Our garterroom

[Gijs & Sabine]

Here are some pics of our garterroom. And this spring we make the room almost twice as big !! Can't wait till it's ready

here we keep our (almost)adult garters


and here as well



these are for the young ones

[Gijs & Sabine]

the enclosure of our melanistic group


the elegans terestris group

[Snaky]

Like already said on the Dutch forum, just marvelous
To become jealous of

[Cazador]

Those are simply amazing! I'm glad to see that with so many snakes, they're given such wonderful care. It's truely remarkable! A few questions, if you don't mind. How big is each enclosure? How big (what wattage) of a light bulb are you using, and have you ever had a snake get burned by one? Finally, how warm does it keep each enclosure?
Rick

[Gijs & Sabine]

@ Rick:
Thanks fot the compliment. And about your questions, the enclosures for the (almost) adult garters are 115x50x50 cm, and the enclosures for the babies are 75x35x35 cm.
We use in all the terrariums spots of 25 watt and we never had any burnproblems at all We also have a dimmer (??) on all the lights, so we can slowly turn down the lights. And if it's hot outside it's handy to drop the lights and with this the temperature.
Under the spot 30-35° C and elsewere in the enclosure 20-25° C. The garters can choose by them selves where they wanna be.
In the upper enclosures it's a bit warmer.

I hope you understand my bad english

[Boots]

Your English is fine. Thanks for the info, your setup is amazing.

Jason

[abcat1993]

All I can say is, I wish I was you.



But I'm still happy I'm me.

[Sid]

Absolutely fantastic. Maybe given enouth time and effort I can have my room set up as nice .

Thanks for sharing.
Sid

[suzoo]

WOW!!! That is SO AWESOME!!! I want a snake room too!!! Just like that!!! AWESOME!!!
Want to adopt me?

[GarterGuy]

Not that it hasn't already been said, but WOW! Hate to bug, but I've got some questions as well. When you say your "groups" are they same sex groups or do you seperate your sexes? Also, have you had any bad experiances keeping so many snakes together in the same cage. I'm still floundering a bit on exactly how to do my own setup....single snakes or multible ones. The clinical part of me wants to keep it to single snakes, but I really like how the setups look with multible snakes together, and it allows me to keep more snakes per space. Thanx ahead of time for any info.
Roy