Rat Room, Stage 1

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Originally Posted by cueball

That's cool! What if you where to just drill a feed hole into the top/side of the existing water bottles you already have and plumb them that way? Are you really 300 hatchlings? That's a lot of rat pinkies to be made!!!

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Importing 400 CH mixed unsorted. I will be sorting them, sexing them, and getting them well started. With 300 in racks, and 100 in tubs, hoping to move 100 males fairly quickly to some pet stores.



with 120 females, if I pulled pinkies from them right away and let them get knocked up again, thats 1 litter every 4 weeks, av 15 per litter x 120 females = 1800 pinkies a month (450 a week), barely enough to keep up.

I have 1200 frozen pinkies in reserve that I will try to get as many of my females on as possible, that combined with moving the males asap, I should be in a good spot shortly as far as production/needs go.

As I raise up some of my own stock for breeding I think I will want to end up with about 160 females and 32 males. max. That will give me 2 males and 10 females per tub, but because half of the females will be out with babies, it ends up bringing the number down to 2.5 on average.... Ive had 7 rats in 6 square fet of tub, and 1 square foot per rat is a pretty good number ( they just pile up and sleep on each other anyway).

Plus the waste output for 7 is about the limit for cleaning 1 tub once a week, much more than that and Id have to move to every 5 days

Holy geez! You are a brave man :D

Looking forward to pics of the hatchlings :O

When are you getting them???

Next week or the week after.

https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil...ernityRack.jpg



1 of those done, 3 more and I will be finished with stage 2

Nice tubs, got a few questions on them(blue/clear ones)
1) what brand?
2) where from?
3) how much?
4) what are the dimensions?
Thanx!
-Lucky

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Originally Posted by lucky08

Nice tubs, got a few questions on them(blue/clear ones)
1) what brand?
2) where from?
3) how much?
4) what are the dimensions?
Thanx!
-Lucky

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Iris
Shopko
2.88
14.5 x 13 I think 18.5 quart

Stage 3 goal, sink, completing the racks, and installing ventilation ;P
http://www.ball-pythons.net/gallery/...ampleSmall.jpg

I think I might like this arrengment better

http://www.ball-pythons.net/gallery/...us2Smaller.JPG

RUN AWAY!! haha... ya nice car ;)


oh and nice plans

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Originally Posted by Karma

RUN AWAY!! haha... ya nice car ;)


oh and nice plans

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Im only partially insane :)

This should leave me flex room and allow me to grow out a few hundred mediums or so each month, 500 or more smalls, and house 30.180 - 40.240 breeders.

The floor plan is a 26'x12' section of my basement! O.o