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I will start building my snake room soon and need to know the best way to house my animals is i will be keeping ball pythons. I was thinking racks but the room is going to bee 9 X 6 and i dont think i will have that many snakes. But if i do what is the best way to setup the room. Thanks alot
Aaron
I would use racks because
1) Cheaper
2) Easier to clean
3) Less expensive to heat
4) Leavs room for supplies, ect... in the room
5) Easy to make or easy to find for sale
6) Ball Pythons are adicitive and soon you will most likely (with or against your will) have the room full and looking for more room.
I am also just putting my Ball Python room together and I went from 1 adult male BP to him, 4 juviniles, a het albino juvinile, contimplating on 1 more Juvi, and looking for an adult female, AND the only reason I stopped there (for now!) is because I ran out of cash!!! This is a picture of my Male!
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9x6 is not a whole lot of space... If this is going to be a display area, you'll do well to get half a dozen in there comfortably. If you set up a rack system, then you're golden for breeding, as well... Somebody wants to see your prize baby,m you can always open up that drawer and pull him/her out.
We do things a little differently, since our snakes are as much a part of our lives as any other animals. One rather large terrarium housing our grey rat snake is right next to the idiot box, and we spend more time watching her than we do watching television. Near the kitchen is a stack of three smaller display tanks. The only ones which aren's on display is our less active (but more frequently fed, as they are babies) macklot's... They're in tupperwares, for now, but, with our moving to a new home before too terribly long, they'll have new homes too... 
We don't really have a reptile room; we just have critters scattered throughout our home, so that we can watch and enjoy no matter where we are... Now, I just gotta get a web cam on them...
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Justin, Julie and the menagerie...
(Bobbing igs, snapping macklots, exploring ball, hungry kings, hyper grey rat, quacking tribs, hissing roaches, wriggling worms & chirping crickets)
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