Caging woes...

[Reinz]

I had a local guy build me a couple of 4x2x2 PVC cages. He installed LED lighting stripping. I love the features of remote control and changing colors with a press of a button.

However, don't trust the factory adhesive. Between high humidity and an extremely active/curious/highly professional escape artist Coastal Carpet, she pulled the strip down. Fortunately, it did not stick to her bad enough to remove any scales. But it was a mess getting the substrate off of it.

I reattached the strip with a liberal amount of silicone sealant. That is the ticket! But it did take a few days to dry since I purposely applied enough to ooze out the sides of the strip. So I had to relocate Lizzy during that time.

I have a Boa that I rescued in the other cage. She is surprisingly not much of cage climber, probably due to her lack of opportunity in the past. Thus, her LEDs are still intact. But I feel that it will eventually fail.

[Sauzo]

I had a local guy build me a couple of 4x2x2 PVC cages. He installed LED lighting stripping. I love the features of remote control and changing colors with a press of a button.

However, don't trust the factory adhesive. Between high humidity and an extremely active/curious/highly professional escape artist Coastal Carpet, she pulled the strip down. Fortunately, it did not stick to her bad enough to remove any scales. But it was a mess getting the substrate off of it.

I reattached the strip with a liberal amount of silicone sealant. That is the ticket! But it did take a few days to dry since I purposely applied enough to ooze out the sides of the strip. So I had to relocate Lizzy during that time.

I have a Boa that I rescued in the other cage. She is surprisingly not much of cage climber, probably due to her lack of opportunity in the past. Thus, her LEDs are still intact. But I feel that it will eventually fail.

You can also use heavy duty Velcro. It works well and if the snake does somehow pull it down, the Velcro wont stick to the snake or the substrate. Plus if you ever need to do cage cleanings, you just pull the lighting down and take it out.

[Reinz]

You can also use heavy duty Velcro. It works well and if the snake does somehow pull it down, the Velcro wont stick to the snake or the substrate. Plus if you ever need to do cage cleanings, you just pull the lighting down and take it out.

Good idea, however, I would not personally trust the adhesive backing, it's the same or similar to what is on the LED strips.

Back to silicone again.

[EL-Ziggy]

I use AP cages with the recessed LED light strips. There's no way the snakes can tamper with these.

[Hypancistrus]

I use AP cages with the recessed LED light strips. There's no way the snakes can tamper with these.

Ziggy, can you show me what you mean by "recessed light strips?" I am assuming you cut the cages to put those in?

[EL-Ziggy]

AP installed the led strips for $40 but you're right they cut the recess into the top of the enclosure. The only issue I have with them is that you can only get them in red, white or blue through their supplier. Their strips are 8mm wide and all the led strips I could find were 10mm or larger. If I could have found the right size AP would have installed them for me.

[Hypancistrus]

AP installed the led strips for $40 but you're right they cut the recess into the top of the enclosure. The only issue I have with them is that you can only get them in red, white or blue through their supplier. Their strips are 8mm wide and all the led strips I could find were 10mm or larger. If I could have found the right size AP would have installed them for me.

That's interesting, I had no idea that AP did LED lights. In your photo, it is blue LED lights on the colubrids up top? What is on the snakes below in the full 4' tank?