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Post pics of your "snake room"!

wax32

ALL YOUR BASE
I'll start:

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Re-purposed racks that work pretty well for what I use them for. [FREE IS GOOD] The shoe boxes hold this year's hatchlings, the rack they are in holds up to 20 shoe boxes. The zebra striped bowl on the vitamin water rack is my favorite type of bowl, it comes from Wal-mart and costs $4.50, it's made of melamine and cannot tip over. Every time I go to Wal-Mart I buy all that they have. They are by the dog and cat bowls. The heater is also from Wal-Mart and keeps the room a balmy 80 degrees or so. I don't use any other heat for most of the corns. I have flex watt under the BP's, set at 98 degrees.

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The metal rack from Lowe's holds my adults, including my BP's. The smaller rack is from Reptile Basics, looks like they don't even make that one anymore. It houses up to yearlings. This one has flexwatt in the back and is set at about 83 degrees. (I have some of this years hatchlings in there plus my 07 hypo-blood that is still small.) I have my BP's paired up in this photo, so far no joy, I think the male is a little young/small.

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This is a "Computer Desk" that got re-purposed. Serves as my photo studio/hatchling feeding area. The 20 gallon critter cage has my 15 year old cali-king in it. He is inside the newspaper. :grin01: No really, I have a king snake! LOL You can see my cheap incubator under the table, works just fine. Only thing in it right now are Greta's second clutch of eggs that she dropped in her water bowl. They probably won't do anything, but it isn't hurting me to try! :D The little stacks of colored bowls are from Petco and cost a buck each. They are perfect for hatchlings as they serve as water bowl and hide all in one (the bottom is hollow). I buy out petco whenever I am in there, can't have too many. :D


Share your photos! Feel free to comment, ask questions. :grin01:
 
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Here is a link to our old room. I call it 'old' because we have sold a lot of the bigger tanks/set ups and are building lots more racks. We are in the process now, so I can't post pics yet. But I am going to do a before and after when we get done!!!! Yours is very neat! Good idea for the hatchling rack!

Ok so here is the link bc I'm too lazy to copy and paste pics haha!

http://www.cornsnakes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=87144
 
I like your snake room, must be pretty big, my room is a little cramped. I do like that my room has access to the backyard though. :D
 
This is my living room: (Plus there are three 20's and eight 10's scattered around the house...) Actually I have the racks rearranged now so the left-most rack is Noah and isolation, the middle two are females, and the right-most two are males. The middle two and the right two are on the same thermostats, per pair. I also have any "back-up" snakes split up from the main project snakes- so for instance Ruby and Pepper are in different racks, so if there is a heating malfunction hopefully I won't lose the whole project. Mango and Bacon are separate. Adlai and The Dingo are separate. I guess there aren't any back-up females! I have the snakes also sorted for heat-tolerance- with the younger, smaller snakes in the middle and the breeding males in the cool bottom, and Noah and Jewel up in the top. All the little containers up top are the feeding bins.
 

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This is the baby rack if I ever manage to hatch a snake...This is in my bedroom.
 

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Wow Nanci! I like your big "display" type tubs. Looks like you are ready to go! I wish we had a bigger house, so I could display some snakes instead of keeping them in the back room like some dirty little secret. :D
 
Ugh I wish mine had access to the back yard. But we do have a bathroom right outside of it haha

Bathroom is across the hall. My wife is always yelling at me, "come get these bowls out of here!" :D

I take the tubs outside and hose them out, we have a big concrete picnic table that makes a good work surface for that sort of thing.
 
The adult racks are Animal Plastics Economy Plastic 64 qt Sterilite, and the baby racks are Reptile Basics Iris Shoeboxes. All the stickers are off now- I was just excited! And I'm saving up TP rolls!!
 
I also like your snake sorting method Nanci. I guess I could have a problem if that heater ever got stuck on and over heated my room. Maybe I'll put it on a thermostat that will kick it off if the stat gets to 85 or something.
 
I only have one corn snake, two leopard geckos, and one panther gecko...my "room" isn't worth seeing. Nice to drool over yours though :D
 
I only have one corn snake, two leopard geckos, and one panther gecko...my "room" isn't worth seeing. Nice to drool over yours though :D

Just wait, you'll get here! On a side note, I've been considering getting a leopard gecko or two. I even bought a big expensive book about them. :D

I gotta ask, what's a panther gecko?
 
I also like your snake sorting method Nanci. I guess I could have a problem if that heater ever got stuck on and over heated my room. Maybe I'll put it on a thermostat that will kick it off if the stat gets to 85 or something.

That _just_ happened to someone here. Why can't I remember who...The room got up over 100. Not good...

I have back-up on/off thermostats on the racks. And when I go to Daytona, I'm just shutting them off.
 
Just wait, you'll get here! On a side note, I've been considering getting a leopard gecko or two. I even bought a big expensive book about them. :D

I gotta ask, what's a panther gecko?

Panther geckos go by a lot of names it seems, including ocelot gecko, and big-headed gecko. But for those more into geckos in general, they tend to go more by the scientific name of Paroedura picta. Here's a nice little care sheet about them, as well as a picture. http://geckosunlimited.com/node/48
 
That _just_ happened to someone here. Why can't I remember who...The room got up over 100. Not good...

I have back-up on/off thermostats on the racks. And when I go to Daytona, I'm just shutting them off.

Sounds like I am ordering another stat, STAT! :D
 
Here is my "tub cleaning station":

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Dirty newspaper/aspen/shed skin/poops go into the trash can. I keep it under our patio so it doen't get filled with rain water.

I use Dawn Apple Blossom anti-bacterial dish washing soap and one of those blue sponges with the scrubby on the back. I put a big "S" in marker on the sponge so the wife knows that's for snake use only. :grin01:

Shh, don't tell anyone I clean snake tubs on the table where we eat boiled crawfish!

Yeah, the grass needs mowing, Louisiana in the summer time, gotta love it!
 
I'll have to take some pictures of the newest way I've got things set up. But I know I've got a couple different threads floating around here somewhere.

That _just_ happened to someone here. Why can't I remember who...The room got up over 100. Not good...

I have back-up on/off thermostats on the racks. And when I go to Daytona, I'm just shutting them off.

That'd be me. My HOUSE got up over 100. It was 92* at about 2am. :( That's what happens when your a/c unit DIES in Florida, and your house is poorly insulated, and you're not home during the hottest part of the day to catch it. I'm still shocked my crestie and tarantula survived.
 
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