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The cage for the pair of Pseustes got a couple upgrades recently. Much more greenery was added as well as well as another shelf closer to the heat source just in case they want it. I also figured out my latches to keep the doors closed. I fabricated the whole things myself because I couldn't find anything I liked.

The seals for the plastic to extrusion seem to be holding back the arboreal poo splatter pretty well and the whole cage is working very nicely. My only problem so far is a small lack of ventilation I plan to remedy this with a couple vents near the top of the cage that I can plug up during the evening hours to keep heat in.

Full cage:

The new basking shelf, this is kind of temporary just to see if the snakes use it:

The latches I made:

The gap in the connectors is from slightly oversized plastic pushing the frame out... I'm not going to worry about fixing it till the plastic is all scratched.

I also made these plastic plant holders out of torched PVC hot glued to the cage. These snakes have a way of climbing off everything and knocked all the zip-clips off every day:

The happy couple, They do seem to spend all their time together but I have yet to see signs of mating.

A couple of large colubrids:

Thanks for looking,
Nate

Woa, I didn’t realize how big the cage was until you stepped into the picture to give it some perspective! Very nice. I have searched online for those aluminum profiles and have not found them. I did find a catalog of all the connectors, parts and profiles from some European company, Marine Systems. Can you tip us to a link in the USA?

Your torched pcv is very nice looking, great little side detail.
For ventilation, you could hook up a small computer fan with a little 12 volt wall wart. Check out Mist King for a timer- they have one you can program to come on for seconds as well as minutes or hours. Pretty cool.

Nice set up for your healthy looking snakes, too!

Mist King timer link-
http://www.mistking.com/Seconds-Timer-p-16198.html

Yeah it's pretty large...lol
This is my display cage and I plan to make several more for my other Pseustes and Spilotes those cages will only be 4x2x4 instead of the 4x2x6 size.

I have thought seriously about using a fan instead of just adding more vents and may actually go that route, plus with a fan set up near the top it would force some of that warm air down.

My current temp gradient is 95-100 on the basking shelf, 90 on the sticks close to the top, 80-85 in the nesting box and 65-70 on the ground. I would like to see my ground temps more in the 70-80 range but all my other temps are pretty good IMO.

Nate