Sliding glass doors - tempered or annealed?

[Chaos-n-Dissonance]

Unfortunately, there is no "right" answer.

Generally speaking, if my budget allows, I tend to go for the more expensive. With the glass... I wouldn't worry about the snake breaking it. I'd worry more I would break it. I'm clumsy. I'd hate to do something stupid and end up shattering the glass. Plus, while youcan't modify the tempered glass, you could probably find someone who can (for a price).

That's the thing, with tempered glass it's not really possible simply because of how it's made. Any modifications like that would be hard to say the least, and even if done professionally and successfully it'd still significantly weaken the structural integrity of the glass. You'd need to get annealed glass, drill the hole, then temper it. I don't mind paying a bit extra for tempered but a custom job like that would probably be way too much

For ball pythons, annealed would be fine. I have a retic that has struck annealed sliding doors a few times, and they've been fine. Though I have seen glass shatter from a retic bumping it on this forum.

Awesome, that was the kind of anecdotal evidence I was looking for I figured a retic could shatter the glass from flexing, but was pretty sure it'd be a different story for ball pythons... Was more worried about the strike force, but if a retic could strike annealed glass and not shatter it then I'm sure they'd be fine with a ball python