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29-Jul-07, 09:18 AM
|  | O.o°•Sunshine•° o.O Subscriber | Join Date: May-07 Location: Boronia Park,Sydney 2110 Gender:  | | |  Bank Enclosures
hi, everyone i would like to see how u keep ur herp collections -- how many enclosures - how much did it cost u - what do u keep in there - and most importantly Pics !! - thats if u have any , and i am soo looking forward to see if someone has lots of reptiles and snakes in their own garage 
nikki
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29-Jul-07, 09:59 AM
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29-Jul-07, 11:43 AM
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erm..bump
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29-Jul-07, 12:00 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Feb-07 Location: Brisbane, Toowong Age/Gender: 20  | | | |
Plenty of threads on this stuff already. Just do a search if "bank" or "enclosures"
Cheers
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29-Jul-07, 01:06 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: May-07 Location: Brisbane Age/Gender: 23 | | |
Hi Nikki,
Here is a pic of our new bank of enclosures. We keep it in our herp room, which is an unused bedroom right next to ours ('cos I like to visit the little critters frequently  ). The bank is made up of two parts stacked on top of one another. The top part is 1800 x 600 x 600 with a divider in the middle - creating two smaller enclosures. The bottom part is identical.
As you can see, we're currently keeping a single bearded dragon in each of the top two enclosures. Not sure yet what we will do with the bottom two. Right now I'm looking at those two spare enclosures as a pretty good excuse to get a python  But I'm not sure. In the meantime, we may use those spare enclosures for our beardie hatchlings when they come along. 
We've got a few other enclosures in the herp room, all are glass fishtanks. One is 1300 x 600 x 600, another is 1200 x 460 x 460 and the third is 1500 x 460 x 460. All of them are empty at the moment, but have been decked out with mesh lids, astroturf and heat/uv globes as we were keeping beardies in them until we got this new bank.
As for cost... do you mean reptiles or enclosures? The enclosures set us back $500 which is an absolute steal. The beardies set us back $250 (for Diego) and $300 (for Phoenix). Taking into consideration everything we have spent since we first got our licence just over a month ago - I'd estimate around $2,000+ 
Ant (my partner) and I will be building our new house sometime in the near future, and are thinking of adding a third garage (as a herp room). I can see our collection expanding massively ... herps are like Pringles, you can't just stop at one
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29-Jul-07, 01:55 PM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Feb-07 Location: Brisbane, Toowong Age/Gender: 20 | | | |
Miss B those two bottom enclosures look custom made for a python! A python that loves climbing on branches.
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29-Jul-07, 02:04 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Jun-05 Location: Sydney Age: 44 | | | |
Nice cages Miss B and yes, those bottom ones are definitely designed for bascially any Morelia species. The only thing is, can you swap them around. It is better to keep your tree dwellers up high. Also, your use of the wall planters is good but to be effective they need to be a hiding spot for your snakes. In their current position they dont really offer this. If you are going to keep snakes in there can I humbly suggest moving the wall planters higher so that there is just enough space for the snake to crawl in there thius providing a great little hiding spot that you can easily remove.
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29-Jul-07, 03:15 PM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: May-07 Location: Brisbane Age/Gender: 23 | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by PhilK  Miss B those two bottom enclosures look custom made for a python! A python that loves climbing on branches. | Quote: |
Originally Posted by peterjohnson64 Nice cages Miss B and yes, those bottom ones are definitely designed for bascially any Morelia species. | Yes, I agree - would love to fill the spare enclosures with a couple of pythons All four enclosures were actually identical - the branches and planter pots are easily removable. Each enclosure came decked out with branch and planter pot - we just took them out of the beardie enclosures and kept them aside. Quote: |
Originally Posted by peterjohnson64 The only thing is, can you swap them around. It is better to keep your tree dwellers up high. | Yep, the top and bottom halves of the bank is completely interchangeable. We could also just leave the bank as is and relocate the beardies to the bottom two enclosures - the branches and other stuff easily click in and out of place and are easily moved. Quote: |
Originally Posted by peterjohnson64 Also, your use of the wall planters is good but to be effective they need to be a hiding spot for your snakes. In their current position they dont really offer this. If you are going to keep snakes in there can I humbly suggest moving the wall planters higher so that there is just enough space for the snake to crawl in there thius providing a great little hiding spot that you can easily remove. | Thanks for the advice - if we end up getting pythons, I will think about moving those planters higher up. Now the only decision is; which type of python to get? What would go well in an enclosure of that size (900 x 600 x 600)... and I should probably mention that I am not really interested in Childreni, Stimsoni or Maculosa
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29-Jul-07, 03:38 PM
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Childreni etc probably aren't really interested in those branches either! Morelia sp. would do well in there for a little while until they're too big..
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29-Jul-07, 03:43 PM
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Originally Posted by PhilK Childreni etc probably aren't really interested in those branches either! Morelia sp. would do well in there for a little while until they're too big.. | Yeah I know, it's just that for a first python everyone always seems to suggest childrens, macs and stimmies - unfortunately I don't like any of them much 
Not a huge fan of plain carpets either, I like something that's really interesting looking, nice colours etc.
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29-Jul-07, 03:45 PM
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Hypo bredlis are pretty. Coastals have a million colour morphs and variations. Black and yellow jungles are beautiful. GTPs obviously are hardly plain but you may need to sell a kidney.. Plenty of oppurtunity within the Morelia to get snake that is far from plain.
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29-Jul-07, 03:48 PM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: May-07 Location: Brisbane Age/Gender: 23 | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by PhilK Hypo bredlis are pretty. Coastals have a million colour morphs and variations. Black and yellow jungles are beautiful. GTPs obviously are hardly plain but you may need to sell a kidney.. Plenty of oppurtunity within the Morelia to get snake that is far from plain. | Yeah a Hypo Bredli would be my #1 choice, but I also love the look of jungles.
Surely there must be some more people with banks of enclosures to show Nikki? 
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29-Jul-07, 03:50 PM
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yeah ,urs is awesome - u see i want somthin like that
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Nikki is taking the horses to the beach on Sunday at 5 am.Expect Pics or a vid Australian Herpetological Society. And is also attempting to convince dad to let her keep a knobtail gecko ^.^ |
29-Jul-07, 03:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Miss B ... herps are like Pringles, you can't just stop at one | Damnnit!
I want pringles now!
Heh.. I would show my enclosures but they're mainly just click clacks. |
29-Jul-07, 04:00 PM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Mar-07 Location: Townsville, North QLD Age/Gender: 21 | | |
Heres a 3 bank that my other half has built for me... thread link for specs Handy Andy Enclosure...
We are currently in the process of building a 5ft beardie enclosure with a 5 hatchie bank underneath.... i will get pics when its all done we just need to paint, decorate and attach glass and perspex...
I eventually want all of my enclosures to be like this.... banks are awesome space and time saving and look good when you spend a bit of time on them... I dont really like having say a garage full of snakes in banks etc..... i like mine scattered through the loungerooms and bedroom (with the spare room being the quartine area) so i can be around them constantly (i like greeting them all on my way in or out  ) rather than them being shut away in a different area..... but i know the advantages of this type of set up and thats JMO....  
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