Well I can think of a few suggestions for your cages. Doug Barrs will special order any thing you want, or at least a couple of years ago he was willing and I am only assuming that he still is. When I asked for specialty cages he built them with no problems and they came out perfect, so just show him some plans and he will make want you asked.

I personally think that 10" is just a bit too low for a boa cage, not for the snake itself but for the choice of hide boxes for it. I use jumbo litter pans turned upside down with a hole cut in them for my large boas hide box, they are about 8" tall which only gives 2" on top. My boas like to sit on top of their hide boxes almost as much as they sit inside them, at 12" tall they can do this at 10" tall they can't. I'm not sure how tall you stack you cages but I am stacking them 5 high with an 11" bottom stand so the cage is not on the ground (I'm getting to old to sit on the floor to clean snake cages) so that buts the top cage starting at 5' tall perfect eye level to work with, not too tall to work in either.

I like your plastic tray idea, where did you ever find trays that size, that would be nice to be able to just remove the tray, change that paper and put the tray back in! Sweet set up, just like a bird cage.

As far as the 4x2 size, I try and stay with one square foot of cage size for every one foot of snake. Unfortunatly I now have two female boas that exceed 9' long and the 4x2 cages are a bit too small, that is why I liked the idea for the 2x2 added blind hide from Jeff Ronne's cages this adds another 4 square feet of cage plus a built in hide box for the snake.

I do have the same issue with the litter damns with my smaller boas, oddly enough my big boas, I just open the cage and unless they are in shed they just come out on their own, it is almost as if it is play time for them and they know it. I don't have and center supports on any of my cages, just don't need them I guess.

Good luck in getting them built, but try Doug Barrs, he was pretty willing to build anything and very reasonable about it.

Thanks
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Jim Hopkins "Hoppy"

Hopkins Holesale Herps

Hopfam1@aol.com

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