Quote Originally Posted by Sauzo View Post
You could. While I like looking at display cages, not a fan of having to clean them and as I have my snakes out a lot, I tend to change their substrate fairly often as I don't want a snake who cruised across a turd or a pile a piss crawling all over me lol.
Guess how long it takes to clean these,,,,,,?????





All of those perches pop right out. Bing, bing, bing. Dust pan scoops out substrate when doing a deep clean. Shop vac takes the rest. Scalding, close to boiling water and solution goes on the floor of the cages to remove any traces of urates and the filth. I'll dump a bag of coco husk, cypress or repti-bark in and replace the hides in less than 15 minutes. That is a TOTAL clean/change out.

You can't spot clean news print or paper towels, but natural substrate is easy to scoop and replace, literally minutes is all it takes when just spot cleaning. It actually absorbs waste and minimizes smells, and isolates most defecation.

Really, the only things I need to clean are the hides, water bowls and substrate.

Unless your cages are always ripe with humidity, nothing really happens to the perches and fake plants. My snakes don't defecate on them, at least not in the last 5 years.


Again, each to their own, but don't be turned off from enjoying the beauty of a naturalistic cage based solely on cleaning. Its not that difficult if you think it through.

I draw the line on the number of snakes I have when the work to keep them overshadows the fulfillment of having them.

With four currently, I'm not at all over my head.



That SD you have there sir is absolutely stunning!

Every time you update her pictures she looks better and better!