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Hey everyone, Im starting to design a new reptile room..Anyone that wouldnt mind sharing a few pix of their just so I can get some ideas, please do so!

Thanks a lot!

Here's pix of my hatchling closet. Smaller shoebox rack in the middle and sweaterbox racks on the sides.

Still working on the rest of the room, don't have any pix yet.
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Thanks,

Dave "Rainbows-R-Us"

0.1 Wife (WC)
0.2 kids (CBB)
4.12 Brazilian Rainbow Boa
2.1 Hypomelanistic BRB
0.1 Het for Hypomelanistic BRB
0.1 BCI "Elvira" normal from 1989
1.0 BCI albino / het-anery
0.1 BCI Hypo / het-albino
0.1 BCI Anery / het-albino
0.1 BCI Hypo (possible super)
1.0 BCI albino het stripe
1.0 BCI salmon hypo
0.1 BCI ghost

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

Mine is in the back of the third stall of my garage. It is 17'x9'. I would have liked it deeper but I wanted to leave room for a third vehicle if necessary.

My garage is mostly below grade so I don't need to worry about cooling it in the summer. But I am in South Dakota so I wanted an efficient way to heat the room.

I chose 220V Radiant Cover Heaters. It can be 20 below zero outside and I can heat this room to 85* with less amps than seven, 100 watt light bulbs.

The floor and walls are insulted with foil-covered poly-iso rigid insulation board. The ceiling just has some batting, but I will also cover that with a radiant barrier.

I'm not thrilled with the electric. I hired the husband of my wife's assistant and he was doing a horrible job so I just told him to do the basics and be done. I have two, 20 amp circuits in the room as well as the circuit for the heaters.

I would have liked to have had one of the circuts on a timer so that at any give outlet one of the receptacles would have been on the timer.

I have a very powerful exaust fan as well a ceiling fan. The ceiling fan runs 24/7 to move the slight convective current produced by my heaters. Even in the winter the floor to ceiling temperature differential is only a degree or two. Most of that is due to the use of a radiant heat source, but the fan does help a bit.

Here are some pictures. In both you can see the radiant heaters on the upper walls.

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Current snakes:

0.0.1 Gonyosoma oxycephala - Java locale (green)

2.2 Gonyosoma janseni - Seleyar locale (all black)

Just a quick question. How many heaters do you have in that room? Thanks.
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No good deed goes unpunished!

I have two, 750 watt heaters. A bit overkill, but that's what I wanted, especially for a long room.

And they're Radiant Cove Heaters, not Cover heaters.
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Current snakes:

0.0.1 Gonyosoma oxycephala - Java locale (green)

2.2 Gonyosoma janseni - Seleyar locale (all black)

baby water dragon, lawsons dragon, grandis day gecko

Pair V. prasinus enclosure