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I built this cage recently out of materials from Lowes. It was only around 25.00 dollars for everything and is a pretty complete cage. They could even be stacked because the light is recessed into the cage.

The only downfall I can see is the combination of heat from the heat lamp and the newspaper substrate is gonna make it impossible to hold humidity, which might make shedding difficult. That and with milk snakes it'd be better to use belly heat or back heat instead of an overhead light. And some of those heat lamps get extremely hot, with how close that light is already to the snake in that cage I'd say if that's not a lamp you can control the temperature on then that's just an all around bad idea.
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Mike
KingPin Reptiles
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I was thinking the very same thing. Stacking those would also seem to be a fire/melting hazard too from what I can see.

It's definitely inexpensive, but compared to possibly replacing the snakes or your house,......probably not so much.

I am quite certain those would never be UL approved..

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

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Thanks for the input guys. I actually posted this in the milksnake section by accident, meant to put it in the cages section. It was not intended for milksnakes but rather maybe some small boas or pythons.