"Display" cage...

[Zincubus]

Distaff, I do love display cages, even for snakes.

However, some snakes make more use out of a display cage, then others. Some love to explore and climb etc...others, not so much.

I feel that Ball Pythons are happiest crammed in small spaces. They do "cruise" some when hungry, but usually, but the ones that are constantly on the "go" and climb way up underneath a light, are most often stressed in some way. Stressed from lack of privacy or incorrect heat/humidity.

So I feel it depends. Ball pythons can still be kept in display cages. But if they are happy, you don't see that much of them, LOL !!! And once they get up in size, they tend to destroy the most beautiful setup. Plus an elaborate setup can be difficult to be kept really clean. Sometimes you have to take everything apart to clean well. And when it is a big job it gets stressful to the snake to have the entire cage stripped and re-arranged each time.

I have done both. Displays AND Rack. I have to admit, I honestly feel the ones kept in a Rack (big enough, spot on heat and humidity) are just as happy and usually less stressed. But here I am with a display cage.

It was very important to me NOT to use a glass cage. I want easy maintenance and the Neodesha combines ease of maintenance with beautiful display. You still get a lightweight, easy to heat cage. Easy to maintain humidity. But you have the large, slanted glass front. Top, bottom, sides and back are still "solid". So the cage itself is like a "cave".

It can be done with a all glass cage, but it makes it much more difficult imho.

While I like the "naturalistic" look, I have learned that it still needs to be easy to maintain. So that it can still be kept spotless without to much of a headache and to much stress to the snake.

I would like to have a couple or more display cages, but I think I would put a Russian Ratsnake in it, or another snake that loves to be out and about and to be "seen".

I completely agree, though, if someone only has a handful of snakes and a lot of time (and space) Display cages can be the way to go. And certainly beautiful

It's looking pretty darn good and it's a stunning looking Royal .

Now you write a lot of sense although I don't entirelely agree with your thoughts on the their reason for climbing being STRESS !!

Many Royal keepers have branches in the vivs and they're used most evenings , I myself have 5 Royals who enjoy climbing , they are all super relaxed and ravenously feed on those dreaded DF rats every single time ( shed time aside) granted two of them are fed fortnightly but the other three feed weekly.

There's a photo in my snake collection thread showing the pair of Albinos eating at exactly the same time.