Rat Room

So I set out to make the perfect rat room. I'm finally done :carrot:

This is a stand alone building and features extreme insulation, climate control, auto timed venting, skylighting, central vac ect. The racks feature gravity fed watering, brass watering nipples, sliding tubs, screen tops and front load food trays. I have been feeding Mazuri rodent pro with supplimental seed, grains and veggies. Production is high, smell is low and it only takes 30 minutes per week to service!!!

Pictures?????

Wow, Chris! Where da pics??? :P

PICTURES!!!!! I am wanting to get into rats and mice here sometime soon......But of coarse i dont have very man snakes/lizards and I want t o get a breeding colonie of leos...they like pinkie mice.....And RATS ARE AWSOME PETS!!:carrot:

More pics to come :D


http://s66.photobucket.com/albums/h2...h_DSCN0696.jpg

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Originally Posted by cueball

More pics to come :D


http://s66.photobucket.com/albums/h2...h_DSCN0696.jpg

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Good !!!! LOL!! I need glasses to see that!!;)

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Originally Posted by stangs13

Good !!!! LOL!! I need glasses to see that!!;)

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lol :D

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Originally Posted by stangs13

Good !!!! LOL!! I need glasses to see that!!;)

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Lol...that really is a weak pic :eek:

Ok..hopefully not as tiny of a pic :confused:


http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h2...n/DSCN0695.jpg

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!;)

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Originally Posted by Laooda

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!;)

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I like the way you think :clap:

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!

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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!

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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.

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 :)

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

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Originally Posted by SnakeySnakeSnake

Nice setup though :)

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Thanks ratmaster :P

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Originally Posted by Laooda

**cough-cough*** Where EXACTLLY in Texas are you!?!? :P

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The Woodlands :D Do you know where that is???

Yes SIR! lol So WHY wern't you at the H-town Show?:oops:

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Originally Posted by cueball

The Woodlands :D Do you know where that is???

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The Woodlands? For some reason, I thought you were in Richardson, or someplace around there. Why did I think that? :confuzd: :rolleye2:

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Yes SIR! lol So WHY wern't you at the H-town Show?:oops:

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Stangs scares me :oops:

Oh yeah...and I was just playing about The Woodlands :P

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Originally Posted by cueball

Stangs scares me :oops:

Oh yeah...and I was just playing about The Woodlands :P

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The Woodlands :D Do you know where that is???

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The Woodlands? Your alot closer than I thought....

Oh, the WOODlands, leting them go in the "woods"... Agh, Got it!:oops: Please, tell us ANOTHER joke! lol !!! JUST KIDDING! :D Seriouslly, nice "RaTopia" you got there!

Weres the pics!?! Im thinking of biulding a mice/rat rack...not very big..just enough to give me soem pinkies/fuzzies!!!:carrot: :D