Quote Originally Posted by Bogertophis View Post
...that's an awful lot of work for scratched glass, & I wouldn't trust it to hold together without doing all that. Glass is heavy, even without water in it, so for safety you wouldn't just want to stick on a piece of molding to make it look OK, as the molding is essential to the structure. So by the time you buy all that plus do all
the work, you might as well buy a new tank for $1 per gallon. I would...

You don't want to use the kind of glass lid they sell for fish with a snake: Corn snakes need the ventilation. I make my own lids of wood frame with "hard-
ware cloth" (welded wire screen), or Petco will sell you theirs for quite a bit, & they need clips to secure. What ever you go with, corn snakes WILL push
up on the lid, so you need to make it escape proof. If you make a wood/screen top, you can chain the corners of the lid to whatever the tank sits on, by
installing eye bolts, buying multi-purpose lightweight chain & using "dog leash" type clips (all sold in hardware stores)...no snake can EVER push that kind
of lid off.

BTW, I'm a keeper of corn & various rat snakes, and yes, glass tanks are perfect for them. Adult corn snakes do well in a 40 gallon, as you were figuring.
You do make quite a point: this tank is not easy to just tote about and even when I first got it I had to have help moving it. Even if I did fix it all the stuff I'd put in there would add up weight-wise.
It actually came with one of those lids you'd buy at Petco/Petsmart for reptile tanks. I don't have a picture of it, but I did spray the bird poop off of it. It still has a couple zip ties on it from whatever my dad had on it, but also has a few holes in the wiring. :/
As for the diy lid, do you happen to have a picture/example of it with dog leash clips?