4ft x 4ft cage is not what I meant... my enclosures are 48" long, 16" deep or roughly 5 1/2 ft... about what I expect my snakes to be as adults. Again that is my preference... can you get by with less, sure, lots of people do. That size allows me to place an UTH at one end of the cage and still have better than half the enclosure "unheated". Not too long ago a posted a picture (along with a long winded commentary ) of the latest cages I made... the link below is to that thread so you can see a picture of what I mean... each enclosure is 48" x 16" inside.

The larger space size has nothing to do with a hondo's temperament... they like hiding, chilling out and doing nothing, most of the time they won't even use much of the available space... but with the size enclosures I prefer a snake the size of a hondo can comfortably put itself at the heated side or at the unheated side, move around without tripping over itself and just as important allows me to add a few fake plants and driftwood to dress it up some and still allow plenty of room for the snake.

Gerry
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