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Purchased an iguana cage with lots of extras (4 heat lamps with bulbs, thermometers, hydrometers, rocks, branches, power strip, heater) for $100.

Then I went to work replacing the lid (too many open holes where my snake could escape) and painting it.

After several coats of paint, inside and out, screen, a new lid, polyurethane on the inside, and a week for the fumes to clear out the cage is finally ready.

I'm currently working on a hide box and water dish combo that will hopefully be too heavy for him to flip over.

The cage is 72x48x26 and has 30 windows and the tenant is a 6'6" WC tame Texas Rat.
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1.0.0 Great Plains Ratsnake
1.0.0 Corn, Lavender Aztec het for Amel
0.1.0 Black Ratsnake
0.0.1 Texas Rat (tame)
1.0.0 Broad Banded Water Snake, Hypo
1.0.0 Black Bassador Retriever
2.1.0 Godchildren, 1 Evil, 2 possible hets

Wow, sweet cage. Nice snake, too.
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Mark

Thanks.
Blackbeard sure seems to like it as well.
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1.0.0 Great Plains Ratsnake
1.0.0 Corn, Lavender Aztec het for Amel
0.1.0 Black Ratsnake
0.0.1 Texas Rat (tame)
1.0.0 Broad Banded Water Snake, Hypo
1.0.0 Black Bassador Retriever
2.1.0 Godchildren, 1 Evil, 2 possible hets

I really like the look the mullions give that cage. Looks good.
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Currently keeping:

6.10 Gonyosoma oxycephala (Javan, mixed colors)

1.1 Philodryas baroni

1.0 Rhodesian Ridgeback

masking those things prior to painting was fun.
30 windows X 4 edges X 2 sides = 50,000 hours of taping.
but it was worth it.
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1.0.0 Great Plains Ratsnake
1.0.0 Corn, Lavender Aztec het for Amel
0.1.0 Black Ratsnake
0.0.1 Texas Rat (tame)
1.0.0 Broad Banded Water Snake, Hypo
1.0.0 Black Bassador Retriever
2.1.0 Godchildren, 1 Evil, 2 possible hets

... x 2 sides

At first glance I did not notice that the mullions were both inside and outside the cage. I guess I assumed they were the aesthetic type which only go on one side.

That must have been a lot of work.
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Currently keeping:

6.10 Gonyosoma oxycephala (Javan, mixed colors)

1.1 Philodryas baroni

1.0 Rhodesian Ridgeback

That is an awesome cage. And a cool snake too.

You gotta do something about the newspaper and stick though. With all that space you could fit a ton of cool stuff in there.

Dude, this particular snake is known for wrecking cages. I can't wait to see what it does to decorations. Maybe some cinderblocks!
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1.1.0 Hondurans Het Amel
1.1.0 Hondurans Anery, Het Hypo
0.1.0 Honduran Hypo
0.2.0 Pueblans
1.0.0 Pueblan Hypo
1.0.0 Thayeri MSP
0.0.1 GBK Blair's Phase
1.0.0 California King
0.1.0 California King Blue-eyed Blond
0.0.1 Speckled King WC
0.0.1 Jungle Carpet
0.1.0 Ball, Normal
0.0.1 Sulcata
0.1.0 Girlfriend, Caucasius Mexicana, Fiancee Phase

yeah, Blackbeard wrecks everything. He couldn't do more damage if he had hands. I think he has snake riots when I'm not looking.
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1.0.0 Great Plains Ratsnake
1.0.0 Corn, Lavender Aztec het for Amel
0.1.0 Black Ratsnake
0.0.1 Texas Rat (tame)
1.0.0 Broad Banded Water Snake, Hypo
1.0.0 Black Bassador Retriever
2.1.0 Godchildren, 1 Evil, 2 possible hets

yeah, I'm working on that
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1.0.0 Great Plains Ratsnake
1.0.0 Corn, Lavender Aztec het for Amel
0.1.0 Black Ratsnake
0.0.1 Texas Rat (tame)
1.0.0 Broad Banded Water Snake, Hypo
1.0.0 Black Bassador Retriever
2.1.0 Godchildren, 1 Evil, 2 possible hets