Hey everyone,
I know folks are always curious about others enclosures, rack set-ups, and snake/reptile rooms, so I thought I would document the progress of mine. I’ll document the progress from start finish here.
Hopefully others can learn and get ideas for their own space, but more importantly I am hoping I can learn and get ideas from you all through this. Feel free to ask questions and share your experiences, and if you think I may have overlooked something, please let me know!
Guess I’ll get on with this then. We bought a house back in 2020 with an unfinished basement. After (almost) 4-years of filling it with all sorts of useless junk we are finally having it finished. It took me about two weeks total to sort through everything down there and get it fully cleared out. At times I felt like we could have been on an episode of the TV show hoarders.
Anyway, part of the project is a spare bedroom which I have claimed as my new snake room. The room is 10’x19’ with a small closet (~52”x26”). I’ll have a wash basin nearby in the unfinished utility area at the back of the basement. My plan at this time is to stack AP T8s along the long wall for the bullsnakes. I originally wanted to set up the boas out in the basement living room space to allow more room for future bullsnakes, and other pituophis I would like to work with, but I think I am going to keep them in the snake room also. Just easier have to everyone centrally located. Plus, having them in there will keep my wife happy. Not that she dislikes them but she won’t have to plan the main room/furniture configuration around two large snake enclosures. I know, I know, what a selfless act. I hope she knows how lucky she is to have me!
The plan for now is to keep all of my adults in cages. I priced out building my own out of wood and was ready to move forward that but opted to just buy cages for the ease of it. I may still build some on my own down the line if any of my bulls get exceptionally large. The plan for the boas was always PVC cages. My plan is to get two 6x2x2 from The Gorgon’s Head out of Statesville, NC. They look really nice and are priced reasonably. Also huge, they are local so I won’t have to pay for freight shipping. Eventually I am going to need some racks for hatchlings/juvies, but I got time to figure that out.
Enough rambling from me, here’s something to look at (not much though). Our contractor finished the framing today. Here is the first step of the future snake room.
We have a walk through with the electrician tomorrow. My plan is to have as many quad outlets as code will allow installed in this room. This was a suggestion made by someone in this community and I can’t remember who, but if you are reading this, thank you!
That’s all for now. I’ll update this periodically as things progress and are completed.
Also, if you read the initial posting of this and thought it seemed incomplete that’s because it was. I fat fingered the save button before I was finished.