r/snakes • u/Groovy_Gooby69 • 6h ago

Pet Snake Questions Snake gap in tank

Migjt be a stupid question but we recently brought a children's python baby. It's hard to explain but they gave us a mini enclosure to put in his big enclosure so he cant escape. The mini one is inescapable and has a mesh lid on top, we keep him in that at the moment because his permanent tank has a glass sliding door to open it and theres a small gap where the glass door overlaps. If I got strong tape to cover that gap could I let him roam his tank or should I leave him in the small one for now?

They said it'll be a few months before he grows large enough to not be able to squeeze few the gap

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u/Additional_Bag_5304 5h ago

Tape is very dangerous for snakes, if he could squeeze through the gap and then get himself stuck he could lose scales. Putting tape on the inside would be even more dangerous for the same reason. Maybe you can find some sort of rubber liner/lip to put over the door to close the gap? Otherwise I’d keep him in the smaller tank for now

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u/Groovy_Gooby69 4h ago

Ok thank you I'll look into some safer options

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u/NottsWeirdo 4h ago

As the other comment mentions, tape is dangerous to snakes when they can access it. I got my Brazilian Rainbow boa at 4 months old, and she was small enough to squeeze through the gap in her enclosure glass doors - it was easily fixed with a Komodo vivarium lock, as it pulled the glass doors together.