New Vivs: It Shouldn't Be So Involved!!

[Nanci]

Seriously! Should setting up two ten gallons for two new babies require all this? I even have a couple of tools from my horseshoeing days put to use!

My grandfather, a cabinet maker, is probably rolling in his grave. Unfortunately, when I bought my new stand, and even tried it out with a ten gallon on the bottom shelf, I didn't account for the Critter Cage sliding lid...So I had to cut a slot in the stand to let the lid slide out.

I'm sure there is a power tool for this, but I don't have it, even though I have lots! Still, a little Sharpie, and you can hardly tell.

 

[Nanci]

At first I mounted the thermometer and thermostat on the wall, and hated it. This set up required some extreme wire wrangling!

Here's the view from the front:

And you can catch a glimpse of the occupants-to-be in my cool video! It's the red one and the purple one! Hopefully flying in next week!



Thanks for looking!

 

[velosus]

quite a nice setup you got there. looks cool having the lower viv mounted like that. keep it up

 

[starsevol]

Oh Nanci...
I'm so sorry but all those tools are making me smile.
I forget how other people's systems work!

I just have a wall of shelves, routed with heat tape in the back, controlled by a rhetrostat/thermostat thingy on the wall I can adjust. My snakes live in big sterolite tubs with vent holes in the sides I burnt in using a soldering iron!
Really easy to add cages.

 

[Nanci]

See, a normal person would have a hatchling or yearling rack. I wanted to buy ONE snake. (And I didn't even end up getting that one!) So I had an empty ten gallon sitting on my dresser that Addy had vacated when she moved to the rack. Perfect! Only then I got carried away, and bought another rack, and an adult, and three babies, and didn't have anywhere to put two of the babies, so I wanted to have them out where I could see them and enjoy them, in the living room. So I threw out my dining room table, moved the rack over there, (with room next to it for the second rack that is being built, that already has NO VACANCY when the babes grow up!) and went shopping and bought the cute little stand and the two ten gallons, and the Herpstat, and the thermometer, etc., etc., etc. I just like watching the little babies climbing and crawling and exploring in the evening- to me it's better than putting them in little Sterilites that I can't decorate. When they grow up and move to the rack, I will have empty ten gallons waiting for my "keepers!"

 

[starsevol]

See, a normal person would have a hatchling or yearling rack. I wanted to buy ONE snake. (And I didn't even end up getting that one!) So I had an empty ten gallon sitting on my dresser that Addy had vacated when she moved to the rack. Perfect! Only then I got carried away, and bought another rack, and an adult, and three babies, and didn't have anywhere to put two of the babies, so I wanted to have them out where I could see them and enjoy them, in the living room. So I threw out my dining room table, moved the rack over there, (with room next to it for the second rack that is being built, that already has NO VACANCY when the babes grow up!) and went shopping and bought the cute little stand and the two ten gallons, and the Herpstat, and the thermometer, etc., etc., etc. I just like watching the little babies climbing and crawling and exploring in the evening- to me it's better than putting them in little Sterilites that I can't decorate. When they grow up and move to the rack, I will have empty ten gallons waiting for my "keepers!"

Yup, this is where our disease takes us....from throwing out dining room tables to spending a gazillion dollars on snakey stuff.
Glad there are others like me...

 

[alan]

That looks much better than some sterile-looking lab tubs on a rack. Let's hear it for better looking snake homes!