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Housing options?

LindsayMarie

LindsayMarie

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I am acquiring 2 hatchling corns this weekend and plan to keep them in 2 seperate kritter keepers set on a heating pad, until they get a little bigger. Gives me a couple months to find permanent housing option for them and future corns. What are the different housing options and the pros and cons? Any and all help will be greatly appreciated. Pictures would also help alot! Thank you, Lindsay
 
For adults 20Gallon Long tanks are reccomended if you're going with tanks. This provides enough room to exercise and live comfortably. You can also go with an appropriate sized rack system which consists or rubbermaid or similar tubs going into custom fit shelves. The terrariums look nicer, but the racks allow you to keep more snakes. Which ever way you go, lots of hides and a good temp gradient is essential to the health of the animals.
 
What type of terrariums are best and less likely to have escapees? Same thing with the racks? If anyone has some links to some places that be great. Or to some pics. Thank you, LindsayMarie
 
I am new,about 3 weeks anyway,,to having a corn snake.When I read that a 20 long would be enough for an adult corn,,well I couldn't believe it.It just seems odd.When I see a full grown snake,say 5' or more,,I'm thinking around a 75 gal. should give the room to stretch out.If the snake wants to get a little "in house" exercise,well I just can't see that happening in a 20 gal. :eek1:
I have my snake in a 30 for now.He/she is only around 14",,but I have a good amount of things in there to close it in a little,for now.
 
I use wooden vivariums with sliding glass doors. To be honest I don't much like tubs... I have thought about using them simply because tanks take up a lot of room and are expensive, but I just don't think they are an ideal enviroment for the animal. And unless you breed your snakes, in which case tubbing is probably the only way to go with babies popping up everywhere, I think the animals should be seen and many tubs just don't offer great visibility. If you just want snakes as pets, I can't see any point at all in having a pet you can't see.

Finally, I also feel that tanks or vivariums just offer a more natural lifestyle for the snake... there is much more room for fake plants and branches for the snake to climb on. My snakes love climbing and are always hanging about on their vines; I don't see me getting any branches at all in to a snake tub. And while branches probably aren't essential to a snake's welfare, I want them to have the option of climbing if they so wish.

I'm not trying to bring down anyone who uses tubs - like I said, I have considered using them myself and may end up using them one day, especially if I do start breeding. Nor am I saying tubs are unsuitable for snakes, because lots of people here DO tub snakes which are very healthy. I just think that tubs are not as nice to use as a vivarium. There are pros and cons to both really and it comes down to what you want from your snakes. If you're after a cool pet, I would say get a vivarium or a tank.

Lindsay if you would like to see pictures of my vivariums, send me a PM and I'll happily show you the pictures. :)
 
I crossed over to the wonderful world of tubs a few months ago... I wouldn't look back. I have 2 glass vivs which I now regret buying for many reasons: space, extra expense, ease of snakes escaping and they are much harder to clean.

Tubs, IMO are the way to go for larger collections. I agree with pliss that if you are only going to have one or 2 snakes as pets then make them display animals! Splash out on viv decor and make them look real good.
 
A 20gallon long is a minimum, it's enough for the snake to live healthily, though bumping up to a 30 won't hurt the snake. There are a number of specially built snake terrariums avaliable online or from Exo Terra. You can also buy an aquarium and a screen top for it that locks down, these work fairly well, so long as it locks down rather then just using friction to hold it down. You could always build one out of wood yourself. Cheaper but a lot more work.
 
I use both 20L aquairiums and Rack systems. About ten of my snakes are housed in aquariums and the rest are in multiple racks. There is no way I could keep 40 snakes in my house if it werent for those wonderful rack systems. They are wired for heating ( though you still MUST get a thermostat to control them) , they are easy to clean and space saving, and the snakes seem more relaxed in them.

I get all my racks from Jason at www.jasons-jungle.com I now have gotten 6 racks from him and have no complaints at all.
 
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