Newbie!

Hello :)

I'm new here, but not new to reptiles. I have 6 royals, 3 boys (butter pastel, cinnamon & a genetic black back) and 3 girls (normal, pastel and a fire), a purple tiger retic who has a wonky face, a male leopard gecko, a male egyptian uromastyx and a male sudan plated lizard.

I recently graduated from uni with a First in Applied Animal Science and have just got a job as a lecturer in Animal Care at my local college. I also volunteer at London Zoo in the reptile house and get to play with giant tortoises and boelen's pythons :P

I will eventually get an avatar sorted, I currently can't be bothered to resize a picture lol.

Hi!

I am fairly new as well. You sound super lucky! All those animals plus a really neat job... I would love to do some type of educational work with animals or just care for them. Dream job for sure! Currently I am still in college and volunteer during the week.

I have always wondered how people with a lot of snakes keep them. Do you have a rack system? I keep my three in big glass aquariums because it seems the best way to give them the most space for the least amount of money, but I know a lot of people don't particularly care for aquariums and I am worried that if I get more snakes I won't have the room for all those aquariums. What is your set up?

Hello and :welcome: to BP.net, you will find a lot of interesting topics on these boards related to all things reptiles it doesn't get boring here.

Welcome to the forums and it's nice that you have a diverse collection.

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Originally Posted by Tavers

Hi!

I am fairly new as well. You sound super lucky! All those animals plus a really neat job... I would love to do some type of educational work with animals or just care for them. Dream job for sure! Currently I am still in college and volunteer during the week.

I have always wondered how people with a lot of snakes keep them. Do you have a rack system? I keep my three in big glass aquariums because it seems the best way to give them the most space for the least amount of money, but I know a lot of people don't particularly care for aquariums and I am worried that if I get more snakes I won't have the room for all those aquariums. What is your set up?

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Hi :)

All my snakes are in a rack which is homemade from an ikea wardrobe shell and RUB's. In an ideal world they would all be in viv's because I like to display my animals but space dictates what I can do. Only 4 of my royals are in tubs, my 2 littlest are in small 18" cube vivs at the bottom of the rack until they are bigger. My retic is being moved into a viv shortly as well because they don't do so well in tubs, plus she will need the space!

I have lizards which take up the most room currently and as you can't really keep them in plastic tubs they get the full works.