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antelope
at Wed Jan 16 22:02:43 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by antelope ]
Here's something I found in good old H.E.B. super store. It's a hobby cart for sewing, beadwork, a craft cart. Sterelite boxes with hinged lids, 6 to a rack, each box is 12"x12"x3" high. Drilled two rows of 10 holes per side, plenty of ventilation. I do not heat these racks. I have 3 racks stacked, they nestle. They come with cheap casters which I do not use. I have 4 racks, 3 stacked and another stack started. For $120 and cheap cage furniture, I have a place for 24 hatchlings to yearlings, depending on species. LOL, my black pine, sonoran gopher and floridana will not be able to utilize this type accomodations for much longer, but my kings, milks, and rats are in there for part of their second year. I use small ceramic water bowls and the accompanied boxes for hides in some, others have a plastic water dish/hide combo with a toilet paper tube slightly flattened for a second hide. Aspen is the substrate. So far so good. I am going to buy another 4 or 5 units before they become discontinued!
As far as the laying medium, I filled a Ziploc type container with regular potting soil, no chemicals, and put on a lid with a hole cut in it. Then, had vermiculite ready in a similar container with many small holes punched in the lid. My medium dried out frequently, so as I checked it and as needed, I dribbled small bits of water down the sides into the mixture, careful not to get any on the eggs. 100% hatch rate with rats and other kings, this will be my first year for thayeri, subocs and alterna.
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Todd Hughes
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RE: my plan this season please tell me f - antelope, Wed Jan 16 22:02:43 2008 