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My husband and I are in the (slow) process of building custom caging for our collection so that they are all stacked, organized, and pretty, instead of seeing shelves of mismatched tank and tub sizes scattered all over the room, lol.

A majority of the snake tanks (for the medium snakes, rainbows, womas, male blood, etc...) are going to be 2X4X2, and the smaller ones (foxes) will likely be 2X2X2.

I want to make sure that they all have plenty of stretching room, but I can't see giving the male ball the same sized cage as a female rainbow boa... Would a male do alright in a 2X2X2 enclosure, or is that going to be awkward for maintaining a temp gradient? Would he be more comfortable in a longer but narrower cage? He's currently close to outgrowing his 20 long.
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1.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boas Nico, Tally
1.1 Womas, Darwin and Emma
0.1 Pastel BCI, Hyacinth
1.0 Carpet X Diamond Python, Steve
1.0 Ball python, Stan (Rescue)
1.0 Blood python, Porthos
1.0 Hognose, Fang
1.1 Western Fox snakes, Thing 1 and Thing 2
1.0 Northern Blue Tongue, Jabbi
0.0.1 Red Tegu, Sushi
1.1 Mali Uromastyx, Ajani (rescue), Goober
0.0.1 Egyptian Uromastyx, Ahktep
1.0 Leopard gecko, Frank (rescue)
1.0 Red eared slider, Spunky (rescue)
1.0 African mud turtle, Francois the Tortois (rescue)
1.0 African bullfrog, Grendel
1.0 Husband (WC) who approves of my addiction

I would say if you could take that extra vertical foot and give it to him horizontally he would appreciate it the most.
e.g. 1' tall x 2' wide x 3' long instead.
I've rarely seen a BP make use of much vertical head space and 2 feet would mostly be a waste.
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Lincoln, NE
0.1 Pastel, 1.0 Pastel het Pied, 0.1 Pied, 0.1 Cinn, 1.0 Black Pewter, 1.0 Woma (hidden gene?), 0.1 Yellowbelly
2.0 Normals, 1.0 Thayeri, 0.1 Thayeri X Alterna, 0.1 crazy cat, 1.0 husband

I would cut the height of all the cages to about 16"-18"...rainbows don't use much vertical space once adults...neither do bloods. Not sure about womas or fox snakes, but far better to give more floor space than height for terrestrial snakes. It will also mean you can get another row or two of cages so more room to expand the collection.
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PHLdyPayne

I was thinking the same 1'x2'x3' for the ball. My nephews male comes over to my place during breeding season, over there he is in a big 3x3x3 vision cage with branches and other stuff to crawl on and be arboreal... he never uses any of them but loves his hide! once he hits the 32 quarts he never uses either hide I provide. Balls like it dark and tight (like a termite hole) lol

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Brian Hettinger
480 Pythons
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