Once the vertical tubes are open, all occupants have access to all levels. Unless one decided the tube is a really nice hide spot and plugs it up.



Yeah, I have upgraded / evolved the cages and breeding plan over the years. Tossed the light bulb heat in favor of radient heat panels. I do go a couple of degrees warmer at 82 and this year have switched over to latteral connection of two cage sections for a 1.2 trio of animals. The problem I keep running into with the vertical runs (which were altered to only connect two cages) is they tend to use them as a hide. Really sucks and can take days to lock them all out of the tubes in prepo for a feeding. I still feed all seperate!!!



Managed to lower temps in the room by splitting the colection into two rooms. The warmer BCI collection in the new garage room and the cooler BRB collection still in the house. This helped a lot when cooling the BRB's as the room wouold simply lower as well with less heat load. The room itself is NOT heated, just well insulated. When the house was built thjis room had a "guest quarters" option which mainly was full insulation all around. More for sound proofing but works great for temps. The subadults do not get their temps lowered.



There is a 2" round vent in each cage section, not a lot of ventilation but enough. Again, can't stress the point strong enough, excessive ventilation KILLS humidity. Unless the roiom itself is humid. My room with all the occupants does have higher humidity levels, I can feel it when I walk in.



The cage sections are 2' x 2' x 18" - ish, plenty of room for them to breed. Quite often they will breed in the fishbowl or hide box anyways. Keeping them in smaller sections does increase the need for husbandry.





Only time there is not enough room is when two males are in the same section. But then again, no cage would be large enough in that scenario





One clear advantage with my setup is with two cage sections there are two water bowls, two hide boxes and two floor areas. Works very well with 1.2 trio's as no matter which female the male is courting at the time and where, the other female has an entire cage section to retreat to. Including another water bowl for her to use. Quite often I will see a male with one female in one water bowl and the other female in the other water bowl.
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Thanks,





Dave Colling



www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com







0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)

0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)



LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:

26.49 BRB

20.21 BCI

And those are only the breeders



lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

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