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Anyone who has sliding doors on their vivariam please read this question!

I have had substatially sized YEARLINGS escape through this kind of door, thus why I gave them away. NEVER again will I use these vivs. Unsightly tape solves the problem but it becomes a real pain in the bum everytime you have to open up the viv.
 
young snakes can usually easy get between the sliding glass... adult snakes are a different story so long as they are locked.
 
I have been using sliding doors for some time, including housing a small snake in one of them, and I've never had any problems. Maybe I've just been lucky, but I love sliding doors and will use them for my future snakes. I have kept a snake in a tank which opened from the lid, and to be honest I hated it. IMO sliding doors are better.

I do have locks on my doors though, as without them the doors do run very easily and I was concerned that my big python in particular would be able to open the doors.
 
I have also never had a problem with young or old snakes. Just make sure they cant escape anywhere else.....
 
Very uncommon, but I did once have a Sinaloan who managed to work out how to brace himself and slide the door open. A rubber door wedge (costing pennies) sorted him out.

I now use rubber wedges in all my sliding door vivs. Not only does it prevent rogue snakey escape activity, but it gives me a quick visual check that the doors are properly closed after I've finished with them. A quick scan shows me the edges of the doors are in the correct position. No wedge means it has either dropped out and the door is loose, or I've somehow forgotten to close up properly.
 
YES they bloody well can escape! I've only had one that did, but it was a diffused lav het hypo. I was less than thrilled. When I caught him I put him back, and used tape to seal it up tightly. I checked on him 20 minutes later and guess what? ESCAPED AGAIN! So fast-forward 2 weeks and yes, by the grace of God I found him yet again. (Or rather my cat did, but he was unharmed). So, having learned my lesson he went into a sweaterbox, where he will remain until he has the girth of a boa and can no longer even think about sweezing between the glass.
Don't think about putting your snake into a viv with front sliding glass until they are MIN 70grams.
Or be prepared to be kicking yourself for a very long time...
I forgot to include that it did have a lock on it both times, that doesn't make a difference when they can get b/w the glass. It does prevent them from sliding it open when they are bigger though.
 
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I have noticed a couple of things since I got a sliding top tank. The first is that you need to make sure the top is in its right place, because sometimes it can be resting on top, and when you shut the top it will feel normal and latch, but it still will be able to be pushed up. Second, Velcro on both sides is quick and inexpensive way to tightly secure the lid.
 
Don't know if it helps, but I use food size as a guide. I keep mine in the largest Geoflat-type containers until they start on small mice.

Any Corn large enough to keep a small mouse down, stands no chance of being able to squeeze between overlapping glass doors.

Besides which, once they start on "proper" mice (as opposed to pinks or fuzzies), that's when I see the real growth spurt start. Sze-wise, they're OK in Geoflats up till then, but once started on mice they need a bigger home very soon afterwards.
 
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