| Many if the people who make their own snake or | | | | they might construct a snake or other reptile cage to |
| other reptile cages adapt other designs or continue | | | | suit their needs. Then there are the other |
| to improve on the designs they have already used. | | | | requirements for reptile cages and care eg heat |
| When you adapt a cage design from basic plan you | | | | mats, basking lights, UV lights, misting systems, |
| can use it to make a reptile or snake cage to suit | | | | substrates, decorations such as artificial walls, artificial |
| your own needs. You may have a space that is not | | | | trees and branches, and how these can be made and |
| quite suitable for the size of the original design. You | | | | placed in the cage. |
| may want to adapt a half built cage, a closet or an | | | | The book also gives you valuable information about |
| old cupboard. You may want to make a specific | | | | construction techniques, making cages stronger and |
| length, height or width. You may have limited access | | | | some useful hints and tips. |
| to materials or you may have an existing stockpile of | | | | The original plans have been many individuals as a |
| materials that want to use. | | | | starting point for their cages and then adapted them |
| In all cases, it is important to have a clear idea of | | | | to suit their needs, materials and skills. |
| what you want the finished product to look like and | | | | You also find tha once you have started to make |
| how you are going to construct it. | | | | cages and adpat designs tat your building and design |
| Detailed plans can contain a lot of important | | | | skills improve substantially and you continue to make |
| information for building reptile cages, but you should | | | | and adapt your ideas. |
| remember they are not definitive. For example many | | | | Many people do not want to adapt the cages but |
| people who have used the "How to Build Reptile | | | | want to build them exactly as described. There is |
| Enclosures" book site have altered the plans, in some | | | | enough information to allow you to do that to. Either |
| cases quite significantly, to suit their needs and their | | | | way, a plan is an important part of the building |
| skills. | | | | process. |
| They all acknowledge the benefits of using the book | | | | The main thing is to have some fun building |
| as a launching point for their cage building. They also | | | | something for yourself and your pet (and save a bit |
| found it helped them think more carefully about how | | | | of money). |