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Time to build!
Ok.. this may be long guys!
First off, I am new to the forums :-)
I have 12 years experience of keeping different reptiles. I mostly care for snakes now. I currently keep BCI’s, Ball pythons, Dummerils boas, colubrids, carpet pythons and I’m just now getting into Burms.
I have been buying animal plastics and boaphiles for a while now. I am seeing how much money I’m wasting and how much of a better enclosure I can make myself. Not to mention the different ways I can customize them and make them hold heat and humidity even better.
So, I have been doing a ton of research to where my head feels like it’s going to pop. I know how these enclosures are made. I know everything from sealants, to screws to the tools needed and whatnot. HOWEVER.. I have hit 2 snags.
1) What hardwood plywood do you guys use? From research all the stuff sold in Lowe’s, Home Depot and menards is junk. I heard people talk about hardwood plywood made from Sepele and meranti. I hear this is the best? Or is it overrated?
2) My enclosures I was planing on stacking. So basically I was going to make all the enclosures out of 3/4” thick plywood. Will these be okay to stack?
All enclosures needed so far is going to be 6’x2’x2’
I also gave it a thought to try PVC myself. However, nobody seems to know where any of the major makers from Animal plastics to boaphile gets their material. CDPVC seems to be a ghost or covered up by another name they do not wish for us to know..
Anyway.. any help would be significantly appreciated!
-Jim
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