So, here is mine . . . I tend to hit garage sales and scrounge what I can to try to save money so I can by more important things . . . like more snakes!
First, I have to say . . . .don't anybody give me crap about the books! ~LOL~ Some of my screen tops have thick edges, and a few of my snakes have actually pushed them up with cage clips on, so I use the heavy books to make sure they can't do that. I haven't found clips yet that fit them properly ~grins~
Ok, first shot from the doorway. I took over the office in our house (combined the guest room with the office) and made it into my snake room. My bf was surprisingly ok with this!
These white shelves were from an old workplace that was redoing the break room. They fit 10gal perfectly and the shelves are adjustable.
A little dresser/shelf combo I picked up at a garage sale. The drawers store all my random snake supplies, my scale is on top next to the praying mantis tank, and that shelf that currently has a few supplies on it will also hold 2 of my small bins side by side. So, as you can see, the modem and wireless router are still in here because the guest room does not have the jack for the internet and it wasn't worth it to pay them to crawl under our house and rewire it.
Hopefully the heat in the room won't fry it eventually :shrugs:
These 2 racks I built. The tall skinny one was originally built before I had snakes, but I co-opted it for bins. I just wish I had made it a little longer or a little taller so 2 bins would fit on each shelf!
The larger rack I just built to hold the 40gal. I made sure to make the dimensions so that I could also put a 20gal and a bin on the shelf, or 3 bins side by side (I learned from the skinny tower!). That way I have lots of options for mixing sizes on the shelves.
Ok, this is another garage sale find. Here is the funny part about it: see that curtain? Behind it is an empty shelf. I have 2 snakes that refuse to eat unless they are behind the curtain, so each feeding day I put them in shoe boxes, put in their mice, then put them behind the curtain while I feed the rest. They are usually done by the time everyone else has eaten. If I try feeding them any other way, they refuse. They are such nuts ~LOL~ The bulletin board is the last thing left over from the office I need to move ~LOL~
So, there it is, my snake room. Not as uniformly pretty as some others, but it works for my needs. I may not build pretty furniture, but I wield a mean power saw and don't mind making my own stuff to suit my needs. ~LOL~ Maybe some day I will have something fancy, or just stick with the garage sales. After all, reduce,
reuse, recycle!
