Hoping to make something welcomed, I am posting specs and pics of my enclosure, reserved for my new couple of garters, bought one week ago (btw, they just had their first meal, salmon chunks, and that is why they are not showing in the pics).

The idea is not mine, but rather from a fellow countryman who posted somewhere else his own enclosure project, taken from the Ikea furniture shop.

Basically you buy something from Ikea and apply some glass, or in my case, plexiglass (more expensive, but safer to handle), modify the structure a bit, and off you go.

The structure is this one here:
EXPEDIT Scaffale - bianco - IKEA

of course I have removed the inside shelves, added plexiglass back and front, with the necessary air vents.

What can't be seen in the pics is the top opening, with plexi cover, which allows a movable UV lamp to shine inside the cage.

Bottom is covered with expanded clay (not sure how to translate that, it goes under the namebrand of "vermiculite") moderately absorbant, very light, non dusty small spheres....snakes like it because they can burrow, and move it a bit if they apply to it, and I like it because I can remove excreta with a spoon, and the results are tidy and hodourless. A bit expensive, tho.

The plant is a pothos....the water container is from the same snake fair I attended and got the snakes from. Expensive, but good looking and efficient.

The enclosure totals about 170 liters, more or less 42 gallons, and the temp. gradient is from 24 C bottom front to 28-30 C top back, where the basking spot is. So far, the couple have explored it and pronounced of their liking.

Structure costs about 20 euro plus the plexiglass 50 euro (yes I know, here is expensive), fittings and stuff some 10 euro more.

In my country you get a 150 liters terrarium for about 200 euro, if you research diligently....

Comments are very welcome!
Best Regards
Pg






Apologies for these images quality, I need to work on that still, please bear with me!