we’re hoping to take inventory this weekend! we wanted to do it sooner but my wife and i have both been under the weather. 

So, I took a bunch of pictures for you, so you can see for yourself.

Lasso lives in a 4ft x 2ft x 5ft high Animal Plastics custom enclosure. Originally it was ordered for Slinky the rat snake, but he outgrew it, so we upgraded Lasso from her Exo Terra High Glass Terrarium, 36 by 18 by 36-Inch (which she inherited from Rocky when he got his large 8-footer cage… there’s a pattern there, good thing she has no idea, or she’d think we didn’t like her or something.)

Anyways, the “custom” part of this enclosure are the small set of doors on the bottom. Knowing Slinky (when he was young at least) we thought it would be safer to only open the small doors, so he wouldn’t just bolt. And he can be fast, let me tell ya. He mellowed out quite a bit, so now he has a cage with just two large doors.

Her downstairs neighbors are Coil, Makeba, and Leeloo (top to bottom). Each cage has its own thermostat attached to its back, so each snake can have the temperature that’s best for them.

Anyways, back to Lasso.

Here’s a panoramic picture of her ground level. I keep it cluttered for her, and I have found that paper products, like tissue boxes, and paper towel and TP rolls do great as enrichment, and if they get pooped on, no big loss. That “mayan” pyramid hide she got from Porthos when he grew out of it. Please don’t tell her!

The thing on the left is a corner litter box (sold for rabbits), which I filled with aspen for her to dig in. It’s her favorite hiding spot. Except when I was taking the picture, and she was elsewhere.

I put some hides in there for her, even though they’re too small for her now, but she likes hiding partially under them as she burrows; and then it’s all covered with a piece of astroturf for privacy. She’s all about privacy. If she had any money, she’d donate it to the EFF, I’m sure.

The backing is a fake stone veneer (made of urethane foam, can be bought online or at home improvement stores; while it’s not cheap, it’s quicker than if I made a whole custom backdrop, and much, much less messy).

This material was chosen to allow Slinky (who this was originally designed for) to climb on. Lasso also uses it for climbing, and since she’s a much smaller snake than Slinky, the ledges are outright easy for her to climb on.

Then there’s the branch, leading up to a magnetic cave. I carved out holes in the background and glued the magnets in, so I can take the cave down if it needs cleaning.

Both the branch and the fake rock hide came from her glass ExoTerra enclosure (and they were in there with Rocky, I had to finally take the cave away from him when he got so heavy that the cave fell off the glass).

Needless to say, everything that was passed between snakes was disinfected and cleaned before being given to another.

Yes, you can order a light to be included with the cage, they have fluorescent bulbs with an on/off switch on the housing, so you can simply reach into the cage and turn it on, eg when cleaning. Or you can have it on all the time and use a timer to power it if your snek needs a specific light cycle.

I have a whole tag about the AP Cages right here, talking about assembly and other stuff. It does help to have a second person, just to align the stuff when pieces are still just floating about.

Manufacturing quality is such that everything will fit tightly and precisely, like Legos. Holes pre-drilled, grooves cut precisely where they need to be, etc.