My outdoor pits

Pictures taken about a year ago. Had some fencing panels given to me by a mate so i thought i
would make good use of wasted space down the side of my house. One year on & please excuse
the weeds!
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I have a fourth pit but thats for playtime for those snakes kept inside. Blame Stefan for the pictures & dribble lol!

Haha, you can post as many pictures as you want mate! Really cool enclosures!

May I ask what you do in wintertime with these snakes? Have you build a hibernation place insite the enclosure or do you get them inside your house?

Very nicely done, Mr. Sowter. In my view, this is the ideal way in which to keep snakes(with plenty of fresh air and natural sunlight). Thanks for posting this. Sincerely, Jon Davidson .

That's wonderful. I for one wouldn't mind seeing more photos.

Martti Niskanen wrote:: That's wonderful. I for one wouldn't mind seeing more photos.

I second that ! Great enclosures and photos !

Stefan; people tell me to leave them out all year round but i'm a softy & worry that they will get cold! Had them all since they were hatchlings so i guess i'm abit protective of "my babies" The picture of their hides is just 2 bins, 1 inside the other with 2 polysyrene floors giving them 3 levels to choose from & i can easily pull out the hide to clean without the earth falling back into the hole. Hide goes down 450mm into the ground. In the middle of summer the sun just hits the hides & in winter does'nt hit the bottom of the pits at all for about 8 weeks due to there location down the side of the house. Have seened them out in temps of 8 degrees & heavy rain yesterday. Kept them all inside the garage for 12 weeks over winter on little heat & then back outside.
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Jon; thanks i think the natural elements is good for there natural instincts to kick in, got 6 more tasmanian tigers on the go at the moment & they should be ready to go outside next summer-better start building more!
Martti & Alexandru; i better do some weeding first, i don't think the snakes care but i like to see them in "the open"

First day of sun rays into pit after 8-9 weeks of being cooled in the garage.

Next day things got real cozy
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Nice !

I like outdoor enclosures. Keep the pics coming ;-)

Regards
Daniel

Soooo cool! Good luck with breeding them!

A friend of mine (Ralf) is on a trip to Australia for at least a year and I hooked him up with Nigel. So he went there and as far as I heard he had a great time at Nigel's place haha. At a Dutch venomous forum he posted some pictures from the snakes of Nigel, and Nigel asked if I could post them here too. I will ask Ralf if he wants to post more pictures of snakes here at Venomland when he has some new Smile

Have fun!

Notechis scutatus

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Pseudechis porphyriacus

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And last but not least!

Dajarra region Deathadders!

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Impressive enclosures Mr Nigel, very impressive... and snakes, of course... that I do not even have to say.. Smile

I can try to estimate from the photo but i better ask: what are the sizes of these enclosures?

Hey Stefan thanks for posting some of the pictures that Ralf took at my place, i would'nt had of seen them until tomorrow (sunday 5th) as he's back here again to hopefully get some better pics as those ones were taken on not a nice day, cloudy, rainey, & windy. Any excuse for another visit ha ha. But yeah good to meet fellow herps from other countries & hopefully they will enjoy there visit at my place. Will be taking him to www.wildlifepark.com.au tomorrow with some hope of getting behind the scenes of the reptile house & then onto www.pailsforscales.com.au for a private visit at his house, he is one of the largest breeders in the country.

Neven Vrbanic wrote:: I can try to estimate from the photo but i better ask: what are the sizes of these enclosures?

Pits are roughly 1.8 x 1.5, only because the square tubing comes in 6.5m lengths, enough for 4 rails=2 sides with no wastage of steel. Height is 900m as the fencing sheets my mate gave me were 1.8 so i cut them in half (yeah i know i'm tight with freebees lol). They were then screwed to the frame & i added another 300m to the bottom that extends into the ground. Because of the (low) height they had to have a lid, which i will later change to a half lid. Am also thinking of some sort of overhead cover.

Taken at 7.30am temp 16c going for a top of 32c. 2 early risers grabbing the morning sun, Red Belly & Eastern Tiger.
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Shes looking a bit rough about to shed

i am really impress! really good job ! no words

Very interesting topic!
Nice outdoor cages - outstanding snakes.
Thanks for sharing.
Peter

really awesome enclosures, I'm thinking in make a few for sunbaths for all my reptiles, keep the pictures comming, congrats

Outstanding. And Dajarra Adder looks owesome. Really nice colours. Too bad that there aren't any available in Europe. It would nicely fit to my collection.

Regards, BKK

Here are some more pictures from Ralf. I did not wanted to post them before because he is the person handling the snakes. But he was ok with posting them here. He will soon open a topic here to post pictures himself Smile

Notechis scutatus

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