There are lots of great ways to house snakes, just use your imagination.

Here is a 10 gal viv that I keep a different hatchling in each year.






Here is a 20 gallon aquarium I used many years ago.



I tried this with a corn snake once. he loved it but it went through a lot of tubes. I have always wante to rebuild something like this out of PVC pipes for my racks




Wood cages sealed with epoxy.



That middle king is a 5 1/2 footer.




Current rack set up


If you claim to know their basic needs than just do what works best for you and your snakes. The advantages of a naturalistic vivarium are aesthetics, great temp gradient, humidity gradient, naturalistic behaviors observed. Disadvantages are that you can't take the snake out when ever you feel like it, they are hard to clean although I only do partial break downs on most of my vivs maybe once per year. Which means that they have to be large enough so that the animal can establish places to hide and others to defecate/shed etc.

Tanks are OK if you live in humid environments but if you live in a dry house than you will need a better top and a humidity chamber.

Racks offer convenience but don't let you see your snakes as well.

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• Kingsnake Decorations/Set-up - khorvidius, Fri Apr 16 02:37:04 2010
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