Post Pics of your Snake Room!

I know we had a thread like this before, but I thought it'd be fun; post some pics of your snake/herp room. In my case, this used to be a fully functioning dining room; but not when we moved in! Now the snakes have taken over and they are the only ones who dine in here :)

Here are our BP tanks. From left to right; La Vey's 55g; Bela's 20g long; and Gobby's reptarium abomination thingy with sliding doors :)

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f2...5snakeroom.jpg

Here are the tanks themselves; I went to paper towel substrate recently.

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f2.../55gbptank.jpg
Bela.. as you can see, she's had enough with people photoing her house..
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My BCI, Apache's tank, is in the opening between dinette and kitchen. I hate it here because the lid is a BEAR to get on/off so we are building him a shelf :) His is a 40g long flat, much better than a high annoying 55g.

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f2...apachewall.jpg

VERY nice looking homes for your babies! Mine are very boring. I don't have a current picture of Kashmire's enclosure (plus it's filled with newspaper at the moment until he decides to feed again). The girls are in 41 quart sterilites stacked three high in the bedroom on shelves of a computer desk.

Well, this isn't the entire room, but it shows where the snakes are located. The room also functions as a homeschool classroom/sauna. :) I built the rack on the left, but the right one came from Animal Plastics.

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

Xdeus, what brand name is that heater in the room? I think I've seen one similar but wouldn't mind knowing if you like yours and it's doing the job for you.

Nice tanks Gin! Nice room Xdeus!


~~Jo~~

Its nothing much, but here goes:
https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil...5/ballroom.jpg
AP 2221 Series Rack (black)
Snakeshacks baby/juvi rack (white)

My snakes have recently transferred into my bedroom... since I share an apartment with a roomy, gives us both a little more community space out in the living room (though that's where the cats, dog, rabbit, and geckos stay :rolleyes:)

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c2...g/000_0174.jpg
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'Cedes, hanging out:
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The racks pretty big and takes up a good portion of my room... but I love having my snakes handy, and they're so much easier to take care of in this system.

Here's a corner of the snake world:

https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil...8/herproom.JPG

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Originally Posted by frankykeno

Xdeus, what brand name is that heater in the room? I think I've seen one similar but wouldn't mind knowing if you like yours and it's doing the job for you.

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Hi Jo,

The heater is a Delonghi oil filled radiator from Walmart. It was relatively cheap, I think around $30 or $40. I'm pretty happy with it as it does a nice job in keeping the room warm without drying it out as much as a regular space heater. It still dries it out a bit, though, which is why I have all of that blue masking tape covering the holes in many of my cages.

Oh thanks Lawrence! That is the exact one we were looking at just last week and wondering if it was worth picking up one or two for the future. Glad to hear it's doing it's job.

Hmmm so one of these AND a room humidifier perhaps.....more stuff for my To Do/Think About List LOL.


~~Jo~~

All of my herps are spread out throughout the house so here is one of pics of where the snakes are. Im in the process of putting them all into a Snake room so when that gets done ill get pics of it.
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f2...snakeroom1.jpg

https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil...406_285922.JPG

My snake room is rather humble right now. Check back with me in a few months, I imagine the picture will be quite different.

hi Jo i have that heater and it's in my snake room and works great.

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Originally Posted by frankykeno

Oh thanks Lawrence! That is the exact one we were looking at just last week and wondering if it was worth picking up one or two for the future. Glad to hear it's doing it's job.

Hmmm so one of these AND a room humidifier perhaps.....more stuff for my To Do/Think About List LOL.


~~Jo~~

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I think all of you guys have very nice looking snake rooms :) However, I see only one hide in some of the tanks and do not see any hides in others :P If I seem to be a little uptight about this, I'm sorry and hopefully will not get kicked in the teeth for voicing this concern :picknose: :D

I have found that the racks create a hide by their nature, albeit not as secure as a small hide. The two hide recommendation is usually for the typical glass aquarium where the snake is fully exposed. I know of one large breeder that doesn't use hides for any of his snakes.

I think I remember reading in one of Adam's posts that he provides hides for some snakes as they seem to want more security, but others are fine just in their tubs in the racking system.

Am I remembering that correctly? =)

Few pics
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shameless plug for animal planet and austin stevens on the tv..... lol
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AOD, what are in all of those cages?

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Originally Posted by JBallPython

AOD, what are in all of those cages?

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Well ....... hmm ....... I have my ball in the pic with the upside down flower pot ........ the screen is my chams custom cage i made....... sand tank holds my leo pair ........the rubbermaid with the screen top has a amelanistic corn ........ and i have two acrylics like that but the pic of the acrylic is empty waiting for a gtp i will be getting soon ...... and the other has poision darts....... my large tank not pictured for another ball is in a past post ...... i'll post new pics whn i get my green tree.......edit: and the sterilite holds the various feeders

Here are some old pics of our reptile room, since these pics we've added a few more racks and have upgraded everything to Helix temp controllers along with a few other goodies.


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These are our Melamine cages, these are about 5-6yrs old, cost us $900 total w/heating & lighting to build and still look and work as new. Hopefully we'll be able to replace these with Boaphile cages soon. In the same floorspace we have 9 = 4X2X15 cages, we hope to place 15 = 4X2X12 Boaphiles w/stands.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...s/DSC00060.jpg
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wow nice.......... nothing else i can say.......except i am soooo jealous lol

Wow ssscales thats what ive been waiting to see!! Awesome snake room.

Can I come to your house, ssscales? lol..

Oh ssscales what a great setup...so organized...clean....snakes in great conditions....wanna adopt me! LOL


~~Jo~~

Ssscales, nice setup! Is that an incubator on top of your melamine cages?

<Green with envy!:yes:

Excuse me while I wipe the drool off of my chin!

Thanks everyone, we really love our Boaphile cages. We'll take some new pics when we upgrade everything to Boaphile and rebuild the racks for the expected babies between April-June. Most our melamine racks come apart each year as we empty them out and as they are needed are put back together.

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Originally Posted by xdeus

Ssscales, nice setup! Is that an incubator on top of your melamine cages?

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Thanks, that was an old plastic cage we used to quarantine new snakes in another room or when we just needed a spare cage. The blue igloo cooler in front of the melamine cages in the last pic was used as a incubator for a clutch of JCP eggs last year. Simple and cheap, it was put together with left over flexwatt, a couple water bottles, some eggcrate, 12qt tub and a Helix thermostat...worked great!

I want to see pics of Adam's 8 Ball Shop….

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Originally Posted by ssscales

I want to see pics of Adam's 8 Ball Shop….

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ditto.

temps regulated with the help of a space heater? Nice setup, never thought of using the garage for a herp room (ponders....Hmmm)

I'm pretty lucky, my ambient temps have never gotten above 84F, even when it's 95F outside, my garage stays in the low 80's. My garage is shaded all day by a large tree which keeps it pretty cool during the scorching FL heat!

Last night our temps dropped in the high 50's and are supposed to go down into the 40's this weekend!! This is my biggest problem during the winter months here in FL. Temps could be in the mid 80's one day, low 40's the next day and back up to 80's! I've never had to cool my garage believe it or not, but I do have a space heater to keep the ambient temps in the high 70's / low 80's during the colder nights.

I try not to complain, it's a whole lot better than 3ft of snow and freezing temps for months at a time.:D

Fair enough. I suspect I would suffer the same fluctuations living in the gulf coast as well. Really nice setup though. Best of luck over the weekend.....

Not too mention, I have my trusted Helix controllers.

Well worth the $125.00 IMO!

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Originally Posted by ssscales

I try not to complain, it's a whole lot better than 3ft of snow and freezing temps for months at a time.:D

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Heh...you're not kidding!!!!

K~

here is most of it. this is an old picture. I have 2 more ten gallons in there now.
Ans on the other side of the room it is my Dad's office. Can't you tell i need that shed now?


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Hey ssscales, I was looking at the helix and the herpstat and I must say "Herpstat" hands down. I think I'm going to fork over the extra bucks for the Heprstat II. Right out of the box its a screamer product.

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Hey ssscales, I was looking at the helix and the herpstat and I must say "Herpstat" hands down.

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That's cool. I've USED both and I must say "Helix" hands down! :D

Good luck with your purchase! ;)

-adam

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Hey ssscales, I was looking at the helix and the herpstat and I must say "Herpstat" hands down. I think I'm going to fork over the extra bucks for the Heprstat II. Right out of the box its a screamer product.

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Good choice, I'm glad you're happy with your Herpstat thermostat. I've read a few good post about them. I personally will continue to use and more importantly "trust" Helix with my temperature needs for my cages, racks or incubators.

Personally, I don't see what the big debate is between Herpstat and Helix. They both seem like quality, dependable thermostats, and aside from their small differences such as a slightly different numerical output, I can't see how one would say "this one is hands down the best one to get". I'm sure we can find people that have experienced both of them failing from time to time, so unless someone can produce verifiable numbers to show failure rates, it just seems like a preference issue.

Now, does anyone want to debate your Mac vs. my PC? :P

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Originally Posted by xdeus

Now, does anyone want to debate your Mac vs. my PC? :P

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NO! Rick = Mac, Cass = PC...makes for fun evenings...=P

Slighty out of date pictures of my snake room. Over the weekend the Sarawak and the IJCP's got moved to bigger rubbermaids.

Leos and mealworm colony
http://img472.imageshack.us/img472/8030/leos.jpg

Ball python rack, with one ball and one carpet python on top
http://img472.imageshack.us/img472/8...ythonrack1.jpg

Black Blood and Sarawak
http://img472.imageshack.us/img472/8365/shorttails.jpg

Ball python and carpet python...you can see Vash in this shot :)
http://img472.imageshack.us/img472/4...handkokame.jpg

And just for kicks....I'll post some pictures of my invert room in a different thread.

I was going to post this in a new thread, but I guess this is a good place to post some pics of the ball room I just threw together. Here's the story- My roomate just brought his entire drum kit to our house, so we can jam and all whenever we want to (i play guitar, and its way more fun to play with a drummer). Problem is, his room is right next to mine and his drums are on the opposite side of the corner of my room where my snake racks are. He was beating away on the drums and you could feel the vibrations everywhere. Long story short, I cleared out a walk-in closet elsewhere in the house.

AP and Snakeshacks racks
https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil...001_947317.jpg
Homemade incubator (props to Kavmon for construction!)
https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil...002_947388.jpg

So yeah, smaller room, less drafty, and the humidifier can actually keep up with the airflow of the room. All in all better than having a flippin drum kit beating away for 2 hours a day every day right next to them, just less space for me to work in.