Wow! That's great!!! You should sell the blueprints for that one! "Build you OWN RAT-ROOM"! ..."Plans and material count ALREADY DONE"! "This could be your .... just 8 EZ payments of 29.99"! lol!;)
I like the way you think :clap:
09-17-2006, 10:42 PM
Smulkin
Re: Rat Room
Man that is the picture of self-sufficiency right there.
How many total racks do you have and total occupants? Sometime after we put together our megarack I'm seriously going to need to consider following your cue on rat racks!
09-17-2006, 10:55 PM
cueball
Re: Rat Room
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Originally Posted by Smulkin
Man that is the picture of self-sufficiency right there.
How many total racks do you have and total occupants? Sometime after we put together our megarack I'm seriously going to need to consider following your cue on rat racks!
I needed something that was efficent and required very little service. I use pine shavings for bedding and vanilla extract in the water to reduce the smell. I clean once a week and that is plenty for sure. Each tub holds 1.3 adult rats. One tub is always empty. I move a colony to that pre cleaned tub, pull the old tub, dump, refill and move the next colony in. This has become such a fluid motion that doing 15 tubs takes ~20 minutes. The water supply is timed to last one week while leaving ~10%. This way it's easy for me to remove and clean the tub. The food trays also hold one weeks food leaving ~10%. So automated I could really only go in there once a week for 30 minutes.
As I see a female getting close she will get her own tub or share a tub with another close female. Three tubs hold the next weeks pre items. One tub holds a small colony of mice for scenting. This small colony keeps my ~30 ball pythons fed and I release the extras into the woods.
09-17-2006, 11:00 PM
SnakeySnakeSnake
Re: Rat Room
You release domesticated rats that dont know how to fend for themselves into the woods?
That would be like McDonalds closing down and me having to cook my own food ;( Id starve!
Nice setup though :)
09-17-2006, 11:20 PM
Laooda
Re: Rat Room
No, I think he releases the Xtra BP into the woods J/J!;) ... You know that lil' "purple" one... you should set him free... **cough-cough*** Where EXACTLLY in Texas are you!?!? :P
09-17-2006, 11:25 PM
cueball
Re: Rat Room
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Originally Posted by SnakeySnakeSnake
Nice setup though :)
Thanks ratmaster :P
09-17-2006, 11:26 PM
cueball
Re: Rat Room
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Originally Posted by Laooda
**cough-cough*** Where EXACTLLY in Texas are you!?!? :P
The Woodlands :D Do you know where that is???
09-18-2006, 12:02 AM
Laooda
Re: Rat Room
Yes SIR! lol So WHY wern't you at the H-town Show?:oops:
09-18-2006, 01:12 AM
JLC
Re: Rat Room
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Originally Posted by cueball
The Woodlands :D Do you know where that is???
The Woodlands? For some reason, I thought you were in Richardson, or someplace around there. Why did I think that? :confuzd: :rolleye2:
09-18-2006, 08:23 AM
cueball
Re: Rat Room
Quote:
Originally Posted by Laooda
Yes SIR! lol So WHY wern't you at the H-town Show?:oops:
Stangs scares me :oops:
Oh yeah...and I was just playing about The Woodlands :P
