Terrarium!

[kiyakotari]

Spent most of the day helping B&A move stuff around between old apartment, new apartment, and storage unit, but we did have a chance to stop off at one of the local pet stores, and I dropped $270 on the awesome Exo Terra terrarium I wanted (I opted for a full kit, with additional accessories, for an extra $80 - I could have got the terrarium alone online for $120-ish, but then I would have had to pay shipping, and I would have had to purchase most of the supplies it came with anyway, so this was actually cheaper), along with a basket full of various supplies. I still need to get another $100-150 worth of supplies before it's snake-worthy (though the $30 powerstrip with individually time-controlled sockets on it is more to make my life easier than to make the snake more comfortable), but I already knew getting into this that the setup costs were fairly high. Barring complications, the maintenance and caring costs will be much less than these initial ones.

The terrarium is currently sitting on its new table home, all assembled (bar substrate, animal, and bulbs for the lighting system) and pretty.

Comments

[nagasvoice.livejournal.com]

Woot! And it surely doesn't hurt to set things up at least a week ahead and see that everything is working on schedule. I love timers for my aquarium lights. Oh, one thing you may have already thought of (and a safety issue which I forgot to mention the other night, sorry!) and if not, please check with herp specialist? I don't know if it's needed in a vivarium or not, but definitely needed in a fish tank: A probe which grounds any stray ground faults from various pieces of equipment.
I don't know if it would transfer around a dry environment in a similar way.

[kiyakotari.livejournal.com]

Oh, don't worry, I've thought of that. This type of setup (dry, but humid) doesn't require a probe, but it does need grounded safety outlets. The $30 powerstrip of timer-controlled awesomeness I mentioned above includes that featuer.

woot for tank of awesome!

[nagasvoice.livejournal.com]

Sigh of relief! People are always shocked and surprised when I bring it up with fish tanks.
REally looking forward to pix, too!

Re: woot for tank of awesome!

[kiyakotari.livejournal.com]

I can't believe I misspelled "feature" that horribly. DX

[greenjudy.livejournal.com]

Fabulous! Also, "snake-worthy" made my day. XD

[kiyakotari.livejournal.com]

Happiness and joy!