Quote Originally Posted by Chuck View Post
Not to mention the fact that you have to disinfect all that stuff and maintain cleanliness in a cage full of ten thousand things. You know it really sorta irks me when you take the time to teach or guide someone who has been given bad advice or has never been given any advice what so ever on how to care for there animal correctly. You spend the time trying to tell them what they are doing is going to run them into trouble at some point and how they should do it. Then you get someone who comes along and undermines you by telling them what they wanted to hear in the first place so now they think its ok to keep snakes in cages that are to big for them as long as you pack it full of enough crap.Even though that may not be exactly how you ment it thats what they take from it. I guess if Dave Barker was telling people this it would be a different story since Dave has worked with thousands of snakes so I would say unless you have worked with thousands of snakes its a bad idea to tell anyone anything that goes agents what captive husandry has taught us in the past 30 years or so.
This thread was started by DamienF, and he already had a 55 gallon tank, and (by the time I read it) he had given one of his BPs to his brother, and wanted to know if he could use the 55 gallon tank for just the one snake, because he didnt want to have to buy all new stuff. I dont see any reason someone cant use a 55 gallon tank as long as you make it into a secure home. I have agreed several times that a large tank is not needed, however you can make it work.