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I'm in the process of building a 6' wide, 2' deep, and 4' tall vivitarium for my Argentine Boa and I found a place here that has access to limestone and I would like to build a cave and a pond that are both removable out of these limestone pieces.

Is Limestone going to have any bad effects on my Argentine Boa?
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0.1 Argentine Boa (B.C.O.) 7'2"

Depends on the limestone, some are softer than others. If the lime stone is not in the water it will be just fine, if it is in the water its possible some of the lime could leech out of the stone changing the ph balance of the water, possibly harming the snake. Working with natural stone is going to look really nice, but I would recommend you design it in such a way as to eliminate the need to remove any stone when sevicing the cage. Either to change the water, cleanig the cage, or removing the snake from its enviroment. Trust me, if you have to mess around with heavy stones everytime you have to do something concerning the above listed issues, it will get old quick. Thereby possibly causing you to neclect certain issues concerning husbandry. With a snake of that size, I would also suggest you secure the stone well as the stone could easily be moved around by the snake. By the way I'm a mason and I know a little about stone. I also have a Argintine, mine is 4.5'. For me , i'm going w/ faux stone. Good luck, and some pics. would be apprediated. Clint

The pond probably won't be made with Limestone just the cage wich won't be getting wet. I'm also setting up a misting system to run at multiple times a day and I'm also going to put real plants in it. The reason I was asking is because I found a nersery here that has these Limestone fountains that they get from a guy in Ft Worth and he can make them any size I needed. I'm looking at getting one 8" by 8" by 2 feet tall and they drill a hole down the middle and a pump sits at the bottom and the water flows out the top of it and down the sides. I'll have to ask a little more about the stone when I go back to take a picture of them.

Here's a picture of my Argentine

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0.1 Argentine Boa (B.C.O.) 7'2"

Here's an awesome picture of her slithering across my livingroom floor!!!

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0.1 Argentine Boa (B.C.O.) 7'2"