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RE: Outside enclosure for pit vipers

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Posted by: Upscale at Sat Feb 2 06:39:01 2008   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Upscale ]  
   

The rules in Florida for open top outdoor pits like that require your 8” wall to have a concrete footer and not less than three feet into the ground measured from the outside perimeter. There isn’t the “pool” rules about fencing, but it does say the enclosure shall be equipped with barriers to prevent visitors from falling in if constructed below ground level.

While most are not taking your post seriously, Bill Haast would. He has just such a setup at Miami Serpentarium Labs in Punta Gorda, Florida. Here’s a link to a tour of the facility by the Calusa Herp Society. You will see one of the half acre “propogation pits” and pictures of a copperhead and western diamondback that live in the same pit.

http://www.calusaherp.org/Special_Events/previous_events/miami_serpentarium_fieldtrip.htm

Here’s another link to a site that shows a tour of the facility by the SHHS, same thing. They say there are 200 rattlesnakes in the pit at any one time.

http://www.geocities.com/hotherps/haast.html

Maybe you should contact them to arrange a tour of their facility? Ask how he feeds them!

venominme

   

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