Those of you breeding, what is your living situation?

We own our house, so the reptiles have a room dedicated to them.

When we first got together though, I already had a couple of reptiles, and we had an apartment. We were not supposed to have them, but I was not going to part with them as I had rescued them and they were my "babies".. so we snuck them in..

No issues, but at the time it was only a small handful. They never saw them on the occasional check.. lol.

My fiance and I rent a small 2B townhouse. This is our second year breeding. We currently have 4.7 ball pythons, two cockatiels, a cat, and we raise our own feeders. There are no pets allowed in our fourplex but we did talk them into the cockatiels. (Didn't think I could pull off hiding those :P) We have always had to hide our critters in several rentals and never had a problem. Except last year we only had one egg to show for our efforts of breeding...we will never move during breeding season again. We do take caution to avoid problems:

All snakes are in rack systems so "non-snake ppl" just think the racks are storage or furniture.
All rats are in dark colored storage tubs so you can't see into them.
We only use pelleted pine bedding for our rats. *We learned the hard way to finally use this and we HIGHLY reccommend it. Our tubs last three weeks before cleaning and NO SMELL!! We have had many compliments on the lack of smelly rats.*
All trash bags used for the animals/bedding are black so you can't see through them.
Our neighbors do not know about the animals.
All animal supplies are moved in/out of the house under the cover of darkness :cool:

The snakes, rats, and incubator have one room. My fiance, the cat, and I in another. The birds get the living room. I don't worry about losing my animals because we would leave before giving them up. Luckily we have family and friends that are ok with lending a hand if something crazy ever came up. Since it does stress my hubby about hiding them though, this summer we do have plans to move into a cheaper small 2B apartment. They do allow animals and are ok with caged critters. I have to say I'm very much looking forward to it, that way we can focus more on our breeding and saving for a house. There were several small apts over the years, between 3 roomates we had 100+ feeders, 8 snakes, a baby lamb for a week, a bloodhound, 2+ cats, and several rabbits that knowone ever knew about!:D:gj:

I rent a decent size apartment but lets just say that my gf is not pleased with our living room situation... good thing I don't care haha!

ive got 9 and im in a two bedroom apartment. roomate is cool with them, because theyre in my room, but i'm moving out this summer into a bigger place so I can expand my ASF colonies, and, inevitably, my snake collection

We are in a one bedroom condo. My parents own it so I am a little unclear about the regulations for pets. One of our neighbors is on the board for the complex and apparently she sees both our dogs every morning when Corey is taking them out. I know they have size restrictions but I think that as long as we pick up after our dogs, don't let them run a muck, and not cause problems within the community, I won't have any problems. We also have concrete in between each unit as a fire guard.

Snake rack just got moved from our living room to the computer niche where we knocked out the built in desk. Tadpole drawer and QT rats next to snake rack. Frog rack is next to the TV in the living room, other frog tanks and stands are also in the living room and one 10 gallon on the bar. Crested geckos are also in the living room. Bearded dragon vision cage "rack" is next to the table. Hog Island is in the bedroom. Rats on the porch covered up with an old shower curtain. Virginia Opossum also on her blankets in the living room. And a German Shepherd mix and a Chi-weener-russel and two human slaves.


I make sure to clean up right away after rat changing day and keep the outside of the apartment looking clean and tidy. If I do get a curious neighbor about the rats, I will just tell them I rescue neglected rats and adopt them out.
They probably think we are growing pot because the frog rack lights are on all day and the plant lights do put off a strange glow.

I rent an apartment I have 10 BP's I have a bedroom just for my reptiles my landlords are cool with it I even have tape wrapped around my snake room door that says "enter at your own risk" and a sign that says "Snake room" everyone around here knows me.. I have my snakes outside when it's warm of course i have problems with some tenants thinking that me being outside with them is dangerous and that i let them "swim in the pool" that as my favorite since I don't go into the courtyard ever with the snakes i go to the field on the opposite side of the building... i'm rambling sorry but you just gotta keep your stuff tidy and find the right people/ place I found this place before we decided to breed i had 1 when we moved in and the landlord thought it was cool lookin it was my male pastel who lived in a fish tank... now i built a rack and have 10 that will breed eventually I have had 1 lock but part of me says wait til next year so i'm going to do that but if the lock produces more pinstripes then that 1 lock would have been successful i didn't feel any follicles so i doubt it

It lives! IT LIVES!!!

I've not seen a thread resurrected twice!

Someone had a surplus of Pheonix Downs!

Speaking of surplus...

Someone has a bit too many hours on FF games.

Haha