New Frog/Gecko Room... AND vivariums... Pic heavy.

[MeiKVR6]

The girlfriend and I are starting a new business off of New England Wholesale Florist Supply which we manage currently. Hopefully this time next year we'll be successfully breeding Leucomelas, Azureus, Enigma LGs, Tang LGs, and some RAPTOR LGs. We'll also be handling a HEAVY amount of terrarium supplies - but I'll save the info 'till when we're a sponsor of the forum.

We had some space behind the new kitchen so we started building.








That's the waste water evac system. It pumps outside the house whenever it's full.

The outlet of the waste water pump.

Painted, doors, shelves.

Easily detachable PVC connections all fed by a reverse-osmosis reservoir.

The R/O reservoir. (the misting system will be using this also)

The drain/fill valves.

The R/O system.

[MeiKVR6]

Cage construction!!!






Glass & Plexi cutting & drilling.


These are for the Leucomelas. NOT the azureus who will have 10H tanks.











We have a HerpMist misting system in the mail - all the vertical cages will have at least one nozzle. As they are now - they sit between 80 and 90% humidity. The fans have been added to keep them to a MAX of 80F. Originally the florescent lights caused them to overheat. Nightly it goes down to 74 degrees. Mid day the top of the cage hits 80-81F - bottom stays right around 79F.

And for the leopard geckos:



(I'm MUCH more comfortable w/LGs. I've been dealing with them for 4 years now. )

Comments/questions appreciated.

[boombotty]

Looks like you're off to a good start, lots of thought put into the water system. Seems like alot of weight on those shelves for just using the L brackets. Keep up the good design and good luck with your new endeavor.
Scott

[MeiKVR6]

^^ haha yeah no kidding with the brackets. The bottom shelf uses uber beefy 1/8" steel brackets. The other shelves use the cheesy "stanley" 90s since they will be holding about ~1/2 the weight as the bottom shelf.

Oh - and btw - the drainage between cages is NOT DIRECTLY CONNECTED (to prevent cross-tank contamination). Each drains to a big pipe below the shelf with a collector beneath each cage... If that makes sense.

[SS7]

Everything looks really nice. How do you mount the metal hardware to the acrylic?

Sam

[james67]

lookin good there. why use 10 H for azures though??? thats not alot of floorspace.

[jejton]

Nice work. Good luck on the endeavour. Why use RO/DI though? I've read in a few places that its not ideal to use with amphibians as it is hypotonic to them and will cause them to bloat from too much water absorption. Your plants could also benefit from the minerals in the water. I'm guessing you want to avoid mineral deposits but they can always be flushed, wiped away. Why not keep a resorvoir ( Brute can ) of tap water that is allowed to age so the chlorine disapates ?

[Brock]

There's lots of contaminants in tap water OTHER than chlorine, that don't dissipate with time. Depending where you live, of course. Each and every city is different. There's one city around here that has trace amounts of uranium in the water!

Make some tadpole tea for the reservoir, just boil the RO or distilled water with some almond, oak, or magnolia leaves (or whatever you want), and add some kinda blackwater extract.

Then it's completely fine (and closest to natural) to spray with RO or distilled.


Room looks great! Goodluck in your ventures.

[bellerophon]

Looks very well planned out, your waste water is just pumped outside?

[MeiKVR6]

Originally Posted by bellerophon

Looks very well planned out, your waste water is just pumped outside?

lol actually yeah. Right in the back of the garden.

Originally Posted by james67

lookin good there. why use 10 H for azures though??? thats not alot of floorspace.

Those cages are for Leucs. I'll post pics of the horizontal cages tomorrow.

Originally Posted by SS7

Everything looks really nice. How do you mount the metal hardware to the acrylic?

Sam

Black Silicone.

Originally Posted by jejton

Nice work. Good luck on the endeavour. Why use RO/DI though? I've read in a few places that its not ideal to use with amphibians as it is hypotonic to them and will cause them to bloat from too much water absorption. Your plants could also benefit from the minerals in the water. I'm guessing you want to avoid mineral deposits but they can always be flushed, wiped away. Why not keep a resorvoir ( Brute can ) of tap water that is allowed to age so the chlorine disapates ?

I'll deff look into that. It wouldn't be hard at all to add a carbon filtered tank to the mix. I could just use the R/O water for misting and the carbon filtered water for the cage bottoms.