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Hey everybody im trying to get a room set up for my racks, but im worried about noise i have a perfect room my laundry room, but is the washer and drier going to effect the snakes living and breeding?

need all the advice i can get.

thanks very much,
Brice

the noise will not bother the snakes, but the vibrations from the machines might. i would say the further from the machines the better. snakes are deaf, but very sensitive to vibrations and a washer/drier both make considerable vibrations. so my wife tells me.

if you do use the washer/dryer room, set the racks on a few layers of carpet or rubber padding, which will absorb some of the shock.

i few things to mull over... i'd assume a small room with a dryer in it will be very dry as i'd assume a dryer will dry out a room? also, between the soaps and static cling sheets, etc, these rooms take on a sort of chemical soap smell, which might be an irritant to snakes.

i think for those reasons alone, this is not the best idea.

I kept my snakes for a couple of years in my laundry room with great success. The humidity was perfect, the temps were perfect, and it having no windows meant I had 100% control of light cycle. I built a shelf above the washer and dryer to hold a few cages and tubs, then had 1 large rack along one wall and another free floating on casters in the room. The vibrations didn't seem to bother the animals as I didn't have the racks or cages too close to them, and a simple adjustment to the legs of either would lessen any vibrations severe enough to cause alot of issues.
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Randall L Turner Jr.

Not to mention but bleach fumes are very harmful to ball python respratory systems