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I've used all kinds of caging for ATBs over the years, my favorites were probably the visions cages. After having sold them all years ago, I don't feel inclined to buy new ones all over again...I do highly recommend them though. The BARRS cages are also a personal favorite. Rubbermaids always worked well for me, but I HATED not being able to view these beautiful snakes...Corallus are definitely the ULTIMATE display snake...they deserve display cages!

I recently began experimenting with Zoo-Med cages and I like them very much.

ATBs are so predictable; when setting up the perching and foliage, you can literally predict where their favorite perching spots will be

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Mike Heinrich,
708-428-5616
Mike@amazontreeboa.org
http://www.amazontreeboa.org

Nice cages Mike and of course excellent animals!

Just curious how you are heating those? Thanks and take care.

Rico Walder
Signal Herpetoculture

Thanks Rico,

I heat the whole room & they get all their lighting from widows. I keep nothing but ATBs, so I do everything based on their cycling.
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Mike Heinrich,
708-428-5616
Mike@amazontreeboa.org
http://www.amazontreeboa.org

i agree 100% on the predicability, when i'm setting mine up, i decide where i want to view him best and arrange the cage in that fashion and viola, there he is every night! But i find the exo-terra is nice because you can open only half. my preferred veiwing placement for the ATB is right out front, so opening the other half to do some cage clean-up is less risk of disturbing him.

Is that a rubbermaid lid or a styrofoam box lid on the tops??

Those are rubbermaid lids lying over the screen tops. When I get some free time, I'll cut some plexiglass that will fit that opening and then just add air holes as needed.

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>>Is that a rubbermaid lid or a styrofoam box lid on the tops??

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Mike Heinrich,
708-428-5616
Mike@amazontreeboa.org
http://www.amazontreeboa.org

nice mike! I keep quite a few of my ATBS in exos..here are a few..

I used to go with only belly heat, then I went to belly heat with a small overhead heat to control the cool end, but there was a shelf where the snake could bask right under the heat. Now I am going with just the radient heat panel. I switched mom to this during pregnancy and had great success with all live babies...but I might have to play around with it to get the breeding action I had before.

I deffinetely like the large area to give a pregnant female room to choose her own temps.

>>I used to go with only belly heat, then I went to belly heat with a small overhead heat to control the cool end, but there was a shelf where the snake could bask right under the heat. Now I am going with just the radient heat panel. I switched mom to this during pregnancy and had great success with all live babies...but I might have to play around with it to get the breeding action I had before.
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>>I deffinetely like the large area to give a pregnant female room to choose her own temps.
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How do you guys like the exo. One of my fiends keeps his eyelash vipers in them he is really happy with them. I was worried about lighting and the such. I might be getting some Gtp. And thought these would make a nice display.

how do yall keep the humidity in for the exo terra tanks?

>>how do yall keep the humidity in for the exo terra tanks?

I keep the screen top 80% covered, I mist twice daily, and I run a humidifier in the snakeroom.
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Mike Heinrich,
708-428-5616
Mike@amazontreeboa.org
http://www.amazontreeboa.org

>>>>how do yall keep the humidity in for the exo terra tanks?
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>>I keep the screen top 80% covered, I mist twice daily, and I run a humidifier in the snakeroom.
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>>Mike Heinrich,
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>>Mike@amazontreeboa.org
>>http://www.amazontreeboa.org

I live in Florida. I probably won't have to go that far. But thanks for all the info. I think those cages look great. Todd

With mine I run a UTH with a 2" layer of moist coconut substrate and mist twice daily...the UTH and moist substrate maintains a constant humidity for me and I also have 25% of the top covered with plexi and a normal flourescent running 12hrs during the day...this combination usually keeps the tank at 82*-84* ambient temp with a 80-99% humidity....my room temp is around 72-74 so at lights out the temps are down to 78*f....note: these are 18" and 24" high exos, not the small 12"ers...I would imagine if you were using small ones the extremes would be higher..both temp and humidity.......all in all I like the exos mainly for visual reasons...I like to look at all my ATBs and display them, there are better conditional and functional enclosures out there,but the exos are hard to beat for overall viewing and accessability for me.

i have the 12"x18" for my baby ATB. I have a flouresent on top,an UTH, and mist once daily, ill try covering the top and see if that helps.