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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ASherpa" data-source="post: 184048" data-attributes="member: 34454">[USER=33266]@Oursapoil[/USER] -- Thanks for this. I think it is important to see it on paper as a good reminder.  I am lucky enough to be a multi-faceted hobbyist and I also keep ball pythons. I have a room dedicated to my more sensitive pets, which is kept higher in humidity and temperature than the rest of my home, year round.  Ambient temp is between 80 and 85 all day every day. I have the ceiling fan on low 24/7 to keep air circulating in my snake racks and enclosures, and my humidity is around 30% in the room, but higher in my enclosures via misting. Temperature is automatically regulated, but I manage humidity on my own. Living in Colorado, humidity requires constant vigilance for both my snakes and now my T's. I have a spare room where I do all my cage maintenance and store my crickets. This room will eventually become my T room and will have its own heat/humidity arrangements. I already have the shelving I plan to use! Also I'm looking for a larger property so that I can really grow and develop my Ball Python projects, extra space for T's is on the list of must haves. My buddy breeds rats specifically for me to have snake food, and my roommate has a bearded dragon and we have discussed splitting care of a colony of dubia roaches. I have been buying crickets until then but I already resolved to start a small roach colony if she decides against it. So far I am LOVING building enclosures and have created a few arboreal setups that I can just drop into a new box when the time is right for a re-house.  See attachments below for one I am proud of, substrate for photo only so I could see what it would look like. I don't think anyone I have now would like this one. But I do. =PI have also been hanging onto a lot of marbles and other glass decorations which I made through the years which I plan to use as cage decorations down the road. Substrate however, I will need to figure out since I have been using some that was supplied by the local guy I got my versi from, and I'm almost out. I have always been a DIY kind of guy, and I find myself thinking "I could keep a tarantula in that" quite regularly. Tons of ideas for new enclosure designs!</blockquote>

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