Quote Originally Posted by Crotalids View Post


Of course, hence why i said dependent on species, as i imagine most of you keep more than just Royal's.


Many of you have stated that you don't do a naturalistic set up because of the time to maintain them, and the cost involved. Neither which is true, as they don't take long to maintain, and the cost is next to nothing. Obviously when they're youngsters they need to be fed on a more frequent basis in case they do go on a hunger strike. But adults can go a very long time without food, people just panic far too much.
I only keep royals so I'm only referring to them.

As for rack vs naturalistic cage. While I can't answer for everyone, I'll answer for myself. I mentioned in a previous post that I chose racks because the snakes seem to do equally well in a rack compared to other enclosures. Maybe even better in some instances?
Maintaining a newspaper tub requires more frequent cleaning than one using organic substrate. When a snake soils their newspaper, you have to change it out entirely. I have to change newspaper once or twice a week for each of my snakes. Sometimes even more. I've used aspen before and that was easier to maintain. At least it was for me. Spot cleaning is easy to pick up on the spot and dumping bedding once a month. That was less work for me than newspaper. But both aren't difficult. I was just pointing out that paper needs more frequent maintenance. I'm a full time university student so money isn't growing on trees for me. I get newspaper for free from school so that helps a lot with costs. I also have limited (temporary) space so full blown display enclosures aren't logical right now.

But when I get my own house and have a steady income, I would eventually like to try a naturalistic enclosure for 2 or 3 of my more established, more confident royals. I don't think the rest would tolerate the change very well.

But I would definitely do a nice natural set up for other less sensitive species for sure.
From what I've seen from most other members here, they do the same with their non ball python animals.


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