The containers are branded as Sterilite and they come from Target.
The green handles are from Walmart. I do not like the green handle containers as much because they are wide. I only got them because I had to house a couple of T's and target was out. I can not imagine why!
Anyhow, I just drill holes on the sides and on top of the lids for ventilation.
Target!?!?! I can't imagine how I missed these before. I practically live at Target! I have some boxes I use now but especially liked to purple ones you have!!
Do you ever use a soldering iron for making air holes? If I have a lot to do I prefer it to drilling. The drill is heavy and sometimes I crack the plastic. The soldering iron stinks but I do it outside so it is tolerable. _________________ Jules
As a side note for for our containers we have also labled most of our bins. Denise uses a basic name tag (Scientific name, common name, pet name), and on the scorpions I created a template for word that I merge with my feeding list of scorps to create labels. The labels I use have the scientific name, common name (if available), pet name (yes I name all of my scorps), and information regarding the scorpions venom strength, speed, and agressiveness, also basic care information such as temp and humidty range.
The left side of the closet is the scorps. I also track all feeding, moults, births, deaths, etc in an excel spreadsheet for reference. One of these days I'll get around to posting my templates for everyone.
The containers are branded as Sterilite and they come from Target.
The green handles are from Walmart. I do not like the green handle containers as much because they are wide. I only got them because I had to house a couple of T's and target was out. I can not imagine why!
Anyhow, I just drill holes on the sides and on top of the lids for ventilation.
Target!?!?! I can't imagine how I missed these before. I practically live at Target! I have some boxes I use now but especially liked to purple ones you have!!
Do you ever use a soldering iron for making air holes? If I have a lot to do I prefer it to drilling. The drill is heavy and sometimes I crack the plastic. The soldering iron stinks but I do it outside so it is tolerable.
No we just use the drill. At first I got cracking but now, I have drilling process down. The soldering gun is a good idea as well.
Hello All,
OK here are some pics of my room (recently remodeled)
This rack holds most of my roaches,centis and the largest T blondi and cage.
The table holds most of my Scorpions, and some slings. Millipedes cage is in the bottom.
The corner wood rack holds more scorpions,millipedes and my Jungle carpet pythons as well as my crested geckos
The wire rack holds my feeder roaches on top, and the rest are my larger tarantulas Juveniles and adults.
This wire rack holds the rest of my juveniles and adult tarantulas, way at the bottom I am baby sitting my cousins Leopard geckos and the wood rack on the right is a storage for now but I will replace it for a wire rack for more cages.
The closet is housing my Snakes (1.1 Dumerils Boa, 0.1.0 Ball python, 2.1.0 Cal KIng Snakes, my african bull frog "Boca"
And last but not least My most precious pets 1.1 Corucia zebrata zebrata compliments of Celeste.
regards to all My room is open from Mon-Friday from 5-7 PM and entrance is 5 dollars. I take MO,credit cards,food stamps and spiders as payments. SCABIES members get a discount plus a handling demostration.
Looks like my reptile room, only cleaner and more organized! ;-) _________________ "Tarantulas are friends, not food" (but I bet they taste pretty good with butter and lemon!)
Do you ever use a soldering iron for making air holes? If I have a lot to do I prefer it to drilling. The drill is heavy and sometimes I crack the plastic. The soldering iron stinks but I do it outside so it is tolerable.
I don't have a soldering iron (probably one of the few things I *don't* have), so I just use a nail (of appropriate diameter) held with a pair of pliers over the flames on my gas range. Once the nail is hot, I poke a couple of holes with it and reheat it a bit every couple of holes or so. I also keep the stove vent fan running while I'm doing this so the stinky melting plastic smell gets sucked out.
(For all you po' folks out there like me who can't afford a soldering iron and need to improvise).
How do you guys keep these shelving units heated? I presume that you are not using heat mats for each and every tank/container? _________________ A million died to make this sound...
HEllo,
I do own a Cautin is the spanish word for Soldering gun.
But I prefer using a nail and pliers just like Celeste.
I don't use or have a special device to heat my racks.
I just heat the tearrariums that need to be heated like my Corucias and Jungle carpets and the scorpions
I don't know about the others, but my reptile room is kept about 5-10 degrees hotter than the rest of the house at all times (and the rest of the house is never below 77 F). So the inverts don't need additional heat.
-- Celeste _________________ "Tarantulas are friends, not food" (but I bet they taste pretty good with butter and lemon!)
Thats is the "poor man's" (or womans, sry...) rack system.. The smaller ones run about $12 ea. (sometimes Target has them on sale for $8.99) the larger ones are 110 qt, and they run about $18 ea. It really makes a unit semi affordable. The selving is from Home Depot, 2 diff modles same style.. The smaller (black) was $39, the white larger one was $49-$59 I believe.. These are a bit large for balls (height), but work great for Pituophis and Crots.. _________________ Reptile Rescue Orange County
(949) 394-5759
http://www.reptilerescueoc.webs.com ocreptilerescue@gmail.com
Well D, I believe the ones I use are 76 qt. (smaller ones), you can use them, I do when balls come in. But when I used to keep a collection of them, I used a shorter version I think they were 36-37 qt.??? Floor space is good, height isn't necessary. I chose Sterilite brand due to the latching lids, I like that security when not using melamine racks.. I would say look for a 36-42 qt. size tub with more floor space and less height.. _________________ Reptile Rescue Orange County
(949) 394-5759
http://www.reptilerescueoc.webs.com ocreptilerescue@gmail.com
I basically have a wall that I could set up a rack that is no taller than 57 inches and the length is roughly over 60 inches.
So if I set something up similar to you-how do I provide heat?-the air temp is around 80.
Can you give a "homemade" but nice set-up scenario that meets the snakes requirements.
If you can add more photos of the behind the scenes of your racks and containers (inside and out), that would help me alot!
No prob... Go to any Rite Aid (I go to K-Mart..) and buy heat pads, like for a sore back, they have a low, med and high setting. I keep mine on low.. Theyre cheaper than Zoo Med ones (around $13 ea.) and I duct tape them in the middle of each level, that way two tubs use one pad.. I also keep all my pads on a timer. They come on at 9 am and go off at 9 pm.... This seems to be the cheapest way.. I would use 6 inch heat tape and just roll it from one level to the next, but that stuff is getting harder to find and expensive... I will go take some more pics and post them in a new post.. Give me a couple minutes... _________________ Reptile Rescue Orange County
(949) 394-5759
http://www.reptilerescueoc.webs.com ocreptilerescue@gmail.com
Here's pics of my shelves. I swear, my collection has almost doubled in the last week and a half. ::lol::
On my computer desk:
Plants, roaches, slings, and Avic pair on the shelf on the wall next to my computer desk:
And the converted entertainment center with various roaches, a tarantula, an African Fat-tailed gecko, two house geckos, a corn snake and a love bird. ::lol::
_________________ "Paranoia driving me insane; Paranoia ripping through my brain; Paranoia making me believe; Paranoia, that somebody's after me!"
Very nice set up. I have not gotten to that level of organisation yet.
::lol::. I'm slowly working on it. When you get to a certain amount of cages, it's almost a necessity. ::lol:: _________________ "Paranoia driving me insane; Paranoia ripping through my brain; Paranoia making me believe; Paranoia, that somebody's after me!"
I don;t know what yo are using to mark your containers (looks like sharpies), but as a suggestion I recommend using china markers, you can wipe them clean later, and they come in a variety of colors. (I saw this method being used by one of the forefathers of SCABIES and it seemed to work, since then I believe that is one of the better ways to go-aside from labels-) _________________ God does not play at dice AE
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