Herproom revisited

[Lisa]

We redid the herp room, doesn't give us any more space, just better access to the enclosures.

Shot of the left side of the room.

http://snakes.lexxdog.com/snakes/herproom1.jpg

Shot of the cages you can't see from the door.

http://snakes.lexxdog.com/snakes/herproom3.jpg

And a shot of the cages on the right side of the room.

http://snakes.lexxdog.com/snakes/cage5.jpg

[BoidKeeper]

I hear ya Lisa. It seems like I change mine around once a month.
Nice pics,
Trevor
PS
What type of snake is that albino in the last pic, is it a burm?

[Lisa]

yup a burm.

[damzookeeper]

Very nice. I see you have a lot of wire and papertowel everywhere like me. Baha. Thanks for letting us into your herp room. ;)

[Mark]

are you heating the melamine cages with rope light? How are your temp.

[Invictus]

Nice pics. I like the last one with the boa taking a bath. Very cute. :)

[Lisa]

Originally posted by Mark
are you heating the melamine cages with rope light? How are your temp.

Nope, using UTH (17X11) for heatrope lights aren't much for heat, temps are ~91 &92

[Edwin]

Nice to see your homemade rheostats in action, they look really good. :)

[Mark]

So you just used one of the pet store ones? I'm trying to get some 4x2x1 to work(heating) but havn't got it right yet. Did you router out a space i the underside and just stick it on? If so how much are you taking off if any.

[Lisa]

Originally posted by Mark
So you just used one of the pet store ones? I'm trying to get some 4x2x1 to work(heating) but havn't got it right yet. Did you router out a space i the underside and just stick it on? If so how much are you taking off if any.


That's correct, we're using zoomed UTHs, the kind you get in the petstore. We routered out about 1/4", we're using 3/4" melamine.

For a bigger space then 4X2X1 you might want multiple heat pads as that's only about 60 gallons.

[Mark]

thanks for the help. I was trying to find a legal way to heat the melamine cage with a heat pad a never thought a UTH would work. Also did you use a special router bit to cut the melamine(my current but doesn't eem to work well).

[Lisa]

dunno what kind of bit we used, it was kind of S shaped and sharp (sharp's the key word, we had a circle on the first one and it took forever because it was dull

[V.hb]

I like the racks you made for your tanks... How did you make them, or were they purchased??? Thats alot of weight!!

[Lisa]

The first shelf is made from scrap 2X4s and plywood. the 2 shelves in the back are store bought. Seeing how we're limited in space we have to stack. I've found another shelf system that looks great for 10G tanks, can't wait to try them.

[fiend_evil69]

Nice setup :). Its nice to see someone with a decent amount of herps keeping them all in more than functional setups. How big is the room? One word of advice however, next time you post pics, maybe you should make sure the enclosures are clean... the last pic the one cage is trashed and one of the boas is taking a "poo bath", don't get me wrong, I know how messy they can be, but I'm sure you kow what I'm getting at ;)

[WingedWolf]

Heh, that boa probably went in there just to do that. <G> My female corn made a horrible mess the other day...never had knocked over her water before, but decided to do it in order to mix it thoroughly with poo. :P

[Lisa]

I tend to wait for the big boa's to leave on their own, especialy with a new boa like that one who I don't trust yet.

[RaVeNo888o]

i see a laptop up on top of the shelf in the first pic. Is that just sitting there or is it part of some high tech heating/lighting system you have goin on there or something lol
and i see that your herps like music:D

[Lisa]

We use the herp room as our server room too (there's 3 servers stacked in the corner). The lap top is our wireless access point and print server for our 2 printers. How ever katey does have an idea for a thermostat but since it's not past the concept phase I can't really say much about it.

[RaVeNo888o]

lol, cool. you should rig up some high teck system that waters and regulates the temp and lighting and stuff ..although that would take away all the fun lol