I just built my own screen top for my 35 gal tank before I bought my corn snake. I used 1"x2" board, cut to fit into the recess part of the acquarium frame. I spread aluminum screen over top of the wooden frame and used a stable gun to stable the screen to the frame, keeping the stables very close together and the screen very tight. My snake has not escaped from it at all (even though twice I thought he did but he was still in the cage come night fall..he was very fast and good at hiding in the shavens while I searched through it).



I had looked at the plastic screen covers you can get for acquariums and they always look so flimsy and not worth the price they ask for them when I can build a better one for half the price. I will probably add clips on the sides now that my snake is getting bigger, he may be strong enough to push out the screen though he hasnt' done so yet. Deffinitely a wise precaution.

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