Herp Facilities

[spykerherps]

For those of you who have a large herp collection what works for you? One large room or building or several smaller rooms.
The reason I ask is because my wife and I are going to be building a place for our expanding herp collection on our future property.
I was trying to figure what would be the most efficient as fair as energy i.e. heating and cooling. I would think smaller would be easier to control the temps , but have always envisioned one big room. Like maybe 1000sq ft.

What do you guys think is best.

 

[dragonflyreptiles]

1000 sq feet is huge, my house is not even that big lol

But the most I ever had at one time was about 175 adult leos and a few hundred babies, plus a few chams. I have a room in the basement that is about 18 x 20 that they were mostly in but it was toooo hard to keep warm n the winter, easy and cheap in the summer though.

It worked though since I kept breeders in the bedroom, yes bedroom, large bedroom and the hatchlings were in the basement and sold before there was a real heating the room issue.

I would LOVE to have had a greenhouse for my chams (http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=productDetail&productId=15135-56172-6X10EASY2BUILD&lpage=none)

And for my leos I would have loved to have has this:
(http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=productDetail&productId=102651-57658-18462-8&lpage=none)

But oh well, dreams are still cool!

 

[brandy101010]

My dream Herp room or house rather, Would have a bathroom, a gecko/small lizard room, a snake room, a small room that would house one iguana or one sailfin dragon. and a quarantine room. Each room would have a comfy couch in it too so I can comfortably enjoy all my animals.

 

[Gecko]

I suggest two rooms. A warm one and a cooler one. It becomes hard to keep hot things and cooler likeing things in the same room and keep everyone happy.

 

[ReptileMan27]

I wouldnt mind a warehouse or two