Been a very busy tax season here. We have had our busiest spring season with caging ever! Some real fun keeping up but we have not done too bad considering. We got to make a really nice cage setup for an up and coming Chondro breeder down in Florida. Super nice setup. I will post a link once he is up and running- kind of makes you want some (more) Chondros?
I just posted a few sales on the site. We are clearing out a bunch of stainless hemostats, tweezers tongs, hooks, etc. to make room for some new items coming in a couple of weeks from now. If you need any of these items I suggest you check it out before they are gone. You can see all the current sale items HERE!
The Edstrom watering valves for rodent watering systems are also 25% off- Stock up for spring!!
I have added a new Aquatec Demand/Delivery pump to the line up for the Aeroponics crowd using an accumulator. This is starting to become a pretty interesting field for those out there wanting to grow vegetables in confined spaces. Pretty neat stuff and not all that hard. We will be putting together a few more items for the aeroponics crowd and the reptile/amphibian crowd in the coming couple of weeks. I recently did some pretty extensive testing with a few pumps and have posted the results for our Aquatec 8800 pump on the product details page regarding pressure levels with varying amounts of mist heads. Something to keep in mind when shopping around is that not all 8800 booster pumps are created equal- there are a nearly endless number of variations available for GPH and bypass pressures. What you might select for one application may not be good for another!
I will be adding a variable bypass pressure version in about 2 weeks once I am done experimenting with it. This looks promising as it will allow you to keep your line pressure around 80-100 psi with a varying number of mist heads. The best trade off of mist particle size and water consumption seems to fall right in this range. While generally speaking higher pressure means finer mist you get to a point of diminishing return- Water consumption goes way up ( GPH) even though the mist size has gone down. For vivarium use you need to really watch how much water you are pumping into your setup but for aeroponics the mist particle size is very important. I am thinking the adjustable pressure pump will allow the user to dial in the right pressure for their application. Tune in…………………..
Time to start breeding the colubrids. Don’t have a lot left this year to breed, sold off quite a bit. Not enough time. Should have a good pile of Leucistic Texas Rats, White Sided Black Rats, Pueblan Milks, Albino Patternless Bulls (Nice big orange snake!) and a couple of others. Funny when “Don’t have a lot left this year to breed” means a couple of hundred or more hatchlings??
We will be up in White Plains NY next weekend for the April 18th show. As always, we look forward to seeing you there. We are pretty well booked for pre order caging items but will have several racks and cages for sale at the show. Come see us!