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I posted this over on the cage design forums but figure you guys may appreciate it to.

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

That cage is a fantastic display-er for two spectacular display-ees. Very creative engineering, Nate.

Later, Jason

Nate, that's an awesome enclosure and the picture with you holding them realy shows how big those snakes are! Very cool!
Is it a pain to clean when they crap on the furnishings or do they go on the floor or water bowl?

If you can't tell I'm pretty proud of this monstrosity of a cage!

Bobby for the most part they poop on the ground but when they decide to unleash from above it is a real PITA to get it clean, the nice thing is with the doors as big as they are I can get to all of it.

Nate

Cool Nate! Just the thought of poop covering all the furnishings in there makes me shudder!

Nice work Nate! The sulphureus look like they are enjoying it too!

Those snakes are looking amazing too...wow!

Nate,

I really like your cage set up. You obviously put a lot of thought and effort into it.

Brian

It's good to see my efforts paying off, hopefully I see a nest box full of eggs eventually.