Proper Snake-keeping?

[spacecowgirl]

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I keep them in rack systems. The balls are kept in sweater boxes in a rack system that I made out of melamine shelves. It's 4' wide and 6' tall and holds 12 sweater boxes and 12 containers that are half the size of the sweater boxes. The rest are in another rack I made out of smaller Sterilite containers and smaller melamine shelves and that sits on top of the bigger rack system. The yellow annie is kept in a 6' Neodosha cage.

Very innovative! Kudos to you!

I would still think that's quite a bit of work and expense...do you feed them all at the same time, and do you breed your own mice and/or rats?

When I had a Savannah Monitor lizard, I had a separate tank for mice and then later, rats, but that didn't work out so well, as they were constantly escaping and chewing into cereal boxes and anything else they could get their teeth into.

 

[9Catsz]

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I have an entire 8' x 20' lean-to built on an outbuilding that is exclusively for mouse and rat breeding. Believe it or not, I spend 3X as much time taking care of the mice and rats as I do taking care of all the snakes. One benefit of having so many mice and rats is that they pay not only for themselves, but also my snake, chicken and peafowl obsessions. I've got more people wanting mice and/or rats than I have rodents so I'm slowly building up my mouse and rat colonies to accommodate more customers.

I clean all the rodent cages every 4 days and I feed my adult snakes on one cleaning day, and the babies get fed on both cleaning days.

 

[spacecowgirl]

That is very cool! I am impressed.

That's a lot of space for rats and mice; I can see how the snakes take up far less of your time.