relatively speaking the boaphiles are relatively inexpensive. I've built my own cages and to make a stack of four 2' x 4' x 19" tall dividable cages cost me well over a grand (probably closer to $2000 but don't tell my wife ) in materials alone. The cages were done very nicely with oak wood, oak plywood, fully lined with formica inside, heat tape etc. etc. I really like my cages as breeding cages for my BRB's but they do take up a 5' x 2' floor space for 8 cage sections. I also have two stacks of boaphiles 4' x2' x 11.5" 6 single, 3 dividable into 2 sections and 3 dividable into 4 sections. From a cost standpoint they are less expensive than the materials I would buy to build a wood/glass cage and that does not include my time to build. For a "showcase" I prefer my homebuilt. For utility, cost per cage and ease of expanding and/or reconfiguring my snake room, the boaphiles are MUCH better.

Here is a few pics of my older homebuilt. Very similar look to my newer one but the newer one has some improvements. Like all formica inside, not just floors, heat tape, individual levels etc. etc.









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Thanks,

Dave "Rainbows-R-Us"


0.1 Wife
0.2 kids
4.12 Brazilian Rainbow Boa
1.0 Hypomelanistic BRB
0.1 Het for Hypomelanistic BRB
0.1 BCI "Elvira" normal from 1989
1.0 BCI albino / het-anery
0.1 BCI Hypo / het-albino
0.1 BCI Anery / het-albino
0.1 BCI Hypo (possible super)
1.0 BCI albino het stripe
1.0 BCI salmon hypo
0.1 BCI ghost

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

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