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Vertical enclosure for large adult

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5280snake

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I am a first time snake owner and last night we adopted an 8 year old male, 5'5" (168cm) long handsome guy to our household. His original owner had a DIY enclosure made from a display curio cabinet. With daily exercise/handling outside of his enclosure will this cabinet be OK for his long term well-being? The hexagon interior dimensions are 25" (61cm) and 72" (182cm) tall.

Or should we replace with horizontal enclosures, such as the Exo-Terra Glass Terrariums. Perhaps one of:
Large-Tall 36"L x 18"W x 24"H (67 gal)
Large-Wide 36"L x 18"W x 18"H (50 gal)

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Additional notes of his current enclosure.
We have ordered UTH and thermostat which should arrive soon. The top light UVB reptile light we plan to leave on in "dusk" hours for about 3 hours. The ventilation was achieved with one pane of glass removed and replaced with screening.
 

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Congrats on your new corn and welcome to the forum.
I think you should change it for a horizontal tank. Corns are semi-arboreal, they climb if given the option, but they don't live in a tree (you can still reuse that branch on a horizontal tank to give it some climbing space). Also, they are not a static like GTP (even this would be bad for a GTP), they like to burrow and cruise around.
A 170cm snake can't even stretch out in there. Does it really fit in there even curled up?
To give you the idea, if just ONE of the tank sizes should be 60-90cm while the other should be around 30-50cm, the total base of the tank I describe as recommended is much bigger than the one you have.
No need to be an ExoTerra. In the USA you have other options and a wide variety of materials. Other USA members can give a better counsel about this than me, but I would give snakey a nice horizontal long tank to stretch out.
Can't see the snake in there. It would be nice to introduce it with some pics :)
 
sleeping inside view

Thank you! Today is his first day at home so we don't want to disturb him very much. He is sleeping currently. I pulled back the greenery and this is the best image I can manage at the moment. He has burrowed half under the hide area. He has extended to the back wall and then doubled up so that his head is now faced back towards the front of the tank. Is face is peeking out behind the blue 6" ruler which I placed as visual reference.
 

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I can see the image. If you want to embed it on the post you can upload it somewhere like public dropbox, tinypic or some place like that, and then insert the link that ends in .jpg or .png between the tags
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Well, the base area is definitely bigger than it seemed, but I still think horizontal space could be put to a better use than the vertical one you have there.
 
Thank you mishima25 for the advice which helped us to better care for our new friend. He is enjoying his evening exploring a 40B gallon Zilla critter cage. Room to stretch. :)

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The curio was a neat idea but not right for a corn. Glad you've got him in a better home. He's a nice looking snake, is he an Alabama? ( I'm not great at the wild types and my iPad doesn't do color well in the dark)
 
I am just learning myself; until you suggested Alabama I thought perhaps he was a Okeetee morph. Yes, he looks more like an Alabama when I compared to images found on the web. I cannot claim that owning a snake was a planned event and I neglected to ask the owner that question.
We are loving this experience. The whole family is fascinated and always eager to interact with him in the evenings. The new enclosure definitely allows a lot more room to create natural habitat hide scenes as well. What a fun way to be creative and to see how he will be found sleeping in the morning when we get up for breakfast.
 
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