New Terrarium

[Faith.luu]

I'm a huge fan of the Exo Terra tanks. The front doors are so convenient.

I've got my 6yo female in the 36x18x12 size, and it's adequate, though I'll eventually need to move her up to something bigger. But if your female is only just growing out of a 10 gallon, the 36x18 will last you a good while before she outgrows it.

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I use the same one for my female. And although it is very nice, and a great terrarium you’ll definitely run into some cons.

Humidity will be a very big issue if you live in an area with a natural humidity of 40 or lower. If not, then this doesn’t apply, or at least not as much. But I live in an area with humidity between 35-40% on average. Using this tank I’ve ran into quite a bit of problems. In the end I made it work but it definitely took some work and time. You’ll want to use substrate that retains the most humidity, cover a portion of your screen top, and might even require other methods to keeping humidity up like adding sphagnum moss, and building a humidity box. If you want to use some sort of heat bulb, as your source of heat, that will also decrease your humidity hugely. I’d definitely recommend a heat mat with a glass enclosure, and using a low watt heat bulb to just keep up ambient temps if you need to, otherwise, if ambient temps are good, don’t bother with the heat bulb.

I find that the exo terra is especially bad at retaining humidity because it has extra ventilation compared to just a standard glass tank.

Not to say it won’t work, but be advised that this tank may take some trial and error, just from personal experience. I’m sure this won’t be a big issue for you though since you’ve worked with a glass tank before, so hopefully it won’t be too much of a pain for you as it was for me since you know what you’re doing.

I would also recommend investing in a 30-40 gallon tank now rather then buying a 20 gallon, and then upgrading again later on. Tanks are usually expensive. I find that buying more decorations to clutter the tank is a better and cheaper alternative than to upgrade the tank more than once. As they get older you can just de-clutter the space.

And if your snake still gets stressed from the 30 or 40 gallon tank when cluttered, then It’s no problem to buy a 20 gallon tank, and then move your snake into the larger one later, but upgrading straight to the largest one could save you some time and money.