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Isn't there something better than wood to use when building an enclosures? I like to mist.

you can use melamine. if you're going to mist make sure you seal the enclosure.
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-Chris

0.1 Licorice Stick Black Rat
1.0 Black Rat
0.1 Vietnamese Blue Beauty
1.0 Green Tree Python
0.1 Texas Bairds Rat

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Melamine, sintra (expanded pvc), HDPE, Shower board, hollow core doors.. Depends on what you want to do and how you want to do it.
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Randall L Turner Jr.
www.aircapitalconstrictors.com

Better than wood is a tough thing to identify. There are some many tradeoffs between cost, weight, appearance, and durability.

When I build a cage I start with what is suitable for the species at hand. Then I typically go in one direction - I try to make the cage either as light as possible, as attractive as possible, or as inexpensive as possible.

It's when you start trying to combine all three that things get tricky.

So let us know what species you're building for and what you want to accomplish with this cage. Is cost more important to you than weight, for example.
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Current snakes:

0.1 Gonyosoma oxycephala - (Silver/Yellow)

1.2 Gonyosoma oxycephala - (Green)

7.6 Gonyosoma janseni - (Black)

0.1 Gonyosoma janseni - (Black & Tan)

I have a ball python, columbian boa, bearded dragon, 2 leopard geckos, and a yellow ackie. I would like to house all of them in a nice looking display unit with lots viewing angles. I was going to use a backround scene on the back wall and have the sides and front be glass. The doors would be the whole front of each cage opening outward. I dont know what to do with the lghting. I dont want to spend too much but I want it to look good enough for my girlfriend to love

Sorry that I missed your reply.

Have that much viewing area and keeping it cheap might be doable.

You should probably use wood in this case. Basically make a series of frames with glass panel inserts. Then just assemble them like a regular cage.

There was a poster some months ago who built a Green Tree Python cage this way. It was nice.
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Current snakes:

0.1 Gonyosoma oxycephala - (Silver/Yellow)

1.2 Gonyosoma oxycephala - (Green)

7.6 Gonyosoma janseni - (Black)

0.1 Gonyosoma janseni - (Black & Tan)

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Tom
TCJ Herps
"The more people I meet, the more I like my snakes"