I totally agree! I've got 14 snakes currently and NONE of them are in glass tanks for all of the reasons you stated above. I've got a dozen glass tanks of various sizes in the attic (boy, that was a chore) and as far as I'm concerned they'll stay up there till I'm ready for a dozen fish filled tanks. Plastic tubs are lighter, break resistant, no square corners to make it difficult to clean, great for humidity loving snakes, and easy to heat with under tank heat, which I prefer. I keep my display snakes in Boaphiles or Moonstruck cages- again because they are relatively lightweight for the footprint of space they give the snake.

I have kept plenty of rat snakes in glass tanks over the years. I used to set up little terrariums with moss and drifwood, live plants, sunken naturalistic water sections- all that good stuff. All the plants- died (I had full spectrum lighting but the bulbs blew, broke or shorted out from the humidity), got a mite infestation and threw all that stuff out and switched back to paper for substrate. Easy to me means CLEAN. It was a real pain to sift through all that naturalistic substrate and keep it clean. I can clean 10 tubs in the amount of time it used to take to clean 1 55 gallon tank. With just one snake and a lot of attention, a glass tank can work. Once you get a few snakes though, tanks are a lot of unused space that are difficult to maintain.

Lora

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