The GQR Gecko Room
I have spent a lot of time and money with housing our animals, striving to create an efficient and attractive area to maintain my collection. These animals are very important to me, so I wanted it to be easy for me to feed, water, mist and clean them all efficiently. This led me to purchase some custom and stock rack systems from Animal Plastics. The tubs I use are easy to clean and sanitize on a regular schedule. All the furniture in my individual enclosures are also easily cleaned and sanitized regularly, but are not lacking. I prefer attractive and functional enclosures vs cheap and disposable furnishings such as eggcrate. Because of the lidless system, we can be very efficient in every feeding and misting we do. It takes approximately 3-4 hours to leisurely feed gecko diet to over 600 mouths, change waters and mist. When I am able to ship them in, I provide crickets to my geckos once or twice a week which generally takes me an 1.5-2 hours to distribute.
We have transitioned many of our breeders over to a custom AP rack, but still have a number of glass enclosures remaining. The glass are a bit harder to clean than the tubs and take more time and energy. The custom rack system where each tub is 27 gallons and 20" tall has proved to be an excellent space for a breeding group of geckos.
We have more than our New Caledonian Geckos. There are also quite a few snakes (2.1 Argentine Boas, 1.0 Albino Labyrinth Burmese Python, 1.0 Super Tiger Sunfire het Albino Reticulated Python, 1.0 Jungle Carpet Python, 3.2 Kenyan Sand Boas, 9.8 Western Hognose, 0.1 Tricolor Hognose, 1.0 Albino Corn Snake (whom I received as a hatchling in 1996)) in this room. We also have a Leopard Gecko, a Golden Gecko and a few different species of mantids. We have additional snakes and geckos kept in another room currently as well as a separate quarantine section. Someday we'll add to this, but our available space allows only so much. Spare space is mostly reserved for our gecko and snake babies that we hatch. I think we are getting closer to trying to find a larger space to accommodate our growth over the years.
Additional pictures to come...
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We have transitioned many of our breeders over to a custom AP rack, but still have a number of glass enclosures remaining. The glass are a bit harder to clean than the tubs and take more time and energy. The custom rack system where each tub is 27 gallons and 20" tall has proved to be an excellent space for a breeding group of geckos.
We have more than our New Caledonian Geckos. There are also quite a few snakes (2.1 Argentine Boas, 1.0 Albino Labyrinth Burmese Python, 1.0 Super Tiger Sunfire het Albino Reticulated Python, 1.0 Jungle Carpet Python, 3.2 Kenyan Sand Boas, 9.8 Western Hognose, 0.1 Tricolor Hognose, 1.0 Albino Corn Snake (whom I received as a hatchling in 1996)) in this room. We also have a Leopard Gecko, a Golden Gecko and a few different species of mantids. We have additional snakes and geckos kept in another room currently as well as a separate quarantine section. Someday we'll add to this, but our available space allows only so much. Spare space is mostly reserved for our gecko and snake babies that we hatch. I think we are getting closer to trying to find a larger space to accommodate our growth over the years.
Additional pictures to come...
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