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    Thanks for the replies everyone. I did actually order Dusty Rhodes' book the other day, and I look forward to looking through it. It's possible this idea will evolve more over the next several months, as like I said, I'm still sort of in the earlier researching stages. I may glue the rocks together so the snake cannot move them and get injured; they aren't glued now but it would be pretty easy to use silicone or whatever people use to glue aquarium rock displays together.

    I want to make a more natural environment for the snake I end up getting, and I know that keeping a snake indoors in a confined space is fundamentally not natural, but I'm sort of of the philosophy that they will be more relaxed with things familiar to their natural environment. I would really like more natural cover, like plants, branches, and burrows, to work, and also because it would look better to me than a more "pet store" kind of aesthetic with bedding and plastic hides.

    Oh, on the sand; like I said, my substrate is a mixture, but I did read that if you use play sand (which I did), it is manufactured in a way where there aren't any sharp edges to the sand particles, so I hope that will prevent or minimize any scratching?

    I'm willing to not have the beetles with the snake and move them to their own setup if they don't work out. But I will be really observing them together. They just wedge themselves under stuff during the day; I only really see them active in the evening, but admit I don't keep night owl hours so I'm unsure whether they are active at night as well. The beetles seem kind of scared of everything (I mean, the first thing they do if I poke one is play dead) so it would seem really out of character to me that they would be grumpy towards an animal larger and faster than them, but like I said, I want to see if it works and would be fully willing to admit if it doesn't, and relocate los beetles. People have used them in, I think leopard gecko enclosures as well as tarantula setups without anything bad happening, and those animals are much closer to the beetles' own size than a snake would be.

    I have been taking progress photos and may end up doing a video or something once everything is put together, but I expect that will be about a year from now, by the time I actually get a snake and it moves from quarantine into the setup.

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