Quote Originally Posted by SamuraiZr0 View Post
also think of where they are from Africa!! that's alot of space not just a small area..
Africa is large, no doubt. But there's now way you can perfectly simulate the type of environment BPs naturally dwell in (and I'm not just talking about landscaping, either).

As someone mentioned earlier, a BP may spend its entire life in an area the size of a football field or two. A lot of space, you say, compared to a 32-qt tub. However, these snakes move about out of necessity, whether to hunt, breed, escape predators, etc.

If someone went out to the Serengeti (or wherever these snakes hail from), dropped an ASF in the burrow once a month, stood guard with a rifle against predators and at the right time of the year, threw a snake of the opposite sex down the hole.....I would wager that BP would rarely if ever venture out of its burrow. After all, why would it, if all its needs were brought to its doorstep in a routinely manner?

So unless you planning to build a football field-sized enclosure, landscape it with termite mounds and rodent burrows to look like the African savannah, establish a colony of gerbils in there, and then put your BP in there.....the "well, they have tons of open space in Africa" argument doesn't fly, IMHO.

If all its needs are met, you don't need a huge cage to make your BP happy and healthy.