New Cage Setup

[Art_In_Scales]

Here are some pics of the new cages we've been working on. They are in our living room and I find myself watching the snakes more than the TV now.




We knew cleaning the bottom cages would be a pain with the drop down doors, so we built brackets instead of using hinges on the bottom cages. This way we can lift the doors out of the way.



We put ventalation holes half way up the back on one side and in the top of the door glass on the other side to have good cross ventalation.



We used LED rope light mounted in the ceiling. We routed a groove 5/16 inch deep and 1/2 inch wide for the 1/2 inch rope light. It fits snug, but we still used some silicon to make sure it doesn't fall out. We tried using the incandescent rope light, but it heated the cages up too much, even on a dimmer.



The whole thing is heated using flexwatt. We routed a recess in the bottom of the floor about 3/8 inch deep. Then reinforced the floor with 3/4 inch square steel and used reflectix to keep from heating the cage below.





We used 2 Herpstat Pro's and 1 Herpstat II to control the heat. One Herpstat Pro controls all the hot spots and the other one controls all the ambient heat. The Herpstat II controls the top row of cages, hot spot and ambient. We also put the components for the TV on drawer slides so we could easily get to the back of them.



This is what it looks like with the lights off in the room.



This took several months to complete, but was worth it in the end.

[tmartin2347]

that is the most insane entertainment center I have ever seen.


I was just thinking what would he do if you decided to get bigger tv, well you can get one of those projector tvs that hang from the ceiling and a white board or canvas whatever you would call it drops down in front of the tv. Then you also have a small cage where the smaller tv was.

[WickedBalls]

Sweet set-up

[DutchHerp]

Sick!!!!!

[ev477]

That is boss.

[Patrick Long]

Thats actually pretty cool lookin!

[DutchHerp]

How many snakes you got in that baby?

[Peter Williams]

I don't think I've ever seen something so unbelievably awesome.

[mainbutter]

Make me one??

If only I weren't planning to move within the next year or so I'd think about building something like that. Total pain to move I bet!

Absolutely the most impressive building project I've seen on this site.

[Art_In_Scales]

Thanks for the compliment.

I was just thinking what would he do if you decided to get bigger tv, well you can get one of those projector tvs that hang from the ceiling and a white board or canvas whatever you would call it drops down in front of the tv. Then you also have a small cage where the smaller tv was.

The new rectangle tv will fit, but we would have to put the components on the top of the setup. We would definately need a ladder to change a DVD, the top of the setup is about 7 1/2 feet tall.