my caging (rack, etc.)

[Ginevive]

I thought I'd post pics..
Here's the BP rack. I use heatmats on rheostats now, but once the incubating is done I am swiping the Helix fro that and running flexwatt on this thing. Then I will just buy another thermostat for the incubator next year The light on top is strictly for lighting purposes when I am cleaning/looking at snakes; Not a heating element! I have shredded aspen in the females' cages because they are recovering from breeding/egg laying; thought they needed some extra spoilage
Usually the lower tubs have their hidespots over the heatmat, and another hide on either side.. they are smaller snakes, and the mats will not slide under the sides because the tubs fit too tight.. hard to explain.

Corn tank is to the rack of the right. Aspen shavings, not pine.

And my BCI cage. Aspen shavings again; model horses all over it because I was dusting their nearby shelf

[K80tik]

WOW i love the setup! NICE BCI Cage. can i ask where you got it from? i have a 5 1/2 foot red tail and id like a tank that slides from the front compared to the top. she hiss's when i come from above and is very calm when i come from the front.

[Ginevive]

WOW i love the setup! NICE BCI Cage. can i ask where you got it from? i have a 5 1/2 foot red tail and id like a tank that slides from the front compared to the top. she hiss's when i come from above and is very calm when i come from the front.

I actually got it at a pet shop in Buffalo. Guy was revamping the store and didn't need this anymore; I saw it out in the garage with things piled on it and inquired, and ended up taking it home for $50. It actually had a complete divider in the middle, and I used it for 2 BPs in my earlier days of keeping.. then I cut the silicon out and removed the divider for one big cage.
Sadly, Mark saw one similar at one of his recent home renovation sites; but he would not bring it home because the house had cockroaches.. they can hide in anything.
It is great, because he dislikes being approached from above, like you said.

[juddb]

k8otic your signature video is hilarious man.

[K80tik]

k8otic your signature video is hilarious man.

LOL great you enjoy it Its what the rodents do when i go to pull them for feeding. i say, " Come here, feeding time" then they turn just like that and say... feed what? do i look stupid haha

[K80tik]

I actually got it at a pet shop in Buffalo. Guy was revamping the store and didn't need this anymore; I saw it out in the garage with things piled on it and inquired, and ended up taking it home for $50. It actually had a complete divider in the middle, and I used it for 2 BPs in my earlier days of keeping.. then I cut the silicon out and removed the divider for one big cage.
Sadly, Mark saw one similar at one of his recent home renovation sites; but he would not bring it home because the house had cockroaches.. they can hide in anything.
It is great, because he dislikes being approached from above, like you said.

damn wish someone made those. hehehe guess its a boa thing. mine hiss's sometimes when i come from above. Ginevive, I got a question for ya. You know much about Boa breeding? I've been reading a few hours on it and i think i can do it. This weekend im gonna go buy some books on it and take my red tail to the park and read them. My buddy has just ordered a male RTB and i have a female. We intend to breed them. I've already looked at getting her the big enclosure from herpenclosures.com and ordering the baby rack that holds 30 babies. Any advice would help. Im not subscribed to any other herp forum or website so i come to this site for all my advice. BTW 10-30 babies! OMG nothing like a BP haahaha

[Ginevive]

Hm; I am not a boa breeder, but I would go in the Boa section and see if anyone can help you there!

[Ginevive]

A few people asked how we built/assembled this rack here's a link to the thread where we were assembling it. It is definately easier with two people!

http://www.ball-pythons.net/forums/s...highlight=rack

[frankykeno]

Geesh Jen I'd have about killed my hubby for walking away from a free tank! He could have put it in the truck bed, sprayed the crapola out of it with P.A.M. at home, disinfected it and I'm sure it would have been perfectly usable after all that! Mark! You silly man!

[Ginevive]

Argh; I know.. it was tough for me to swallow. But literally.. the houses that he cleans and renovates.. you sometimes need a pair of rubber waders to walk in.. think of the messiest house you have ever seen and multiply it x10! I don't wanna get too graphic.. think "house of squalor.."
This particular house was infested with roaches! See, I know that roaches in the southern areas are a matter of course.. but here, they are only really in the worse neighborhoods. If roaches were in our house, I would have to burn everything and start over! I am already paranoid abou him bringing them in by merely walking into those houses
Believe me.. I am the biggest, hugest nut about getting free herp-supplies.. but this was too gross even for me, sadly. And it is a huge shame. Roaches up here can survive world nuclear attack, because probably people use every manner of cheap sprays and bug bombs that they just get immune to.. ACK!