Updates. For those who are new, I ordered about $1300 worth of cages from Cold Blooded enclosures. After getting the run around over and over, and the seller disconnecting his phone number in the middle of all this, several unanswered emails and facebook messages, and thinking I got scammed, we finally got our cages back at the end of august, he said they were ready on August 24th, at the time I told him we had to wait till the 1st, which was a pay day, so we could drive up to dallas area and pick them up. Upon getting there he states they are still curring, and you can smell the chemicals (but they were ready a week before?) they looked great and we thought they were worth the wait. We waited a few days before housing the snakes do to the strong chemical small. After a few days the sliding doors on the TOP cage began to bow, it is an 18in tall cage. it did not affect the function, so we were like whatever.... after awhile it began harder to open and close the doors, which was stressful as this is a 'hot' cage. Well in January the seams on the front of this same cage can undone, suddenly. Fortunately the snake was not in the cage since we were cleaning. This was the front of the cage, and caused the doors to sit loose in the track, pretty much falling out with no way to secure them. I contacted the seller and told him of the situation and asked what he could do for us, or what we could do to repair it
His reply "sorry dont get on here much. You can use liquid nails clear comes in small tube with nozzel from homedepot or lowes and it will bond it strong after appling use something to support bottom of cage till it bonds."
Sure I was a little frustrated that he did not offer to fix it or replace it, but at least he gave us an idea of what to do. By the way, we ended up using Gorilla Glue epoxy and now it is the end of April and it still seems to be holding well.
Well tonight our older female cobra made a stinky mess that needed to be dealt with asap, so we bucket her up, sweep all the bedding out, and while sweeping we notice, 'hey that looks like it is coming loose in back" just as the small dust broom sweeps over it (not even hard mind you) we hear a loud 'snap' and realize the back seam on the cage has completely come undone. So here I am at 2am looking for more epoxy to repair the cage.
I guess I will have to buy new cages for the venomous because I do not trust these cages anymore. I don't even feel safe keeping my constrictors in them do to the poor quality
photos 1-3 are the first cage, showing the break, bowing, and how the doors would not line up after the seam in the front broke.
photo 4 is the back of the 2nd cage showing the back seam broken.
