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nice cage do you breed your snakes

I have a few questions about a wooden enclosure that I got off someone near my place today. It's 4ft 3in. in length, 18 inches deep and about 15-16 inches in height. I cleaned it up, took a damp cloth and wiped the outside down, vacuumed the inside (there was sand in there). On the top left side, there's a hole and on the right hand side, there's a rectangular meshed hole. It has two doors that open upward, in the front of the tank. This is all made of wood and mesh...cheap mesh. The whole enclosure though isn't heavy in weight.

These are my questions:

Can I house my adult spotted python and the sub-adult ball python in the same enclosure? What about when the ball python gets big? Except for when feeding them, would it be safe to house them both in one big enclosure?

How do I go about disinfecting this enclosure before I use it? Is an all-glass enclosure a better bet to house snakes in?

What are my heating options? I plan to use indoor-outdoor carpet as substrate. I was thinking of attaching two heating pads underneath the left side, coupled with a 150 Watt heat emitter that I already have. Since it is a big enclosure, I was thinking this would be more than sufficient.

Well i do not see a problem with putting the in the same cage as long as they are about the same size, but you must seperate them when feeding, given the cage is big enough. These cages are 48"x20"x20" and made out of 3/4" ply wood lined on the inside with showerboard, sliding glass fronts, there is a 2' piece of heat tape for each cage hooked up to a helix, that is more then enough heat. Cleaning out the cages I use a mild bleach solution and let dry well, the indoor/outdor carpet works well with newspaper under it. If you have any other questions about the building of cages or yours feel free to email me, Subject: reptile cages.
repkepr@swbell.net

Breeding: het. and albino boas, ball pythons, green tree pythons, and eyelash vipers.

Are you going to put anything in those tanks? It's pretty dull looking on the inside, but I like the structure.