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Breeding Room

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I am thinking building a little shed to put bearded dragos in , I've seen plenty of cages with beaded dragons in them but I want to see a breeding facility. So please anyone could you pos some pictures of what you have.
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Personally i have a room in my home setup just for the reptiles and the insects nothing special just vivs wherever they fit lol. I have thought about building a shed of sorts for them but the problem would be permits, heating/air control, and stability in storms. Hope someone has what you are looking for bro.:thumbsup:
 
Well i'm in process of moving all my dragons atm from the finished basement i have to a room upstairs. Here are the babie/juvi setups.
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Next im moving all dragons from tanks/cages to rubber maid tubs on racks to save space and maximize lighting and heat.
 
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I dont currently have any full pics of just my building. but in some of my dragon pics posts, in the background you can kind of see some of my stuff.
I have a 10x20 long building.. at the entrance to your left is a rack w/ 58 qt rubbermaid tubs that have some of my dragons.. and all of my leopard geckos on it... incubators next to that... to the right... arachnid rack system.. meal worm colonies and superworm colonies... against back wall... i have one rack similar to the first w/ the rubber maids but just dragons.. next to it.. same... and next to that.. a 4x8... double stack cage system I built for my females
 
New breeding room

Here is a room we just started setting up, this is my new cage idea:). the nice thing about these they are light and can be moved very easy unlike melamine.
 
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I like 4ft Boa Masters.:)

THe light set up was Nicole's idea and works well. when the UVB and basking lights shut off the night glow bulb clicks on to add a lil heat in the winter so there is no big temp drop. all are on timers, that makes it simple as the lights click on and off by themselves.
 
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DiamondDen said:
the nice thing about these they are light and can be moved very easy unlike melamine.
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The reason most of us use melamine is it is dense and holds heat better than anything, yes it is heavy and that's the reason we build rolling bases for heavy melamine cages! ;)


Thanks Max.
 
Yes that is true but i feal that my new cage's hold heat just as well as melamine cage's as those are what i used before these. but everyone has there own opinion lol. boa masters cages are nice tho.
 
2x4's for the fram and quarter inch wood panaling for side's, back, top and door's . my cage's temp during the night stay at 70ish and during the day reach up to 105 for the basking spot and 80 on the cool side


also each cage is 4'x2'x2'
 
Here are my tanks, please pardon the paper on a bunch of them I took these pictures when my dragons where brumating. I will post pictures of my new tank being built when it is done. All of the tanks pictured are made of Melamine I feel this is the best material to work with it holds head well and seems more resistant to ware. I still have to put my idea to work Ed I haven't had time to get the second lights wired in for night bulbs but it will save a lot of time when I do!

The 8 Stack is one huge unit this saved a lot of space for me. The 6 lower tanks are 4 x 2 x 16 and the top two tanks are 3 x 2 they hold heat perfectly.

The 4 Stack are 4 x 2 x 2 I keep small groups of females in these they take up a little more room than the large unit but are great fr what I use them for.

You are best off going with melamine it might coast more but you get what you pay for. I would also recommend keeping all of your cages on wheels they are usually very heavy and it will make moving them around much easier. I do know a lot of people swear by 4 x 2 x 2 but I find my 4 x 2 x 16 work better this keeps the UVB a little closer to them and allows you more room for more thanks (Height wise). [My tanks are in my house]
 
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The only wood based unit that Ive got is the female unit.. which is made out of 1in. plywood. with white showerboard around the insides going about 11 in. up and around.. which is there just so that any insects cant crawl up the sides. Never had any heating problems w/ it... like I said earlier though.. the rest of my cages are large individualized sterilite style tubs
 
Cages/tanks set up

Very nice setup ed that is exactly what I will be doing after this breeding season!! This is what i'm working with right now but I will soon be recunstructing my entire room and the sterilite tubs are temp until i set my other 4x2x2 + 4x2x18" and I am using mega ray 100 watt mercury vapor bulbs right now for the sterilites. After this breeding season I will be switching to my homebuilt melemine/ oak face enclosures 4x2x18" with 36" 10.0 uvb and 40-50 watt basking lamp for all sub-adult and adult dragons.
 
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My little slice of heaven

The first two pics are of the breeding room...

and the last pic are of the baby cages.

Fig i would snap some pictures as i feed an clean... after a long two weeks of snow removal its nice to come home to my girl and my little ones!!

What do you think? not bad for a 2 bed room apartment!!!:rofl: I do what i can do with what i got. But if i had a house i think i would have way to many animals!!!

As you can see newspaper isnt pretty but its easy cheap and leaves behind no mess when cleaned up like substrate can.. If it wasn't for the males messing up the newspaper it would be perfect. but what can you do!!!

And yes i even have more animals then what i have in my cages.. some are in brumation and a few of my dragons are with other breeders getting bred! like the red hypo trans in my avatar. i miss him but the breeder has bred him to three different females. so be expecting babies from him in the next month and a half two months.
 
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BaseballBeardies said:
they have some nice setups. Come on people in the biz citrus dragons, ed clark, baltimore beardies,etc where you at
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Sorry for the long wait on the pics... Actually i just wondered in here to see what was new. hope my pics help... Of course i do have more homes for babies but i didnt fell the need to take pics of plastic bins from wal-mart.
Also i am just now getting the feeling back in my arms from the 2 weeks of snow removal. lol, so hope the pics of the cages help. i can explain how to built them to keep the cost fairly low. as you can see i used 1 piece of wood to be the ceiling of one cage and use that same piece of wood to be the floor in the one above it. so instead of two pieces of wood used, there is only one...
 
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