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My apologies if this comes across as a stupid question. I have been away from the herp hobby for an extended period of time due to health issues. I have an extensive knowledge of many herps and have kept pretty much everything in the past. I also successfully bred pythons (jungle carpets & Irian Jaya) and Indigos. I see not much has changed except for the 8 billion variants of ball pythons, lol. Anyway, back to my question.

I am wading back into the hobby along with my teen son. We have a specific area in the newly finished basement that accommodates two side by side 42"x2'x2' cages for breeding. See attached pic. My original idea was to keep a breeding pair of Woma. However now I am rethinking that the cage sizes will not be sufficient.

There will be a sliding breeder door between cages for that time of year. What other snakes could occupy those cages as both pets and a breeding project. I am of the mindset quality over quantity which led me to Womas. I would also like something that would be easy(r) to sell the babies. As a side note I already have an incubator and juvenile tub rack in storage.

Suggestions?

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Tim

1.1 Eastern Indigos
1.1 Leucistic Southern Pines
0.1 Mexican Black Kingsnake
1.0 Bearded Dragon

That is a nice cage, I like the connected-by-door setup.

I think womas are a great choice. Even Children's pythons if you like the smaller stuff.

Do you like boas? Sized-to-fit boas include Hog Island boas, T-positive Central American boas.

If the room stays relatively cool, then black milksnakes are awesome animals. One of those snakes that you do not appreciate until you hold one for the first time.

I'm actually thinking about opening up the middle section to make it more of one large cage. I've been looking into Ackie monitors. Possibly a male and 2 females. Will have a very large gradient and a nice long cage to run amuck.

Unfortunately after additional research and help from some ackie experts, this cage won't work for them. I just wonder if a single 4x2x2 is really enough for a Woma. I hate using bare minimum cage sizes for pythons. They look too cramped.

I wonder if there is anything I could keep together year round snake wise for this setup. Brain hurts thinking about it. I want a challenge but not a dime a dozen type snake or reptile where you can't even give the babies away. I've bred Indigos and Carpets with zero issues but I want something new and interesting.

That size cage would work well for Woma's or any of the other meter to 2 meter length Boa's or Python's.

I will urge you to fall in love with an animal via research and build an enclosure for that then to try and find one to fit the enclosure you have.

My logic is that if you develop a passion for an animal it will thrive more so than one that just fits. Particularly when combining your hobby with a youth. Kids now day's have a attention span of gnat, aside from texting...

I would defiantly take their passion into consideration, within reason.
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Jeremy Payne