I live in St. Louis so there's going to be a lot of the year I'll need to keep my leopards indoors. They're still quite small so they're in an enclosure in my office currently but I've been slowly accumulating supplies and equipment for my room.
When we bought our house it had a partially finished oddly shaped room that we basically used for storage until now. I cleaned it out during spring cleaning, purchased some shelving and a grow lamp to try and keep my potted food growing better in the winter time. I ran some electrical into the room over the winter.
Here's some early progress. The grow light has been hung and I had some plants in there:
Around the corner:
From the back corner:
Shelves hung:
Around the corner with shelves:
With my biggest cactus moved in, and heater just sitting there but plan to use it to bring up ambient temps:
Another shot from the back (you can kind of see my power strip mounted to the wall as well):
This weekend I purchased tile, some concrete backer board, etc as I plan to tile the floor and a little ways up the wall so that they won't be up against the drywall and so that I can put down substrate on tile and protect the walls. I plan to use the selves to hang some heat lamps for basking spots and for hanging other UV lights. The grow light can have UVB bulbs as well but I'm not sure it's close enough to the floor.
When we bought our house it had a partially finished oddly shaped room that we basically used for storage until now. I cleaned it out during spring cleaning, purchased some shelving and a grow lamp to try and keep my potted food growing better in the winter time. I ran some electrical into the room over the winter.
Here's some early progress. The grow light has been hung and I had some plants in there:
Around the corner:
From the back corner:
Shelves hung:
Around the corner with shelves:
With my biggest cactus moved in, and heater just sitting there but plan to use it to bring up ambient temps:
Another shot from the back (you can kind of see my power strip mounted to the wall as well):
This weekend I purchased tile, some concrete backer board, etc as I plan to tile the floor and a little ways up the wall so that they won't be up against the drywall and so that I can put down substrate on tile and protect the walls. I plan to use the selves to hang some heat lamps for basking spots and for hanging other UV lights. The grow light can have UVB bulbs as well but I'm not sure it's close enough to the floor.