[Sharing] Show Off Your Enclosures

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Nice room dude

Well got a new rack.. iam not done cleaning all the tanks.. but i will take a picture when iam done, but i thougt you guys might wanna check it out before..

each tank is parted in 2.. so i have 16 small tanks




it aint the prettist or the newst stuff.. but i got it totaly free.. so iam happy...

wow we need to get hold of something like that!

I guess I will include my introduction with my enclosures.. LOL
My name is Sean. I am a Boa breeder and i sell mainle reptiles wholesale. I have always loved scorpions and before I got married I had over 500 scorps. Now "she" is an Xwife and I am building my collection again. I have alos just bought a bunch of Ts but am leaning more towards Scorpions.
Well now that I mentioned I am a boa breeder you might understand my caging. I alos use all the standard plastic and small tanks but I have turned one of my baby snake racks into a scorpion unit. Currently housing B jacksoni and a banded flat rock.

Jacksoni with babies in rack.

This is caging I am currently converting to house various desert dwellers.
The caging measures 30x12x12

I hope these are ok for this section and I thank you for looking. Sean

just finished my emps new home!

^^ with a false bottom^^

and as some of you know... the new cave that i built!

hope she enjoys it as much as i do!

Re-arranged the shelf one day for maximum utilization.


top lvl: Liocheles austrlasiae alcove; Tityus stigmurus (deceased) & Sarax sp. (deceased) in the stacked Betta tanks
2nd lvl: WC H. spinifer (sub-adult); Lq in the double tank
3rd lvl: Angie's maternity crib
4th lvl : Borneoen Vinegaroon (Theylophonus doriae borneoensis)*best guess; Banded Krait (Bungurus candidus)

Close up of tmy Liocheles alcove

Too bad it didn't really work out due to a run-in with an ant problem. I no longer use the drawers.

My adults are now housed individually in cannisters like this to stimulate parturition; cotton bud dispensers, Needless to say I'm swimming in excess cotton buds.

closeup of the furniture and the brood


Does not include the scorp tanks outside

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My adults are now housed individually in cannisters like this to stimulate parturition; cotton bud dispensers, Needless to say I'm swimming in excess cotton buds.

lmao I was like that with bun case tubs not so long back, our stigg decided to buy a shed load of T slings!

In the first and second picture, are those little infra red heat lights? they look pretty neat I haven't seen them before. I'm working on an old dvd cabinet and aquarium conversions and they would be good at solving the heating problem whilst looking rather swish at the same time

They're just regular LED lights, more aesthetic than functional. Got them off a friend who was leaving. He left me a bunch of tanks and aquarium stuff too

oh right lol. they do look pretty neat though

New Rack for New Years Day; very literally - set it up during the very 1st few hours of 2009. I spent this new year alone; I don't recall it being my 1st, or my worst as matter of fact... While the whole world went out to endure an inconceivable amount of traffic for a overrated moment in time, i was at home alone happily enjoying my labors of obsession


The best thing about it is obviously the fact that is next to the pc lol


These are 3 sides of the top level (the only one with virtually anything at the moment),

My 2 remaining longimanus from Borneo, and 7 of Angie's brood (spinifer)


Angie's 7 again; Hottentotta hottentotta (in the toothpick vesicle); Angie's maternity crib. Pet room, is to the right


This is on the side of the pc throne - Angie (cross-section of hide covered by postcard of the double-tailed Het); Some L. australasiae in drawers, betta stacked with L. australasiae broods (bottom) and my colony of 6 Sarax sarawakensis; small amblypigids (top)

Hauser those lights on the first few pics, are they for heating purposes or just for viewing?

Unfamiliar wrote:

Hauser those lights on the first few pics, are they for heating purposes or just for viewing?

i'm using those halogen spotlights (12v/20w) to get a hotspot (~35C/95F), the whole room is heated to ~29C/85F.

Amazing setups -- I love the "hills" and the locality maps on every tank.

Absoltuely beautiful man. That is an amazing setp. How do I go about finding the Locality cards/maps you have?

SEANSEXOTICS wrote:

Absoltuely beautiful man. That is an amazing setp. How do I go about finding the Locality cards/maps you have?

i made the labels by myself. you can use my photoshop template:
http://scorpions.f1.to/labels/75x50_label_template.psd
i edit name and areacolor in photoshop or gimp and laminate the printout.

You ar ethe MAN!!! Thanks man.. I apreciate this..

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I have just been rehousing and redoing some of the little ones and their terrariums. Soil, sand, roots and tools everywhere for a little while.
Result is something like this:
(yes, they are in an IKEA shelf in my living room. )


The top pyramid belongs to my faithful G. Rosea.
Top left is for my emperors, top right is for B. Smithi, bottom left is B. Albopilosum and the last one is for my A. Australis which hopefully will move in on thursday.

Closer look on the emperors' hideout. Guess where they are ALL the time....


My B. Albopilosum's crib:


Also a little petbox which is housing a A. Amoreuxi atm. Have a simular one for my H. Paucidens and a slightly smaller for my fully grown Euscorpius.
They will, in time, move into some better and bigger terrariums.

My Expanded Arachnid Rack
I’ve been meaning to post this up for awhile, but I’ve been kept busy with work-related stuff and I needed time for this system to come together. When it finally did, the rack expansion worked itself into a practical efficient system of storing and managing my invert collections; helping to cut feeding and cleaning time from 3 hours of my life to 1.


Adjacently located to my pc station, the rack extension also serves as a platform for me to perform all my invert chores without getting down on all fours.


Penthouse Suites: The other side of the penthouse level is covered by a towel to provide shade for Angie’s (H. spinifer) maternity crib (far right). I can lift the towel to view the window to her burrow. On the left is the 7i tank where I currently keep 3 of her babies that have reached 7th instar,


Here is a closeup of the 7i tank for which I finally constructed a snug secure lid.


Side by side of this is a low tank where I house my WC spinifer: Dusun. She was caught as a 5th instar and after 3 molts has recently become a full-fledged adult (my girl… is all grown up).


Her tank’s top is weighted down with a chop board on top of which I’ve put the two jars housing my Orange Hairy Thelcticopis modesta (visible) and my recently deceased Lichen huntsman Pandercetus sp.


Snuck in between Angie’s birthing crib and the 7i tank is the cubicle for my Borneo trapdoor spider (unidentified).


Before I forget the loft is where I stash the monster jars; housing my Giant Green Huntsman Heteropoda boiei, and my undescribed Malaysian Black and Gold arboreal tube-builder.


Below the penthouse lies the heart and most essential component of the my rack system: the supply depot. Here is where I stash ready to be used tupperwares, plastic cubicles, jars, packs of substrate and bark pieces ready for use, tweezers, tongs, flashlights, water sprinklers, crix and mealworm supplies and every conceivable item for all my invert needs.

I even have a standby tank (topped with the white lid with two square tupperware stacks on top) for the random sizable critter caught from any herping trips. The only pets I keep on this level are 3 red Scolopendra centipedes in the cylindrical tub with the blue lid.

At the bottom of this is where I’m temporarily boarding a female Albino Burmese Python molurus bivittatus share-owned by me and two other of me mates. We’re planning to fatten her up for breeding with a male Green patternless Burmese. Can’t wait to see what the babies will look like.


The extended rack/workbench, which I mentioned earlier, has been an absolute convenience wonder to all my invert chores. Below that is where I house all my miniature knights and scorplings of the great black forest battle tanks.


Right underneath the workbench is my Liocheles dresser where I stash individual housing cases of my Dwarf Wood Scorpion collections which include two subspecies: L. australasiae australasiae and L. australasiae borneoensis. Each individual is labeled with its capture location.


The dresser drawers house all my adults individually in business card jewel cases; two cases per drawer in six drawers housing a total of 12 breeding adults.

After experimenting with many types of containers including cotton bud dispensers, I’ve found business card jewel cases to be the best enclosures for housing this species by far. After transferring my Dwarf woodys into these, I almost immediately had multiple births.


These plastic combo units are ideal for housing my successfully raised batches of captive hatched Dwarf Woodys which are currently close to adulthood. These units are available at most hardware stores.


On the left wing of this level are my betta boxes where I house my Sarawakian leaf liter amblypigids Sarax sp., in the 1st two and the WC Chaerilus sp. mother with babies. The plastic water tub is to safe guard against the onslaught of ants.


On the other side of the Liocheles dressers are miscellaneous Heterometrus scorps. The critter keepers houses my 2 longimanus scorplings I got from my dad last Xmas (love you dad). The wide ‘rubbermaid’ holds 5 of Angie’s kids at 6th instar. On top of that are two tupperwares housing 3 unidentified Heterometrus scorplings of . The one on the left is my probable laoticus, and the one on the right houses a pair of 3rd instar Het scorplings whose identity I’m still absolutely clueless.


Below the dresser level is a display tank currently housing 6 of Angie’s kids at 6th instar.


On the side are my 3 WC Vinegaroons whose species still eludes me. The plastic tupperware contains a WC specimen from Kemensah in Peninsular Malaysia while the other two are WC specimens from Borneo. I’m keeping them individually until I have confirmed their species and sex.


Finally, behind the display tank are 2 critter keepers where I keep a store-bought Vinegaroon and a male Liphisitus malyanus (Malaysian trapdoor) which I’m temporarily boarding until a potential female is found.

In addition to this I have breeding pairs of H. spinifers, a Lierus qionquestriatus, a Spitting Cobra Naja sumatrana, a Reticulated Python Python reticulatus and 11 water snakes (Homalopsinae) of different species not housed on this rack.

I scraped the modernist artistic enclosure I was planning for my b. jacksoni colony and decided to go with a naturalistic set up. This is what I have so far. Sand/coco fiber substrate, cork bark round where I can put a plant, mini rock water dish and a cool tambori log to play on






Still need to find plants and a cool background...I have the blue nocturnal LEDs which just look awesome on the white sand! More to come as it evolves.

Bayss wrote:

Still need to find . . . a cool background

These guys live in Tanzania. Why not a shot of Kilimanjaro?

That would be sweet! I'm going to check Home Depot for some cool looking ceiling tile. I saw some that looked like textured rock in a restuarant ceiling...I thought they all just looked like white cork panels

I am going to look for Kilamanjaro colors...what color are the rocks and sand in east Africa...lol

hauser wrote:

i am very jealous!!