I was going to use wood glue and nails to hold it together.

What I would do is dry fit it with some screws, countersink them about 1/4" or so... then take it all apart. run some 100% silicone (GE silicone 2) inbetween the joints and put them back together. This will cause a solid bead of silicone inbetween your panels and will protect a LOT better from any leaks. You can seal along the edges, but it may peel up. This can't peel. Then go buy yourself a plug cutter, and from some spare trim wood cut yourself out some plugs to put in to cover the countersink holes. Make sure you put the grain of the plugs with the grain of the wood.



Inside on the bottom, I was gonna use expanded PVC, but it only comes in pipes around here, so I am probably going to use vinyl floor tiles, or a piece of FRP, or acrylic, or something like that.

Don't use vinyl floor tiles... they have seams and will seperate. I haven't ever used expanded pvc, I used FRP for the lining of my cages, works great.



I am going to put a ceramic heat emitter in the cage. It is gonna be about 9" from the side, and shoot straight down. I figure I can easily swap in a proheat panel in if the time comes.



I want to know about this. I was considering it, but I figured my snakes would probably try to crawl up over it, and end up burning themselves on the CHE. Could this work?



After I put it all together, I stain it, then seal the seams with something like caulking or aquarium silicon, right? thats what I was talking about putting the silicone inbetween the panels of wood.



Do you think 2 vents that are about 6"x2" will be enough?

yeah, with the siliding doors you wlll be getting ventilation from that as well... I have one 4" vent in each cage. Works fine.



If I use these sliding door tracks, where can I get a lock for the doors to keep them closed?

i got one at home depot, its like the kind that a jewlery store uses to keep the display locked.



I also agree with everything chris h. posted, just attempted not to repeat it. (Sorry if i was repetitive, however.)
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