Hello, your finished enclosure is amazing! The amount of thought you put into the setup clearly shows, and it is also a very creative enclosure. It makes me want to build more interesting enclosures for my reptiles, so thank you for the video! Oddly, I wanted to tell you that I got accepted to go to The Ohio State University next year! I plan to major in zoology and then, pursue veterinary science. You have been a huge inspiration for me because you make amazing videos, and you are a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine. Thank you for making your videos and sharing your knowledge!
Absolutely amazing. Think I’m going to build one just like it for my Boa Constrictor. Only thing I’d do differently is to add a door to hide the tub on the end. Excellent work. Thank you for sharing. 🙌🙌
Thanks! Two suggestions if you're going to do a similar build: 1) I'd probably make the tub slide out the front, especially if you're going to make a door to hide it. I wanted it on the side but the front is a lot more practical, and doing it over I'd probably build it for front access 2) For a boa, I'd consider adding more vertical space, and I'd recommend planning an elevated hide. The light compartment gets very hot and doing a vertical heat gradient is easier than trying to project warmth down into the enclosure. My BP is old and arthritic so I didn't want him to have to climb very much, but with a younger, healthy, arboreal snake you could set up a lot of a really cool configurations
@@ConnorLongDVM Thank you, those are great considerations. I will definitely take your advice. I appreciate you sharing your knowledge and experience. Love your channel. Merry Christmas 🎄
Hey Conner, This part 2 is very good. I think this will open peoples minds and create a great I habitat for ball pythons 🐍. Thank you for sharing. 👊✊👊🐍🐢🦎🐟
Fantastic job!! You have truly made a living piece of art in your home. I hope a create something as beautiful as yours when I finally get to build my BP’s forever home.
I’m happy for Snake😊 I've been using Arcadias Deep Heat Projector with my balls as a night heat source. They come out and bask every single night. They definitely changed their behavior after I provided them with CHE. I highly recommend DHP over CHE. I hook up my dhp to my herpstat 4 with no problems.
Interesting- thanks for the comment. The Snake does come out at night when the lights are off, I just don’t consider that basking. The Arcadia DHP was one of the heat sources I trialed initially with this setup and it just didn’t work very well for me - it seemed very similar to the CHE in output and then burned out within a few days. I may give it another shot if the CHE is struggling once it cools off. The heatwave in my area has been so bad this summer that keeping everything hot enough has not been an issue for the past 2-3 months.
Great job with some original features, thanks for sharing! Also nice to see an example of a BP at this nice age because usually we can see hatchlings or juveniles. Your one looks like a youngster, nice contrast colors 😃 In regards to basking (or rather no basking) and activity pattern, my young female behaves absolutely the same. No basking, moving between hides or ambush position in the dark part during the day, active after "sun set". Good luck and many more happy years for your BP.
Thank you for the information. I have one hardy ball python yearling who is doing well but recently I rescued an adult. He was living in the most putrid cage I've ever witnessed with zero humidity and only a regular light bulb as heat. Yet seemed okay but missed 2 meals. I cleaned his cage thoroughly. And put new clean reptichip in and THEN he gets scale rot. How he didn't get it in that rotten cage with 50+ separate poos but then gets it within a week in a clean cage with proper heat and humidity! So I'm thinking after it clears up, we are going to go to bioactive for both. Your build was AMAZING! I absolutely love my snakes and want them to have the best lives. Your information is great. Thank you.
A year later I am finding this video and I believe it is still the best enclosure video I have seen on a ball python. I tip my hat to you sir. The work you have put into making sure your friend has the best possible experience is admirable.
Absolutely love this video. So informative and detailed. The amount of thought and consideration that went into this vivarium makes this video so wholesome and even more enjoyable to watch. Thank you!
Came across your channel on a recommendation for someone else in a Facebook group. This is an amazing build! I have seen that this is the last video posted about 7 months ago. I hope all is well and I hope you continue to post more content regularly. I'm not sure you'll even see this message due to how long ago this vid was posted. You are an incredibly talented and caring individual. Your design and build quality is up there with Serpa Design..another channel if not familiar.
I agree with you, I'm specifically commenting on it because there's an odd trend on reptile related social media recently where primarily nocturnal species have been declared "crepuscular", and then where the newly "crepuscular" species get declared "cathemeral" and then you get a contingent of folks who think that these species are all basically diurnal baskers.
Your skill level of your reptiles is outstanding! Even your intro really adds a lot of personality. Great videos definitely gotta subscribe. Just a few tweaks to my own liking. It’s hard not to notice how plain as day it is to see you reading a script you no doubt wrote your self. I just feel it would add to your channel if your personality was able to come out through the video along with your knowledge. I hope as always this is not taken personally. It’s truly a compliment to your knowledge and personality and would just like to simply see more of it. 🎉😅 keep up the great work. I’ll subscribe and get caught up on your journey. Thanks
Thanks for the comment! Extemporaneous presentations can certainly be more natural, but they can be very challenging when presenting technical information. The unfortunate reality is I just don't have the time to make this videos in a way where I am not reading from a script (and the lack of recent posts is reflective of the fact I barely have time to make them when I am reading from a script). Since I'm just making these for fun and to be helpful to fellow hobbyists I'm comfortable with my presentation style.
Amazing videos. Incorporating some of your design into my builds. One question, how did you run the cords through the enclosure for the temp probes on the hides/basking spots?
I have drilled ventilation holes with a hole saw into the back of the light compartment to threat the cords inside and then enlarged the holes in the mesh that separates the light compartment from the enclosure so I could fit the probes through those
This is the best, I love love all the educated info. I also have an older ball, more little aged currently. Fantastic enclosure, my 1 question, the water bowl, doesn't your ball like to fully submerge? Mine takes a bath like every 3 months. Swims a little blows his nose underwater. Again thank you
My python doesn't really soak unless the heat is excessive and he's trying to cool off, or if the humidity is too low and he's going into shed, and I have both parameters really carefully dialed in for this setup. He used to soak in his original sterile setup, but I think that's just because it would get too dry. The first bioactive enclosure I made for him before this build (I have videos of it on my channel) had a tub for him to submerge in, but after 18 months of him not using it I just decided to leave it out in this version.
I believe it was Home Depot but it might have been Lowe’s. It has worked very well, I would recommend it as a building material for snake enclosures (might be a bit too porous for insect eating species)
stainless steel wire - I cut it and bend it to make a little horseshoe shaped staple that can be pressed into the backdrop. Creeping plants will generally affix themselves eventually so as they grow you probably won't need to add more unless you're trying to shape the growth.
I will do spot cleaning as needed to remove urates, fecal material, and shed skins. The vivarium is bioactive so disinfecting or full replacement of the substrate is unnecessary. I do partial replacement of the substrate in the tub once in a while, but I have bioactive organisms there as well.
@ConnorLongDVM sorry, i did see you said dry lock. Dont get that where i live, though. I would like to find an alternative that may be available here. So what is dry lock?
Thanks to your altruistic narcissism, I discovered the hybrid vivarium. Very interesting. I am planning for the vivarium upgrade for my Brazilian Rainbow Boa that had a growth spurt the last 3 months (13 months old today) and its always great to see more ideas.
Thanks for the feedback! This setup has worked very well, though if I was doing it again I'd have the rack tub slide out from the front instead of the sides probably
Lots of folks are claiming they aren't a nocturnal species these days. In my experience with this particular animal he does not like coming out when the lights are on. Not even partial exposure.
Talent and heart. Your old snake is very lucky to have you as his friend.
Thank you!
This is by far the best snake enclosure build I've seen 👏🏻
This is great! Got lots of great ideas from this. I think future videos of your experience with aging snake would be a great idea.
Hello, your finished enclosure is amazing! The amount of thought you put into the setup clearly shows, and it is also a very creative enclosure. It makes me want to build more interesting enclosures for my reptiles, so thank you for the video!
Oddly, I wanted to tell you that I got accepted to go to The Ohio State University next year! I plan to major in zoology and then, pursue veterinary science. You have been a huge inspiration for me because you make amazing videos, and you are a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine. Thank you for making your videos and sharing your knowledge!
Fantastic enclosure Dr. Long! Glad to hear the bp is doing well
Amazing! Thank you for recording your whole process. This was very helpful and I can’t wait to build my own .
Absolutely amazing. Think I’m going to build one just like it for my Boa Constrictor. Only thing I’d do differently is to add a door to hide the tub on the end. Excellent work. Thank you for sharing. 🙌🙌
Thanks! Two suggestions if you're going to do a similar build: 1) I'd probably make the tub slide out the front, especially if you're going to make a door to hide it. I wanted it on the side but the front is a lot more practical, and doing it over I'd probably build it for front access 2) For a boa, I'd consider adding more vertical space, and I'd recommend planning an elevated hide. The light compartment gets very hot and doing a vertical heat gradient is easier than trying to project warmth down into the enclosure. My BP is old and arthritic so I didn't want him to have to climb very much, but with a younger, healthy, arboreal snake you could set up a lot of a really cool configurations
@@ConnorLongDVM Thank you, those are great considerations. I will definitely take your advice. I appreciate you sharing your knowledge and experience. Love your channel. Merry Christmas 🎄
The tub underneath is an excellent idea!
Hey Conner,
This part 2 is very good.
I think this will open peoples minds and create a great I habitat for ball pythons 🐍.
Thank you for sharing.
👊✊👊🐍🐢🦎🐟
Fantastic job!! You have truly made a living piece of art in your home. I hope a create something as beautiful as yours when I finally get to build my BP’s forever home.
thank you!
I’m happy for Snake😊 I've been using Arcadias Deep Heat Projector with my balls as a night heat source. They come out and bask every single night. They definitely changed their behavior after I provided them with CHE. I highly recommend DHP over CHE. I hook up my dhp to my herpstat 4 with no problems.
Interesting- thanks for the comment. The Snake does come out at night when the lights are off, I just don’t consider that basking.
The Arcadia DHP was one of the heat sources I trialed initially with this setup and it just didn’t work very well for me - it seemed very similar to the CHE in output and then burned out within a few days. I may give it another shot if the CHE is struggling once it cools off. The heatwave in my area has been so bad this summer that keeping everything hot enough has not been an issue for the past 2-3 months.
Your doing good work always a pleasure watching your videos. Thanks for the link on the sand with glue tip, I've never heard of it before this vid.
It works pretty well - weighs a lot, but that can help to keep everything in place if designed appropriately.
Great job with some original features, thanks for sharing! Also nice to see an example of a BP at this nice age because usually we can see hatchlings or juveniles. Your one looks like a youngster, nice contrast colors 😃 In regards to basking (or rather no basking) and activity pattern, my young female behaves absolutely the same. No basking, moving between hides or ambush position in the dark part during the day, active after "sun set". Good luck and many more happy years for your BP.
Wow. Amazing attention to detail. Beautiful. Form follows function.
Love your work and the running apocalypse theme!
I think it's really PG&E's apocalypse thema at this stage, but thank you!
Thank you for the information. I have one hardy ball python yearling who is doing well but recently I rescued an adult. He was living in the most putrid cage I've ever witnessed with zero humidity and only a regular light bulb as heat. Yet seemed okay but missed 2 meals. I cleaned his cage thoroughly. And put new clean reptichip in and THEN he gets scale rot. How he didn't get it in that rotten cage with 50+ separate poos but then gets it within a week in a clean cage with proper heat and humidity! So I'm thinking after it clears up, we are going to go to bioactive for both. Your build was AMAZING! I absolutely love my snakes and want them to have the best lives. Your information is great. Thank you.
These videos make me want to create a bioactive enclosure for my future ball python.
A year later I am finding this video and I believe it is still the best enclosure video I have seen on a ball python. I tip my hat to you sir. The work you have put into making sure your friend has the best possible experience is admirable.
Thank you for all the effort in making this video and sharing your knowledge. I can't wait to start on an enclosure like this!
Thank you!
Beautiful. And?well thought out.
thank you!
really awesome job again man. a lot of really nice vivarium building techniques here.
thank you!
Absolutely love this video. So informative and detailed. The amount of thought and consideration that went into this vivarium makes this video so wholesome and even more enjoyable to watch. Thank you!
Just want to remind you this stuff is great! I love the level of expert knowledge you bring alongside your craftsmanship!
Love this! The personality and innovation are inspiring!
Came across your channel on a recommendation for someone else in a Facebook group. This is an amazing build! I have seen that this is the last video posted about 7 months ago. I hope all is well and I hope you continue to post more content regularly. I'm not sure you'll even see this message due to how long ago this vid was posted. You are an incredibly talented and caring individual. Your design and build quality is up there with Serpa Design..another channel if not familiar.
Thanks I appreciate it
Thats a lovely enclosure.
Beautiful enclosure! I’m honestly more inspired now to upgrade my snake’s home even more
You got skill man👍Wonderful work.👏👏👏
Really Cool, like seriously ! That is awesome!
A castle fit for a King 🥺❤️
Damn this is next level build. Love it.
All Ball Pythons are more active at night.
A hiding Ball is a happy Ball.
I agree with you, I'm specifically commenting on it because there's an odd trend on reptile related social media recently where primarily nocturnal species have been declared "crepuscular", and then where the newly "crepuscular" species get declared "cathemeral" and then you get a contingent of folks who think that these species are all basically diurnal baskers.
Your skill level of your reptiles is outstanding! Even your intro really adds a lot of personality. Great videos definitely gotta subscribe. Just a few tweaks to my own liking. It’s hard not to notice how plain as day it is to see you reading a script you no doubt wrote your self. I just feel it would add to your channel if your personality was able to come out through the video along with your knowledge. I hope as always this is not taken personally. It’s truly a compliment to your knowledge and personality and would just like to simply see more of it. 🎉😅 keep up the great work. I’ll subscribe and get caught up on your journey. Thanks
Thanks for the comment! Extemporaneous presentations can certainly be more natural, but they can be very challenging when presenting technical information. The unfortunate reality is I just don't have the time to make this videos in a way where I am not reading from a script (and the lack of recent posts is reflective of the fact I barely have time to make them when I am reading from a script). Since I'm just making these for fun and to be helpful to fellow hobbyists I'm comfortable with my presentation style.
Altruistic Narcissism 😂 stealing that 😂
I want mine to look like this one day
Amazing videos. Incorporating some of your design into my builds. One question, how did you run the cords through the enclosure for the temp probes on the hides/basking spots?
I have drilled ventilation holes with a hole saw into the back of the light compartment to threat the cords inside and then enlarged the holes in the mesh that separates the light compartment from the enclosure so I could fit the probes through those
This is the best, I love love all the educated info. I also have an older ball, more little aged currently. Fantastic enclosure, my 1 question, the water bowl, doesn't your ball like to fully submerge? Mine takes a bath like every 3 months.
Swims a little blows his nose underwater.
Again thank you
My python doesn't really soak unless the heat is excessive and he's trying to cool off, or if the humidity is too low and he's going into shed, and I have both parameters really carefully dialed in for this setup. He used to soak in his original sterile setup, but I think that's just because it would get too dry.
The first bioactive enclosure I made for him before this build (I have videos of it on my channel) had a tub for him to submerge in, but after 18 months of him not using it I just decided to leave it out in this version.
This is amazing! where did you get the mesh for the light box area?
I believe it was Home Depot but it might have been Lowe’s. It has worked very well, I would recommend it as a building material for snake enclosures (might be a bit too porous for insect eating species)
Omg
Beautiful! I may have just missed you giving this information, but what did you use to attach the Creeping Fig to the background?
stainless steel wire - I cut it and bend it to make a little horseshoe shaped staple that can be pressed into the backdrop. Creeping plants will generally affix themselves eventually so as they grow you probably won't need to add more unless you're trying to shape the growth.
How did you heat the tub/hide, love the idea of a area that is easier to keep humidity up
It uses normal heat tape on a thermostat like an old-school rack system. The Snake uses it mostly when he’s going into shed now.
This is one of the best BP enclosures I’ve seen! Great job
What substrate are you using and the normal/wild type ball pythons are more beautiful than those ugly morphs.
I’m using ABG mix mostly for the plants and then coco chips on top of that for the substrate The Snake is actually in contact with
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I want to make something like this for my boa constrictor, yet how does one clean it? Also doesn’t the wood bark get moldy over time?
A bioactive vivarium is largely self cleaning due to plants and detritivores (isopods and springtails) that live within it
Prosím jakým stylem se vivárium čistí?
I will do spot cleaning as needed to remove urates, fecal material, and shed skins. The vivarium is bioactive so disinfecting or full replacement of the substrate is unnecessary.
I do partial replacement of the substrate in the tub once in a while, but I have bioactive organisms there as well.
What did you seal the insulation foam board with?
“Tell me you didn’t make it three minutes into the video without saying you didn’t make it three minutes into the video” haha
The exact products are at 2:33
@ConnorLongDVM sorry, i did see you said dry lock. Dont get that where i live, though. I would like to find an alternative that may be available here. So what is dry lock?
Utah has the same problem
Wildfires, heat, or both?
@@ConnorLongDVM Wildfires, heat, drought all of the above
@@herpetologytime No escape for the West I guess. I think in the coming years I am going to switch to keeping arid dwelling species
Why would you ever live in california when Texas or Florida exist
Lol, agreed! (From a Florida transplant)
Thanks to your altruistic narcissism, I discovered the hybrid vivarium. Very interesting. I am planning for the vivarium upgrade for my Brazilian Rainbow Boa that had a growth spurt the last 3 months (13 months old today) and its always great to see more ideas.
Thanks for the feedback! This setup has worked very well, though if I was doing it again I'd have the rack tub slide out from the front instead of the sides probably
Well they are nocturnal animals so yes at night they’ll feed better and be more active
Lots of folks are claiming they aren't a nocturnal species these days. In my experience with this particular animal he does not like coming out when the lights are on. Not even partial exposure.
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Beautiful enclosure! Building a Vivarium soon and I’m happy I stumbled on your video