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Ok... brain storming time...

I'd like to make a corner cage with some left over wood I have from making my latest enclosures...

attached is a rough "foot print" of the cage itself...

My question to all the GTP and other such arboreal type snake owners, I know the recommended sizes for adult enclosures vary, the standard seems to be close to 36x24x24... would this work as the foot print for the cage?

I'm looking at making it at least three feet tall...

Input is welcomed as always...

I don't think I'd keep an adult GTP in it, alot of unusuable space toward the corners for a larger bodied animal. Something with that space available I'd be more inclined to use for smaller species, like Amazon Tree Boas (being the largest) but even more so lean toward maybe using it for geckos that can make use of all of the space.
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Randall L Turner Jr.
Boas make the world go round.

Thanks for the input. I'll look into putting something smaller inside...

Ok... went back to the drawing board, looked over my left over wood... I can make this foot print happen as well with what I have laying around...

Basically, modelled it after a corner fish tank that I have in my house, the front most part of the tank would have a 1/4 inch piece of glass with two glas doors on either side... the width dimensions ( I listed 24 - 26 inches as a guess ) are completely flexible by the way...

Still just tossing ideas up in the air and seeing how they land...

thoughts?

That would work much better, the added space should work well for a Green Tree.
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Randall L Turner Jr.
Boas make the world go round.

>>Ok... went back to the drawing board, looked over my left over wood... I can make this foot print happen as well with what I have laying around...

This is just my opinion, but its best not to design enclosures around scrap wood you have laying around. In the end you end up with something not as nice as you would have liked had the wood been a bit more.

However, when building enclosures accounting for the scrap and adjusting the primary build to yeild scrap for a second project is a great idea.

Using the same premise, one should never build a cage and than pick an animal to go into it. rather pick and animal and build the enclosure to meet that animals needs.

Your first concept will never see a practical use. First it has wasted space and then where is one ever going to pot a corner enclosure without adjacent enclosures on either side.

Agian just my opinion, you second design has far mor merit as an enclosure.

Cheers
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Jeremy

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Well, my left over wood is still in sizes large enough to build what everyone I've talked to in the GTP world ( 36 x 24 x 24) for an adult enclosure, but I've wanted to build a corner display grade enclosure for some time now... and a GTP just was the first animal for me to brain storm to see if it would work out for one. By no means am I dead set on putting a GTP into this enclosure. If it doesn't fit, it doesn't fit, not going to force an animal to be in a unhealthy living environment just because I wanted a particular animal in that cage. Thanks as always for your input though Jeremy...

Karl