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Celestine8

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Hello! I just wanted to ask a question about racking systems because I plan on making herpetoculture a hobby and those racks looked like a good idea.... except for one thing. THE CAGES ARE SO TINY IN MOST!!!! Can a snake actually be happy in something the size of a Tim Horton's takeoutbox? What about climbing? Then again I've only seen boaphile systems and things very much like that. Has anybody made or seen caging systems that make room for many in a convenient way but have more sqaure cages than flat oblong rectangles? Any pics or input would be much appreciated. :D
 
You ask if a snake can be happy in a smaller enclosure in a rack system than it would in a larger enclosure. I think we need to define what happiness is for a snake. In my opinion, happiness in a snake is living in a healthy, stress-free environment. So we can judge a snakes happiness by measures of health and stress. In my experience, a good measure of a snakes health and lack of stress is if it will feed well, and not regurgitate meals, if it sheds properly, and if it is able to avoid common maladies (parasites, respiratory infections, etc.).

I believe you will find that snakes raised in temperature controlled rack systems are at least as healthy and stress free, if not more so, as their counterparts in the larger vivariums. So from a snakes perspective, the smaller enclosures, that offer more seclusion and well regulated temperature and humidity is the place where they are the happiest. Top that off with an easy meal when ever they are hungry. You would think that all of the wild corn snakes would be beating down our doors just for the chance to live in one of these palaces.
Mark
 
I agree...the care you put into maintaining a controlled environment will allow for the snake to live nice...

Size is not always important .... right!!!
 
Plus...

I've seen the photos online too, and to be perfectly honest, the boxes look smaller than they actually are. Once you see them in person, you realize that they aren't that small at all.
 
its not the size its how u use it.....

no any way, alot of cornsnakes dont actually climb, and would be perfectly happy in a rack. of you go on any rack website, you will see they offer a range of sizes, from hatchling sizes to upto 4ft
 
If you want to keep a sizable connection, then racks are going to be a necessary evil. Reptiles adapt, live and thrive under these conditions.

BTW, making your own racks is easily and much cheaper that buying them. Check out this thread Rack Systems
 
Thanks!! I was just slightly confused because I was on the boaphile website and the guy's trying to sell his racks but then goes back and says that he refuses to make them for his snakes because snakes or his snakes are 'better off' in a cage. I had to ask!
 
That's because "his snakes" are as big as your couch and couldn't be stuffed into a refrigerator box, much less a sweater box. ; (The Boaphile raises large BCCs and BCIs and not small colubrids)
 
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