post your rodent breeding set-up!

[SquamishSerpents]

as the title says, we wanna see your rodent breeding setups! doesn't matter if you have 10 rodents, or 10,000 rodents! let's see those rat rooms!

i'll start. sorry for the crappy cell phone pics, but i just couldn't start up a thread and not include my own pictures. we are moving to a rack setup soon and will not be using glass tanks anymore. but here are the tanks for now:

 

[DragonBoy]

I use a freedom breeder rack for 90 % of my breeders. Rest are in tanks.

 

[SquamishSerpents]

oh boy i wish i could afford pre-made rodent racks! i'm going to be making a homemade one using mortar mixing tubs from Home Hardware. do you find that the rodents in clear glass tanks are nippier/more skittish than the ones in tubs?

 

[DragonBoy]

africans in general are nasty animals. If it were not for a few ball pythons in my collection eating only them I would not raise the beasts. I pulled some pinkies from one well established colony for a fussy hatchling and ever since they have killed every pinky that they have had. Finally fed that colony off. They are simply vile beasts.
I have 9 mouse colonies in glass now and they are no problem other than the wasting food issue which is common for any rodent in a tank. Someone needs to invent a top for a 10 gallon glass tank so you can house feed and water outside like the lab tray tops.
As for building a rack...I am not the least bit handy that way. I am murder with a hammer just ask my partner. I am the one who breaks fingers, drills into his leg or cuts a part of my anatomy off when I use power tools. It's just not worth it LOL.

 

[SquamishSerpents]

africans in general are nasty animals. If it were not for a few ball pythons in my collection eating only them I would not raise the beasts. I pulled some pinkies from one well established colony for a fussy hatchling and ever since they have killed every pinky that they have had. Finally fed that colony off. They are simply vile beasts.
I have 9 mouse colonies in glass now and they are no problem other than the wasting food issue which is common for any rodent in a tank. Someone needs to invent a top for a 10 gallon glass tank so you can house feed and water outside like the lab tray tops.
As for building a rack...I am not the least bit handy that way. I am murder with a hammer just ask my partner. I am the one who breaks fingers, drills into his leg or cuts a part of my anatomy off when I use power tools. It's just not worth it LOL.

Dragon Boy,

you are right, ASF's are indeed nasty. however, i have heard from many people that when they are bred in the black mortar mixing tubs, they're sweet as can be, even when they're protecting babies. that is what i'm going with, just waiting for the tubs to come in from Home Hardware.

and yeah, maybe you should stay away from building, LOL!

i will get better pictures of my set-up when my D90's battery has finished charging. the cell phone pics don't show much, but i made the tops for all my glass tanks that do exactly what you described! however, it DID involve a few nails...so i'm not sure you could manage

 

[Raptor]

That's basically it. I have a couple other smaller tanks that I have my mice in. This is an older picture though, but the layout is basically the same.

 

[Buzzard]

heres an old pic, I have added 2 more racks since this time

 

[Khaman]

Someone needs to invent a top for a 10 gallon glass tank so you can house feed and water outside like the lab tray tops.

Build a tube using hardware cloth ans cap it at both ends with a PVC cap or more hardware cloth. It forces them to eat through the mesh just like in the lab cages and wastes less food.

 

[ZoologyGirl]

This is my homemade rack

 

[Arpolis]

Here is a few old pics of a design I came up with. I have copied the same design to two slightly larger cages now for my 1.4 Fancy rat colony.

 

[bondoron]

I started breeding mice in January of this year. I wanted to be able to have live pinkies for stubborn hatchlings. I bought 1.4 mice and 4 aquariums. I then decided why not produce enough so I don't have to buy any. I then decided why not sell some. So the racks were built and I couldn't even tell you how many I have produced, I know it is well over a thousand though. I am producing over 400 a month for sure.

Here is one of the racks, it has a lot more tubs in it then what you can see.

I figured I might as well raise rats also.

It's hard to see but there is about 40 rat pinkies in this pile.