Burmese Python) and wants to have it in a display cage. I know this isn’t the best option due to the snake hiding etc, but it’s already done. I know some people do keep BP’s in display cages, I was wondering what some good companies to look at would be, money isn’t an issue he wants a furniture quality cage that will be able to meet a BP’s humidity and heat requirements. Please give me your input and advice.
Thanks in advance,
Ed

[Vypyrz]

Here are some links to the sites with Melamine and PVC cages. Other than these your other option would be a glass tank or build one. Hope this helps...

http://www.boamaster.com/

http://www.sentecreptilecages.com/

http://www.animalplastics.com/

http://www.repti-racks.com/index.php...tpage&Itemid=1

http://www.boaphileplastics.com/

http://www.reptilebasics.com/

http://www.visionproducts.us/htm7/cages.html

[TheSnakeEye]

I second the above post

Unless he wants to go custom and build himself

[ed4281]

Thanks, however those cages are a little too utilitarian. He wants a shopiece that looks like furniture. I have seen them before but I am not pulling up anything good on google.

[alexOATH]

Thanks, however those cages are a little too utilitarian. He wants a shopiece that looks like furniture. I have seen them before but I am not pulling up anything good on google.

I think you're thinking of Cages By Design. They're the ones that have those huge wood furniture pieces that have been converted into various terrariums/reptile tanks. They have end tables, coffee tables, etc. Although they're in the thousands 0.o

[jbean7916]

Yeah, we looked for a nice display cage before and couldn't find anything in our budget, bet bet is to have a custom built cage, or make it yourself!

[zina10]

Thats where I get my cages from

http://www.showcasecages.com/cage_pictures.htm

In my opinion those can't be beat, if you want it all !

They are attractive and best of all, they are ingenious. The design is extremely well thought out. You can stack them right on top of each other and STILL keep light (strip and dome) in between if you choose to do so. Plus a UTH under each cage. There are cutouts for everything.

They hold humidity and heat well. Easy to clean, if you wanted you could take the glass doors out (takes 10 secs) and take the cage outside to hose it out.

Prices aren't that bad, etiher.

I have the 48x24. LOVE IT !!!

If you put it on the stand and then drape a tablecloth around the top and add a nice fake vine plant on top of it, it will look like furniture.

[jbean7916]

Thats where I get my cages from

http://www.showcasecages.com/cage_pictures.htm

In my opinion those can't be beat, if you want it all !

They are attractive and best of all, they are ingenious. The design is extremely well thought out. You can stack them right on top of each other and STILL keep light (strip and dome) in between if you choose to do so. Plus a UTH under each cage. There are cutouts for everything.

They hold humidity and heat well. Easy to clean, if you wanted you could take the glass doors out (takes 10 secs) and take the cage outside to hose it out.

Prices aren't that bad, etiher.

I have the 48x24. LOVE IT !!!

If you put it on the stand and then drape a tablecloth around the top and add a nice fake vine plant on top of it, it will look like furniture.

Wow, great site!!!! They do look really nice!! I'll have to bookmark them for when I'm looking at display cages again!

[ed4281]

Thats where I get my cages from

http://www.showcasecages.com/cage_pictures.htm

In my opinion those can't be beat, if you want it all !

They are attractive and best of all, they are ingenious. The design is extremely well thought out. You can stack them right on top of each other and STILL keep light (strip and dome) in between if you choose to do so. Plus a UTH under each cage. There are cutouts for everything.

They hold humidity and heat well. Easy to clean, if you wanted you could take the glass doors out (takes 10 secs) and take the cage outside to hose it out.

Prices aren't that bad, etiher.

I have the 48x24. LOVE IT !!!

If you put it on the stand and then drape a tablecloth around the top and add a nice fake vine plant on top of it, it will look like furniture.

Thanks those look great, Is the size above what you would but an adult BP in?

[zina10]

People say its big for a BP, but if you have a female and you put 2 appro. sized hides in and perhaps some wood and fake plants, a naturalistic looking water bowl, etc, I don't feel its to big.

The challenge is that this is not the best setup for a hatchling, but certainly can work for a well established eating juvenile. Its worked for all the ones I've had before.