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This is my snake room, not the best pics in the world and I skipped one wall that is stacked to the ceiling with AP Cages that house all of our blood pythons, but I think you get the idea. Also all of our hatchling racks are in a seperate room as well that is basically a closet. The Ap cages pictured hold a pair of GTPs, plus some womas, and ball pythons below. Our rainbows are in one of the built in units that has dividers that we can pull out when breeding introductions begin. We also house various boas, and ALOT of carpet pythons in this room as well. I have my collection of tribal masks hanging all over the place plus I put decorative grass on the ceiling to give you the impression you were in a hut. And of course what snake room would be complete without a ridicuously big snake, in the last pic you can see our albino burm in the top cage, he has two levels so he has more room than it might look like. And Yes if I build something out of wood I have to burn it with a blow torch before I stain it, just a weird quirk I have.

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Chris
www.headhunterreptiles.com

I really like what you've done with the place, looks very tropical and I was expecting a headhunter to jump out at any second. The burned wood cages fit VERY well with your motif.
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC)
0.2 kids (CBB)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
10.22 BRB
10.15 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

Chris,

excellent room! In the second pic, it looks like you have cages recessed into the wall along the ceiling. How did you do that?
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Mike Lockwood
www.tooscaley.com

It is kind of hard to explain but the room is in the basement, and the basement is smaller than the house. So basically the cement walls of the basement were drywalled and then around the north and west wall their was crawl space between the top of the basement wall and the floor boards of the house, so to get more room, we basically drywalled and insulated the crawl space around those two walls. What we ended up with was a 2 foot deep shelf in the wall along the ceiling around those 2 walls. I built 3, 3 foot wide cages and set them on the shelf along that wall and trimmed them out, and on the other wall we have the Burm cage basically framed around the whole wall so he can use the shelf to crawl up into for extra floor space. His cage only takes up 2X8 foot of floor space but since he has the "shelf" it doubles that in his enclosure.

I have no idea if that made any sense at all but thats the best I can describe it (LOL)!
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Chris
www.headhunterreptiles.com

Chris,
....That explains it and your snake room is fantastic. And I see now why you are HEAD HUNTER Reptiles.
Jeff

>>It is kind of hard to explain but the room is in the basement, and the basement is smaller than the house. So basically the cement walls of the basement were drywalled and then around the north and west wall their was crawl space between the top of the basement wall and the floor boards of the house, so to get more room, we basically drywalled and insulated the crawl space around those two walls. What we ended up with was a 2 foot deep shelf in the wall along the ceiling around those 2 walls. I built 3, 3 foot wide cages and set them on the shelf along that wall and trimmed them out, and on the other wall we have the Burm cage basically framed around the whole wall so he can use the shelf to crawl up into for extra floor space. His cage only takes up 2X8 foot of floor space but since he has the "shelf" it doubles that in his enclosure.
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>>I have no idea if that made any sense at all but thats the best I can describe it (LOL)!
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>>Chris
>>www.headhunterreptiles.com