My new reptile room

[Amazing_Reptiles]

Hey Everyone,
I have finally finished my new reptile room! It is taking a very long time to do, but has certainly paid off. I built it with a small amount of help from my Dad teaching me how to do the frame work, and then I took it from there. Enough blabing and here are some pics!

The whole wall:

Left side:

Middle:

Right side:

Hamster (feeders) tank, baby reptile cupboard, betta fish etc:

More betta fish etc:

Rest of the room:

The whole wall from another view:

The top part, above all the tanks opens up. This is where I keep all my feeders, egg laying bins, delicups, expo displyas, betta breeding tanks, and a whole buch of other extras:

Well thats all the pics for now. I will take some pics of my "baby reptile cupboard" in a couple days once its finished, which is looking good so far. The oack wood covers about 1/2" of all the tanks, which are locked in place, so no tanks can be accessed without a code on the new exo-terra locks. Under the oak, I will be putting some type of thick, white bristle board, which will be used as a white board to record all of my reptiles in for each tank. There are two switches, one which turn on all 9 floresnts at once, and the other turns on 12 different heat lamps. I forgot to turn the heat lamps on for the pictures, so the wall gets even brighter and better when there on. The unit is about 12'x9'x30" all together. Since I have the oak wood, it works as an insulator, it keep the unit and tanks at a perfect steady temp during the day, and almost no heat gets to my room. My old reptile room would jack my room up to 82F, now it stays at 72F, which makes is a whole lot easier to sleep. Now that this is done, I will have more time to be active on the forums, and post of of tanks, and all my reptiles, I would like to post a new species ech week. I think that covers everything, thanks for reading this long boring post
Thanks
-Steve

P.S for some reason I can never get tanks to look good with this camera, and the colors to look right, so it looks WAY better in person.

 

[Amazing_Reptiles]

I have now finished, and took pictures of my "baby rack". This is where I house reptiles that I hatch myself. It is also home to a 1.1 of Albino African Clawed Frogs. Right now, there is no babies it in. I only have about 6 lizards in there, all where purchased from other breeders, and I am just raising them up so they can be added onto my breeding colony in my actual reptile unit once they are of adult size. There is a 9 inch floresnt at the back of the cupboard, which lights the whole thing up when it is closed. There is heat cable on the inside of the door which keeps the baby rack steady at around 82F. So, here are some pics of it!:

Baby Cupboard Closed:

Open View:

Ok, heres all the tanks that I have, starting from the bottom:
-The bottom ones are small exo-terra faunariums, perfect for houseing babies where the adults are under 8 inches long, there are 6 of these(3 more behind the visible ones)
-Next level is a terrestrail rack, along with my 1.1 Albino African Clawed Frogs.
-Two different sizes of terrestrail racks, the small ones are perfect for animals suck as S. thenodactlyus, or D. Dameaus hatchling. The bigger ones can house of to 3 new born Leopard Geckos.
-I also have my digital scale shown, and a x-large exo-terra faunarium, and little bigger than the size of a 10 gallon tank (floor space).
-The top level is good for holding larger arboreal lizards, such as U. henkeli.

Here you can see the heat cable attached to the door:

Another view:

In my storage area, I also have some 20 gallon tanks, as well as some more exo-terra faunariums. The 20 gallons will be used to house babies in quantities, and larger lizards (beardies, chameleons, small monitors). All I need to do now is pick up 5 digital thermometers at the upcoming show to tell teps all over different areas of my room, then I am done!
-Steve

 

[JeffG]

Amazing...

 

[Dragonflames81]

I have to say that is freaking awesome man. I would love to have a setup like that at my place. When me and my wife get a new house thats what I want to do for my reptiles room but I want to make the whole room like what you have set up. Awesome simple awesome!!!

 

[aquapimp]

one of the nicest I've seen. Sounds like you've got a great dad, too.

 

[DDReptiles]

WOW, nice clean look, love that cabinet baby holder........I can just see some visitor finding that while looking for clothes, go for a shirt open it up to find baby reptiles LOL :lol:

No but awesome work

 

[Riverside Reptiles]

Great job! I love the hidden shelf above the tanks for the feeders and whatnot. Very nice set up.

 

[gecko-kus]

really great professional looking work mate, nice one

 

[Amazing_Reptiles]

Thanks guys
-Steve

 

[Ken Bartenfeld]

Hey Steve,

Just had to say great looking setups.

 

[kimo]

Just to add more complements! Great job!

p.s. How much space you have between those smaller terrariums and are those plants live ones and what are you using for lightning them?

Thanks!

 

[nycherper]

Steve great job on this set up man!
Whats in the bottom right tank, that has an aquarium in it?

 

[Emilylovesherps]

Soooooooo, what do the ladies think when they come up to your room? Lol.

 

[Amazing_Reptiles]

Thanks guys!

Kimo: Plants are all fake, I never have tried real ones but I might be getting some in the future. There isnt much space between the setups, it ranges from the trim of the enclosure actully touching the trim beside it, to about 1 cm apart. For lighting I have floresnt lights over every tank, and I have 9 heat lamps in total in the unit for the animals that need it.

nycherper: That is where I kept my Chinese Water Dragon. I recently sold him, and changed the set up around. I will be getting a trio of Timor Monitors closer to the summer that will be in that tank.

Thanks
-Steve

 

[Little_m]

It's just awesome. Really nice setup with all the babyenclosures in the closet. Good job!