Austin, a couple of things, What does commercial have to do with it? Consider, the minimum requirement for a living animal is to reproduce. Commercial setups must achieve that or they are indeed not commercial. What makes a commercial setup is a minimum sized cage, the smallest cage that allows recruitment. not the maximum or anywhere inbetween.

You as a private keeper can offer you captives more and include behaviors that entertain you and support the animal.

My first question here(started people hating on me) was, anyone keep a hog in a way that is hog. You know, use that body and nose for its intended purpose.

That question bothers folks and a lot. Consider, I never said anybody had to do that, I simply asked is anyone did.

Back to the subject. A commercial breeder must support the animal to reproduce and only that, most are excellent at that. You as a private keeper, can offer more, and more for both you and the snakes in boxes.

As a cage builder and zoo exhibit builder, and keeper, folks ask me, whats the best cage. My answer is simple, a big box with big doors and one that can hold lots of substrate. The big doors are REQUIRED, so I can take everything out(that I thought was important) and replace it with something else that "may" be important or useful, you know, try again.

My concern with what I read about you Austin is, your looking for an instruction sheet to keeping hops. No offense, hogs are colubrids and they are about as easy as it gets to keep(alive) The question is, what will keep you entertained and learning.(having fun)

If you look(study) this forum, you have morph folks, and related genetic folks, and almost no actual keepers(husbandry is defined as, to support) very few(there are some, Gregg comes to mind) that can do support and morphs/genetics. Many here cannot or do not have a handle on living animals(hogs are living animals) so they break it down to math, morphs and genetics.

TBC Thanks

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