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We are currently working out of 3 rooms at the moment. We built all of them from the ground up in our basement, all are well insulated and thermo regulated by heating systems. Right now we are at 1,100 square feet. We recently just purchased a new house (well a newer older house) and will be building an additional 1,400 square feet there. At the time we have plans on keeping both basments for the snakes, which will put us at a total of 2,500 Squares.
All of our snakes are housed in racking systems with "belly" heat tape and are ran by Helix systems. The heat tape supplies a hot spot of up to 95 and the room is heated to stay at about 80 for an ambient temp. Many of the racks are custom made melamin racks that were designed for the rooms. We also use some plastic racking by Rich at Herp Enclosures, they last much longer, but melamin is still cheaper.
We have 2 freezers that have been converted into incubators for this breeding season and we are contemplating putting in a third. At the new house we are building a selfstaining walk in incubator. This season we are excpecting about 50 clutches. We already have 10 in the incubator and it is starting to look a little crowded so we may be adding a walk in to the 3 rooms already in play before the end of the season. Things are kind of up in the air right now between shows, breeding season, and consturction. I am going to try and get some pics of the new basement so i can do before and after shots. I dont have many pictures of the rooms right now, we are still moving things around and were a little short on space right now if you know what i mean. Last year alone we held back 250 females, they were all "specials" picked out of thousands, and now i cant part with them. So as they grow my space shrinks.
After this breeding season we are upgrading all the adult Balls to the largest room, we are in the middle of building new racks to house them uniformally against a few walls. Right now we still have all the breeders cramed into one of the two smaller rooms due to breeding season, i refuse to move the big girls untill after they have started eatnig again in their old cages. Now with babies on the way its making us start to work a little quicker. We are hoping to have all 3 rooms up and running by May, ill post new pictures at that time.
The Gecko room is the anything goes room", yes we have lots of geckos but also alot of everything else, including a ton of Chinese Box Turtles, that Matt seems to collect. We have a ton of big males and only a handful of females that are up too breeding size, and a ton of 2 year olds that are still maturing, i guess they are more like "pets". Our geckos are housed in aboreal glass cages, most are 22 gallons, with hinged backs. They work very well for alot of our smaller species such as the Crested, Gargoyles, Sarasanoriums, and Chahouas, but the leachianus would have to be stuffed in them, so we house them in pairs in Vision cages and also large exo-terra cages.
All in all between the reptiles, the miscallaneous stuff we always trip over, Matt and I and the Bull Mastiff that thinks hes a poodle, quarters can be tight. But it works. After May 06 things should be able to lossen up again until the babies start growing, which they have a tendency of doing quickly around here, and then the construction, or should i say demolition of the new house will begin again.
New pictures will be posted as soon as possible.
To check out our breeding page click here. To see what we already have in the incubator click here. |
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We finally finished the new room, it only took months longer then excpected, but it was done as of July 06, just a little off scheduel !!! |
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