Want boa cage plans

[Ohio snake guy]

Does any one have good drawn out plans for Boa cages I would like them to be stackable?Thanks

[nick654377]

animal plastics. APcages.com

[Ohio snake guy]

Thanks but I should of pointed out I want to make my own.

[xFenrir]

I built my own but I didn't design it to be stackable. I'm sure you could just reduce the height of it to make more room though. Either way if you're interested in seeing my build I'd be happy to post/PM it to you.

[Ohio snake guy]

Yea sure I would like pics! They don't have to stack it would just be nice.

[xFenrir]

6ft long, 2ft wide and 3ft tall. We added the height to put in a climbing "tree" with a hot spot.




We used pre-coated melamine wood and disassembled an aquarium to make the glass panel for the UTH. I strongly recommend just getting a thick enough glass piece cut for you unless you know what you're doing; it took us close to 3 days and a lot of effort to dissolve the clauking on the aquarium, but the first piece of glass we bought actually shattered when tested with heat. Since we've used UTH's on aquariums before, we knew it would work. It's actually two aquarium pieces together and it's held for over a year, no issues. The doors are actually vertically-opening windows that we stood on their sides. They swing out like doors and have the bonus of having a locking mechanism. The side panels are plexiglass. The light has a metal screen over the opening so she cannot touch the light/bulb. We drilled ~5 ventilation holes on each end of the enclosure. (Ignore the analog dials, we got a infa-red temp gun and a digital humidity reader, but never took the dials out. I have no idea why they were even put in there in the first place.)

She doesn't seem to climb much, we'll see her up there occasionally, but usually she goes up, looks around, and comes back down. But it's a handy way to get her back into her enclosure, since it's a lot easier to just direct her onto the "tree" than try and pry her off your arms, lol. The taller you make it, the harder it will be to heat, trust me. The UTH at the empty side makes a nice hot spot and keeps that side warm, but we have to have the light over the "tree" on a timer to keep the other side warm enough overall. It keeps humidity wonderfully, though!

[Ohio snake guy]

Nice! how hard was the melamine to keep nailed together? when I tried to make something out of mdf the crap was like cardboard when I put screws in it and just fell apart!

[Jason Bowden]

Check out the profile of this guy: grits

He is a cabinet maker and builds some nice enclosures etc...

He's got tons of pics posted in his profile page.

[xFenrir]

Nice! how hard was the melamine to keep nailed together? when I tried to make something out of mdf the crap was like cardboard when I put screws in it and just fell apart!

It wasn't hard at all, we screwed the pieces together. They're probably about an inch thick so it stayed together pretty well. The back piece is actually not melamine, it's a mold-resistant panel (kinda feels like a sheet of plastic). The wood we got from Home Depot.