here is the best advise I can give. Unless you are great at woodworking and are as strong as an ox, don't build a cage; BUY ONE!!! So far the best available cage for the price is the expandable cages by boaphile plastics (NERD has some awesome cages but they are way over-priced for the average keeper). You can start out with an expandable 4'x 2' x 18" cage and when the snake outgrows that cage just buy the other side expandable of the same size and you just got a secure and practically waterproof cage that you never have to re-seal or that doesn't weigh 400lbs. Add the fact that they are stackable and never shift and you can't beat them for the money. If you think about it, if you don't already have the tools to build your wooden cage, buying these cages is actually alot cheaper than building one.

PS.... I have built my share of cages in the past and got tired of having to get a few friends over just to re-arrange my snake room.
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Josh & Krysty Hutto
J&K Reptiles

Various Ball Pythons:::

1.0 striped vanilla
1.0 spider
1.2 Citrus Ghost and hets
1.2 Albino and hets
2.3 het Pied
0.6 50% poss het pied
1.1 Pastel (male has additional gene going on with him)
a bunch of normal female breeders
a bunch of normal female holdbacks and several rescued normal males

0.1 columbian boa, she's a feeding monster, controls my
over production of rats, lol
0.1 brazilian rainbow boa, another rat eating monster
1.1 corns


a BAD dog is MADE not bred, support the American Pit Bull Terrier as the greatest breed of dogs on Earth!!!!!

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