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My snakerooms......new updated pics...

rainbowsrus Dec 21, 2009 04:50 PM

Just took some updated pics of both of my snake rooms.

My original room used to house my entire collection before it outgrew the space allotted to it. Now it houses the entire BRB collection and all the babies from both my BRB's and my BCI's.

Here's a graphic layout of the rainbow room, entrance to the left, is actually the downstairs bedroom. The house was originally built with this room designed as a "in-laws quarters". One really nice design point is it's fully insulated for sound dampening.....

View from the door...

Working my way clockwise around the room, a 48 slot melamine hatchling rack, followed by a 45 slot AP rack, then My home made BRB breeding cage #2....

Both of my home made BRB cages, #2 on the left and #1 on the right....

A stack of Boaphile cages, 3ea 421 Condo's on top and 3ea 421 Townhouses on the bottom...

To the right of the Boaphile stack is the bedroom closet. This pic shows one of my two home made Sterilite 1754/1765 racks on the left and a three high stack of Boaphile 30 slot Rhinoraxx...

A more straight on look at the closet (also shows the second Sterilite rack)....

Continuing on, there are two racks I had designed by Animal Plastics to house 10 each Iris CB110 tubs (you can only see the top 6 tubs in this pic) And on the right of those are three more Boaphile 30 slot Rhinoraxx hatchling racks..

Last stop around the perimeter are two Sandmar Industries "stacks" on the bottom are 4 deeper tubs and on top is a combination cage/tub with a plugable access hole between them.

In the center of the room is this custom workbench/96 slot hatchling rack...

It's actually built as two separate racks that are normally joined together....

Like I said earlier, the collection grew beyond the capability of the original room to house so I carved out some space from the single car side of my three car garage. Built this room to house the BCI collection and left some space still in the garage proper to house the rodent factory.

In this layout drawing, the exterior rollup door (insulated and unused) is to the right, entry door toward the bottom (opens to the double car side of the garage) and off to the left outside the room but still in the garage is the rodent factory. The "squares" on the floor are one foot each...

A couple of images from the doorway....

Clockwise around the room, first are two breeding cage stacks, on the bottom of each stack are three Sandmar Industries 48" x 32" x 18" cages with roller hardware, keylocked bypass doors. Originally all 6 were fitted with caged ceramic heat emitters and each one had one of the 6" pedestals still on the bottom ones. That made the overall height of three cages 6'. I removed four of the pedestals and switched all six over to RHP's. Without the extra pedestals, there was room for another cage on top so I added a couple of Boaphile 421D's on top = two more cages in the same stacks!!! (Lotsa breeding going on in there right now)

On the exterior wall, a small stack of Sweater box tubs, a full stack of Boaphile 421D's.

And up against the rollup door is a stack of blanket box tubs and two more of the same AP 10 high CB110 tub racks.

Phew, hope you liked the virtual tour!!!!
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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 (05/26/2009):
36.51 BRB
29.42 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

Replies (11)

Randall_Turner Dec 21, 2009 08:16 PM

Great series of images. Makes me want to rearrange my herp room.
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Randall L Turner Jr.

rainbowsrus Dec 22, 2009 11:53 AM

Thank you for the kind words, sorry to cause you the re-arranging and you're welcome when you get it done and like your "new" space!!
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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 (05/26/2009):
36.51 BRB
29.42 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

combs reptiles Dec 21, 2009 08:52 PM

I wish the wackos trying to take our boas could see the dedication and professionalism that most of us have in regards to our hobby/business. They have no clue to whats really going on.
Very nice...thats the way to do it. Its too bad the ones who get the attention are the idiots who keep a 10 ft burmese in a 25 gallon fish tank with a brick on a piece of wood on top.
Glad to see a post on something other then this boa ban thing.(and hear I am talking about it!)

That shows alot of care and time....nice.

Mike

rainbowsrus Dec 22, 2009 11:55 AM

That ois the really sad part, how many of os are so dedicated to our hobby and those few think they can just take it away!!

The rooms and setups are always a work in progress. Always adding, adjusting and re-arranging to be as efficient as possible.
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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 (05/26/2009):
36.51 BRB
29.42 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

henke2 Dec 22, 2009 03:27 AM

Awesome. Thanks for the tour.

Regards

Henke

rainbowsrus Dec 22, 2009 11:55 AM

You're most welcome..
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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 (05/26/2009):
36.51 BRB
29.42 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

1radsunglow Dec 22, 2009 08:29 AM

Very well put together Dave. Thanks for shareing pics of all of your hard work.

Eric

rainbowsrus Dec 22, 2009 11:57 AM

Thanks Eric, been a long evolution to get where I am now.
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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 (05/26/2009):
36.51 BRB
29.42 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

AbsoluteApril Dec 22, 2009 02:47 PM

those pics are almost as good as being there in person! (it's better in person cause then you get to see all the lovely critters that live there too)

Very impressive and there's a lot of work and love in those rooms, looks terrific Dave!

Once Jesse gets all his stuff out of my snake room (we broke up) I am really looking forward to re-arranging everything (and getting more cages!).

Happy Holidays!
-April
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'There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."' -Rainshadow

rainbowsrus Dec 22, 2009 05:31 PM

Hi April, good to hear from you. Sorry to hear about you and Jesse, I hope the breakup was for the best and that you move on and find that special someone to share your life with.
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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 (05/26/2009):
36.51 BRB
29.42 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

FGS Dec 24, 2009 01:56 AM

Dave,

If I had to take a guess, I'd say that I've been over to your house around 50 times right?

With that being said I am always in awe of your set up and your obvious dedication to excelence.

Your animals and your set up are a class act.

Good luck with your 2010 season, especially our sunglow motley project.

Merry Christams to you and the ladies
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Brian Gundy

www.for-goodness-snakes.com

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