Hi Ed, and welcome! Glad you found us! Regarding the waterfall, I've not used one, but I've heard from people who have and had their snakes try to crawl in them and got stuck. I also don't know how difficult it would be to disinfect when you do your cleaning. Another alternative is plastic tubs, which a lot of us use - wonderful for maintaining temps and humidity!


Sounds like you really plan to do a lot of your homework before you make your purchase, and we LOVE owners like that here!

Regarding age - I don't think that it really makes much difference. I prefer to raise my own, I just get a lot of satisfaction out of it, but I've had really sweet babies, and real fire crackers too, but they've all settled in nicely. Conversely, I adopted an adult female this spring that would have rather bitten my face off than looked at me. I still loved her just the same (she has a new home now with another member here).

Ask whatever questions you wish - there's always a member here waiting to answer!