Retic cage thoughts

[jmcrook]

Hey buddy,

What are the final specs?

I too am very excited for you. I hope you can rig up some higher perches and give her some good real-estate on the ground floor!

Final specs are: two cages that join in the center, 48x32x24, making one cage 96x32x24. Will have a center vertical support on both sides, so two pairs of sliding doors total. That’s the only part I’m not wild about but no one else will build this design for under almost $900. This build is $670 for the cages and $160 for shipping, $830 total. If she ever needs more space than this I’m sending her back to her geographic roots in Kalatoa lol!
Floor space will be taken up a lot by her hide and pool but she likes those so I want her to be happy. Should have a shelf in the new unit as well.
I need to either build a new cart for this or modify my current 6’ shelving unit to support this cage with overhang by 12” on the left and right. I just really like having my cages on casters for ease of access to the back for thermostat wires access and such.
Excited about the short lead time. I could have it by the end of the month probably, as opposed to sometime next year.


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[Gio]

Final specs are: two cages that join in the center, 48x32x24, making one cage 96x32x24. Will have a center vertical support on both sides, so two pairs of sliding doors total. That’s the only part I’m not wild about but no one else will build this design for under almost $900. This build is $670 for the cages and $160 for shipping, $830 total. If she ever needs more space than this I’m sending her back to her geographic roots in Kalatoa lol!
Floor space will be taken up a lot by her hide and pool but she likes those so I want her to be happy. Should have a shelf in the new unit as well.
I need to either build a new cart for this or modify my current 6’ shelving unit to support this cage with overhang by 12” on the left and right. I just really like having my cages on casters for ease of access to the back for thermostat wires access and such.
Excited about the short lead time. I could have it by the end of the month probably, as opposed to sometime next year.


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It sounds great, and I think this will make all of the difference.

Don't push the food, let her adjust, and settle. If you can at all possibly drop temps as fall arrives, I think that will help.

Her locale is one of the smallest and her feeding is heavy in the migration period, and very light when that season ends.

You are going to be making a big splash when you post pictures of that cage.

I really looking forward to it.

If nobody had said it yet,,,,,,, that is a hell of a good deal too.


Well researched my man!

[jmcrook]

It sounds great, and I think this will make all of the difference.

Don't push the food, let her adjust, and settle. If you can at all possibly drop temps as fall arrives, I think that will help.

Her locale is one of the smallest and her feeding is heavy in the migration period, and very light when that season ends.

You are going to be making a big splash when you post pictures of that cage.

I really looking forward to it.

If nobody had said it yet,,,,,,, that is a hell of a good deal too.


Well researched my man!

There’s always talk of the seasonal feast/famine feeding habits on those Super Dwarf/Dwarf islands but I can’t find actual field data to back any of it up. I’m by no means planning to slam her with food but once her mouth is healed up good I do have rabbits ranging from 4-5.5lbs in my deep freezer. Hoping one of those will allow her to stretch to a two week feeding interval but we’ll see. Those will NOT be a regular prey item. Just a big treat every so often.
I can’t wait for this cage to get here. Can finally upgrade Gerald as well and get the boa into half of Gerald’s T8 until he grows enough to use the whole cage. Then I “should” be set for the foreseeable future. Scheming on how I might outfit the current 6’ shelves the cages are on to hold an 8’ cage with a 6’ on top. Would only be 12” hanging off either side, but there will be a large heavy water bowl and hide at either of those ends, possibly occupied by a 25lb+ snake at anytime.
At the moment I’m considering two sheets of 48”x30” plywood secured to the shelving unit, 8’ cage centered on the shelf/plywood, 6’ cage centered above that. I don’t think there would be enough of a mechanical advantage to allow any tipping or sagging on either end. Or I could just build a simple essentially oversized pair of furniture dollys for both halves of the big cage with 2x4s and 5” casters. Those casters aren’t cheap though. We’ll see


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