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The new reptile room! Still in progress ...

Tavia

Tavia

Elemental Exotics
As at least those who frequent DYK are aware, we recently bought our first house and moved in this past week and a half. Finally have the reptile room more or less setup and took pictures tonight.

We are going to get one more large rack to put next to this one eventually.
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Pardon the mess, still have supplies and stuff to organize and put away.
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We are going to put two smaller baby racks in the middle of the room at some point. Also want to replace the carpet with a nice industrial carpet in time.
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Looks great! But......

In your post you say "excuse the mess.."
I keep looking.... Can't find it!

I should take pics of what my place looks like after a day of cleaning tubs! Lol
It's an aspen wonderland!!!!
 
LOL, Rich. I found aspen on my daughters doll that she sleeps with the other day! ....and we only have 2 reptiles. Eek.
Anywho....that's an awesome room. Very jealous.
 
rich333 said:
Looks great! But......

In your post you say "excuse the mess.."
I keep looking.... Can't find it!

I should take pics of what my place looks like after a day of cleaning tubs! Lol
It's an aspen wonderland!!!!
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It looks wonderful, congrats! And I agree with Rich here. I don't see a mess. I should really share a picture of mine right now but it is to scary.
 
Thanks everyone! We had had a few of those shelves/racks in the old reptile room but also a jumble of odd things holding cages, including a dresser and a home made wooden rack that worked and looked decent but was bulky. So we bought several more, enough to do away with all of the other 'racks' and to standardize the look of it.
Most of the mess is actually piled up around the closet, which I did not take pictures of! Most of it is packaging from all the new shelves.
I'm just stoked that this room is twice as large as the one we had in the rental house, several of the kids need an upgrade in housing size and there had been no more room left.
We are really liking the new house, all over! Have of course discovered a few odd and in some cases irritating quirks it has already but those are normal for anyplace and at least now we don't have to have permission to change the truly irritating things!
 
So nice & tidy! How do you access the tops when you want to take your snakes out? (The long tanks that are top access & close to the the above shelf)
 
Very nicely organized - well done you! Taking bets on how long it takes to actually change the carpet, though - setting the over at "never" and taking the over. Having put all the work into setting the room up, I can't imagine tearing it down to change the carpeting...
 
LMS68 said:
So nice & tidy! How do you access the tops when you want to take your snakes out? (The long tanks that are top access & close to the the above shelf)
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We've figured out about how much space is needed, minimum, to be able to remove a snake from the cage and change their water and place the next shelf that high up, at least. It helps that almost all of our tanks are the sliding top kind. It's still a bit inefficient and we had contemplated either building some kind of nice stacking display cages or some kind of shelving units with sliding "drawers" that the existing tanks could be set in that could be pulled out when doing anything in the cage. But this is probably the way it will be, for the next few years anyway. We clean the tanks with a shop vac, the only way to deal with that much aspen in glass tanks! Actual racks with tubs would be more efficient in many ways but one of the biggest joys for us in owning reptiles is to be able to watch them, so we don't want to go that route. Two of the shelving units under the window, actually don't have the very top shelf on them because there wasn't room. We are planning on buying the same type of rack for the baby ones in the center and will use the shelves leftover in those.
 
I love your snake room. In the first photo, you have 5 small plastic bins. Do you have one UTH and thermometer per bin, or do you have heat set up another way? Can you take close up photos of how you set those up please? I am setting up for my first snake, a hatching?
 
On those five bins, I have them on heat cable. I find I haven't needed a rheostat or thermostat for the cable. It is just cable tied in place at the sides and stretches the length of the shelf twice. It did need the cardboard under it to hold in heat, as the wire shelf lost too much of the heat from the cable. One thing to note on the heat cable is that it has a very long dead lead, which I had not seen how long that was on the packaging and would have been SOL if I hadn't bought the next size up from what I thought I needed. So go longer than what you think you need! Here are some pictures.
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Then, because I happened to have several large Kritter Keepers empty that my geckos usually go in and that actually worked best in the limited space we had at the old place, I had two snakes in them with the mini under tank heaters, like this one.
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Those heaters do require a rheostat or thermostat on them.
I'm assuming you will be getting a corn snake hatchling? My personal recommendation would be to go ahead and buy a 20L and just fill it with hiding places, they will outgrow a 10 or similar sized bin fairly quickly and that will leave you with the baby cage, that you will then most likely be compelled to fill and start the cycle all over again! Not that that is always a bad thing!
 
Thanks for the detail and the photos. The set up is really nice. It makes me think of the possibilities.
 
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