I will take you some pictueres of my setup. It's actually a room built onto my house in north florida. It's completely screened in with concrete floors, complete with drains incase she overflows her waterbowl, it also works great for when I clean the floors. Outside enclosures work great for these large snakes provided a couple of things. 1. it's warm enough all year round to keep the snake outside, if not, please have a backup tank with all the neccessary equipment to house a large anaconda inside. =) 2. it's kept VERY clean. Anacondas are one of the boas more subseptable to mouthrot, and other parasites, especially if it's WC. There's a few pictures of Akasha right now online one on this forum, and she is only about 7' now.. why is her cage the size of a living room do you ask? Well, if you buy enclosures to suite their size for the time being, in six months to a year you will have to buy another one. sometimes earlier for younger species as they grow faster. a nice 55 gallon aquarium with a sturdy water dish, hide box, and I personally use a zoo med undertank heater under part of the tank, and use DRY cypress bark, it's very attractive and won't harm the snake. Branches are great for young anacondas, I had one going over the dish so she could just climb up and check things out whenever she wanted. that and I used to put the thawd rats on it over her dish. hehe. Anacondas like the moisture, but they can also get scale rot which is not uncommon for green anacondas. A little bit of iodine, and a nice warm environment with access to a water bowl would be perfect. Let me know if I left anything out. How are all of you caging your anacondas??? I would love some new ideas.
James
