Finally Ball Python Room #1 is Done....

[Dave Barsalou]

Hi Everyone,

It's getting kind of close for my CITES paperwork to come in. I finally finished the adult/sub-adult room (well, one more old style rack to go). You can see the progression from hobby to business in the manufacture of these racks. Once I put the finishing touches on the hatchling room, I can see what I can do about getting rid of the old racks, containers, etc and build new ones. Hopefully I don't get any "he houses his ball pythons together" threads started like last year. So I wanted to let people know I'm all setup for the balls and they will be fat little healthy boys and girls when they are sold.










Thx for looking,

Dave

I'll post more pics later.

[galad]

wow dave thats looking awsome!

How many balls do you think you will be keeping at one time?
I couldn't imagine what your electrical bill is like.
good luck with all of them.

ws

[Tinks]

....wow... thats alot of room!

[ReptiZone]

That is a thing of beauty

[clint545]

Great looking room Dave! Can't imagine cleaning day

[-okapi-]

NICE! When i live in a dorm (after my first 4 years of college) i think ill have to build some racks to house all the herps i plan on getting. i cant have any more now due to families fears of reptiles , but when i come home from college during the summers ill also need to use racks to keep my future pets outa sight (i doubt parents will be thrilled to see aquariums full of snakes all over my room 3 months per year , and thats if they let me move back in after they find out i plan on gettin herps while at college out of state :bsmile I guess one of my ways of choosing the right college for me will be if the students are alloud to have "aquarium pets" in their dorms :thumbsup:.

[Dave Barsalou]

Thx everyone,

Cleaning day isn't too bad. Last night was all the individual racks (50 total) including weighing everyone 1.5hrs. The other racks are 2hrs. So 3-4hrs twice a week (plus whoever knocks over the water dish but with these new ones I've had only one do it).

It looks like more than it is, it's only 150 individual containers. Total wattage from heat tape is 1472W which is just under the limit of a Helix 1007(not continuous, heat tape only requires full power when heating to temp, once there, the pulse proportional thermostat allows for a "trickle" of energy, I would estimate once heated up, the average running consumption is near 500W not much more) . Good thing I got xtra 500W power packs, they seem to be difficult to get these days. Including the hatchling room (about twice as many containers) I have the capacity for nearly 500 animals. The hatchling racks are perfect for breeding Western Hognose! That's one of my next projects.

Just figured it's time to accelerate the process abit. Please feel free to contact me next year for all your het albino, het pied, pastel and mystery morph needs (I'll be letting everyone know later) along with your normals. But don't wait for next year for normals. This year's shippment is due within weeks now. The boys and girls I'm getting and they are better than last year!! (a little more expensive but hey) All chubby fat little things! Never had a difficult feeder or any problem out of 150 animals I bought last year. These CH are part of the first shipments this year and have been feeding and acclimatized since the third week of April.

Just a little plug


(wanted to include a pic of the adult animals to show I have the actual homo animals so there is no question next year as to the hets Man this is the lowest res, cr*appiest pic I have posted (plus the lemon pastel is in shed) I sure how they change thier gallary limits. Oh yea the NERD Lemon pastel is traditional CB but the pied and albino come from W/C fathers bred to CB het females so the genes are in great shape!

Dave

[Kathy Shaw]

Nice set up. Good luck with it.