Heating

[I-KandyReptiles]

RHPs don't emit light, just heat.

I have one in my bps tank, along with a row of flexwat. It keeps my temps stable.

[barbie.dragon]

If you're using a cage that big super clutter it with a lot of pretty decorations! For both you and the snake IMO and my breeder's opinion the humidity should be at 60-65% as rat burrows in the tropical savanna have relatively high humidity.
For humidity I would put a water container directly under the heat source too

[Dark Lady Kat]

If you're using a cage that big super clutter it with a lot of pretty decorations! For both you and the snake IMO and my breeder's opinion the humidity should be at 60-65% as rat burrows in the tropical savanna have relatively high humidity.
For humidity I would put a water container directly under the heat source too

humidity issues are what sparked the build of this cage because of how cool we keep the house the ambient humidity in my house is max 30% but usually sits closer to 20 which is why we went with a wood habitat it will hold the heat and humidity better than the 40 gal breeder they are in. we thought about tubs but we are not to a breeding stage and our girls are for us and to look pretty lol so we wanted to be able to see into the cage

we may in a few years consider breeding once our girls reach adult hood and weight but for now they are just pets

[ewaldrep]

It sounds like a great enclosure, hope you post some pics of it. This forum has a lot of good advice but some of the members can become quite upset when discussing enclosures. There was a recent arguementative thread that went on for several pages of bickering. Many keepers/breeders keep thier bps in tubs and justify it because the bps tend to live in burrowed out holes. Of course that does not mean that they live all thier life in the same hole and do move from one place to another outside of a hole. My understanding is that there have been some observations of bps in trees appearing to hunt birds on occasion. In addition, villagers supposedly think a bp going through the village was a good omen and would not disturb them. So if it works for you and you are meeting the husbandry essentials for caring for your bp then good on you and I am looking forward to see the sectioned off feeding area.

[Dark Lady Kat]

It sounds like a great enclosure, hope you post some pics of it. This forum has a lot of good advice but some of the members can become quite upset when discussing enclosures. There was a recent arguementative thread that went on for several pages of bickering. Many keepers/breeders keep thier bps in tubs and justify it because the bps tend to live in burrowed out holes. Of course that does not mean that they live all thier life in the same hole and do move from one place to another outside of a hole. My understanding is that there have been some observations of bps in trees appearing to hunt birds on occasion. In addition, villagers supposedly think a bp going through the village was a good omen and would not disturb them. So if it works for you and you are meeting the husbandry essentials for caring for your bp then good on you and I am looking forward to see the sectioned off feeding area.

Here are some pictures of the habitat being built please remember these are not the final photos so try to not be to critical it is the first habitat I have built myself all of the edges are sanded and rounded off now we have not decided on a substrate for the top of the feeder which is where the basking area is. We are considering using repticarpet with full velcro to hold it in place not sure yet on how we like that idea so any recommendations are welcome

this one is when we had just started getting things built


picture of roof


view from outside entry into the feeder box


view of inside of the habitat and inside entry into the feeder

[martin82531]

Here are some pictures of the habitat being built please remember these are not the final photos so try to not be to critical it is the first habitat I have built myself all of the edges are sanded and rounded off now we have not decided on a substrate for the top of the feeder which is where the basking area is. We are considering using repticarpet with full velcro to hold it in place not sure yet on how we like that idea so any recommendations are welcome

this one is when we had just started getting things built


picture of roof


view from outside entry into the feeder box


view of inside of the habitat and inside entry into the feeder

Maybe your first habitat but looks like you have worked with wood before From what I see I like! As long as your husbandry is correct and you balls have secure hides, looks good. Please post final pics once your done.

[Dark Lady Kat]

Maybe your first habitat but looks like you have worked with wood before From what I see I like! As long as your husbandry is correct and you balls have secure hides, looks good. Please post final pics once your done.

I will post final pics and I have worked with wood before but on a much smaller or larger scale my grandmother owned a ranch so I have built barns and kennels and fences and that side of the larger scale and then on the smaller bird houses and sand boxes just never ventured into habitats so I am excited to see the final product as well the only thing I would change so far is that I haven't worked with plexiglass before so I will be rebuilding my doors and finding a better way to frame them screwing trough the plexiglass caused a couple of small cracks in the corners it barely came above the line of trim and is internal so there is no exposed edge but I know once the girls get older they will have enough weight on them to make that crack spread and fully crack out so I will be re building the doors (recommendations welcome on best framing methods there)

Also we decided to turn this first box into a split habitat this morning so each side will be 2x2x2 (our rottie had a hand in that decision when she came barreling through the house playing with her sister and didn't see my second sheet of plexiglass already scored sitting in the door way and so one side of the sheet was toast, since we are not buying any more building supplies until after Christmas the girls will have this one box split then if we get into breeding we will have a display for babies lol )

That and with the introduction of myself to radiant heat panels I want to build a solid roof with radiant heat panels but my kids might kill me in my sleep if I spend all the Christmas budget on building snake cages lol (I would to if I didn't tell myself no) (pets behave better than children)

With that all said any and all recommendations are welcome since I will be building more and I also would like to know if any of you know what dimensions are best for a full grown red tail boas male

[martin82531]

I will post final pics and I have worked with wood before but on a much smaller or larger scale my grandmother owned a ranch so I have built barns and kennels and fences and that side of the larger scale and then on the smaller bird houses and sand boxes just never ventured into habitats so I am excited to see the final product as well the only thing I would change so far is that I haven't worked with plexiglass before so I will be rebuilding my doors and finding a better way to frame them screwing trough the plexiglass caused a couple of small cracks in the corners it barely came above the line of trim and is internal so there is no exposed edge but I know once the girls get older they will have enough weight on them to make that crack spread and fully crack out so I will be re building the doors (recommendations welcome on best framing methods there)

Also we decided to turn this first box into a split habitat this morning so each side will be 2x2x2 (our rottie had a hand in that decision when she came barreling through the house playing with her sister and didn't see my second sheet of plexiglass already scored sitting in the door way and so one side of the sheet was toast, since we are not buying any more building supplies until after Christmas the girls will have this one box split then if we get into breeding we will have a display for babies lol )

That and with the introduction of myself to radiant heat panels I want to build a solid roof with radiant heat panels but my kids might kill me in my sleep if I spend all the Christmas budget on building snake cages lol (I would to if I didn't tell myself no) (pets behave better than children)

With that all said any and all recommendations are welcome since I will be building more and I also would like to know if any of you know what dimensions are best for a full grown red tail boas male

I think this has already been recommend but I would go with the RHP's from reptile basics. The nice thing about RHP's is they don't need to be ran with a proportional thermostat you can use an off/on style like the hydrofarm ones.

I have been looking into getting a RTB once I have my balls setup perfected. (husbandry is perfect, in the process upgrading from glass to pvc). From my understanding though they need an enclosure that can support their full size so hey can stretch completely out. Depending on your RTB you will probably need something 5-6 feet in length I'm assuming.

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[Dark Lady Kat]

yes it was in this thread that I was introduced to RHP my current design wouldnt support one though so I will be building a new one yay I like my power tools sometime my hubby gets jealous of my power tools