Enclosures and such

[schilsound]

The rats at my fiancee's house are all housed within an incredible system about which I have little or no information.

They're a laboratory system, housing the food and water in a custom bin system, with most of them having an inlet port for air control in the case of study/health rats. We keep ours with the lid's duct filter removed to enhance airflow, but they're incredibly low smell systems with the filter in place.

My best friend procured some when the lab he works in [he's also the guy that got me into cornsnakes. Go figure- a herper working with lab rats. Biochemists. Jeesh!] changed over their stock, and I am always on the lookout for more. They're incredibly versatile, durable, and they hold enough for a full 10 day suply for a 1.3 colony of adult rats.

Anyway enough babble [insomnia DO make me go on!]- enjoy!

 

[schilsound]

Here's the water system, and a shot of the delivery systems from the rodent p.o.v.

Perfect height, capacity, and they even provide a "hide" for the rodents.

This bin is our Juvenile Dumbo collection- right now we have 3 x 1.2 colonies of dumbos, one of which is now proven with a single litter, all of whome bear this cute/distinctive "white face" pattern.

We hope to start providing pet stores in the area with stock very soon, especially as now the going retail for dumbos is right at $15.

 

[schilsound]

And finally our mice.

First of all I'd like to thank Jason at Northeast Reptiles. His tutorial on low-cost PVC-x racks is going to save me a bundle and a half on housing my ball python collection.

More applicable to this thread it gave us the basic design for our mouse enclosures, and you can find his info on them here:

Northeast Reptiles

I have six finished so far with boxes on hand to complete another even dozen. We'll then use those to house pre-litter pregnant rats in isolation to reduce stress loads by limiting re-impregnation until litters are weaned. . .

. . .that is if any of these dingbats can help avoid the sperm retention that seems to knock them up at a moment's notice anyway!

 

[bigjerm]

thats awesome im gonna try some of them. instead of these heavy, pain in the butt to clean tanks.