I have 6 snakes in various places on my floor in my apartment, 4 Ball Pythons, 1 Sumatran Short Tail female, and 1 8ft female boa. Everyone except for the boa is in 32qt tubs with either bungee cords, suitcase straps, or in the black blood's case, a tied Science Diet leash To me, I could care less if they look tacky on my floor. Because honestly, if the snakes are thriving, eating, shedding completely, breeding, defecating/urinating, and doing everything they should be doing on a regular basis, then who cares what the enclosures look like.

I also have the rest of the Ball Pythons in rack systems, either 6qt, 15qt, 32qt or 41qt, and they are doing exactly the same. Eating, thriving, breeding, shedding, defecating/urinating, etc etc. If they weren't, then I would change their housing.

To me, display cages are for animals who are actually out during the day(sleeping or not). Beardies, Uros, Green Tree Pythons/Emerald Tree Boas(any tree boas), corn snakes, active diurnal snakes/lizards/etc that will actually be seen.. I don't want a display cage that has a "pet hide" or a "pet water dish" inside.. There's no point.. Not to mention glass enclosures are awful, they are fragile, heavy, expensive to buy/setup/maintain. Glass is a HORRIBLE insulator, and you'll spend so much money on electricity trying to heat the thing, it's just futile. The glass will always try to be the temperature of the room. It's just how it is..

Plastic now.. Plastic is a great insulator as well as being a fairly decent heat conductor. Plastic tubs are also readily available in about any size you want, they come with lids(GASP!) unlike most tanks, they have tons of floor space and not much height(the good ones) which is easy to heat. When I'm setting up a tub, all I do is get the soldering iron out(a cheapy $3 one ONLY for this purpose) and melt a few holes along the sides. I then set it up with heat and a thermostat depending on what size tub it is, I add newspaper, a waterbowl and a hide, and I find a bungee cord or something similar to hold the middle of the lid down. Put the thermometer probe under the hide and you're good to go. Let it heat up for 15 minutes or so and that's it. Add snake. No tweaking, no buying $200 worth of equipment to actually get temps and humidity where they should be, no covering the sides to make the snake feel less exposed, no soppy substrate to raise humidity which can cause belly rot and just a sesspool of bacteria if not completely cleaned out each and every time the snake eliminates.

For me, it takes about an hour or 2 to clean over 40 tubs, even Sonja the boa's big VE-175 tub. If I had to clean that many tanks, I would be cleaning for more hours than I have in the day. It's just not feasible for someone who wants to have a life, or a job