Growing up retic

Here's a few pic's of my guy. He didn't try to bite me at all this day! I even had him as wrist jewelry for about 30 minutes as I walked around the house and watched tv.

Here's a couple pic's of my lav tiger retic. He's 4' now and eating between wr and sr's every 4 days to keep him happy. I'm about to build him his forever enclosure and am gonna it once. Should I give him more ground space or sorter ground space and some height? I have this in mind. Ground space: 8'-12'W x 2'D x 4'T or some height: 8'complete length x 2'D and 6'T x 4'W on the high end and 2'T x 4'W on the short end. So an (L) turned on it's side. Which would be better for him and cleaning for me when I'm 60-70 yrs old?

Here's a couple pic's of the enclosure I'm just about down with. It's a metal shelving unit with birch wood and white plastic wall panel throughout the inside. Have a 160watt heat panel coming and 1/4" double sliding window tracks for when I can find some glass BIG enough for this. The measurements are
8'W x 2'D x 3'T.

The 1st pic is when I got him at the end of May I think. Very snappy!! About 2' long and 1" in diameter. Now, 4 months later, much nicer, about 5' long and 2" in diameter. A little moody before he poo's and very squirmy for the 1st 5 minutes and then much slower and stays around neck and shoulders.

New pic of the finished 8'W x 2'D x 3'T enclosure for Willard. I didn't like the swinging doors, so put some double sliding track and 1/4" tempered glass. The glass is 30"T x 25"W.

Very nice lav and I'm diggin' the cage design!

Thanks Mark, now he just needs to grow some more. Which shouldn't be a problem from what I've seen so far.

Here's Willard!! He's about or just over 6'. Wish I had my tape measure with me. That second pic would've been easy to measure.

A few more pic's of Willard.

Neat idea to show him growing up, love your enclosure. Is it all custom?