saximus
Almost Legendary
Hi everyone,
It's been a little while since I posted here but I wanted to share some photos of a little trick I came up with a couple of years ago which is probably even more relevant at the moment with the ridiculous temperatures we're seeing lately.
I breed my own rodents in the back shed but this obviously gets way too hot for them to survive and I can't afford to give them their own insulated, air conditioned room. So a while ago I thought of the idea of having their tubs in a water bath. I played around with a couple of different arrangements until I came up with the one in the attached pictures. They are simply lab rat/mouse tubs inside cement mixing tubs with just enough water that they float freely.
I'm not sure how well you can make it out on the picture of the thermometers but the one on the right shows the air temperature at about 43°C and the one on the left shows the temperature of the water baths at 29.9°C. That's a 13° difference and, with an old pedestal fan on a timer for airflow, it means the difference between life and death.
I dunno if my little rodent buddies get "seasick" from it but at least they are surviving.
It's been a little while since I posted here but I wanted to share some photos of a little trick I came up with a couple of years ago which is probably even more relevant at the moment with the ridiculous temperatures we're seeing lately.
I breed my own rodents in the back shed but this obviously gets way too hot for them to survive and I can't afford to give them their own insulated, air conditioned room. So a while ago I thought of the idea of having their tubs in a water bath. I played around with a couple of different arrangements until I came up with the one in the attached pictures. They are simply lab rat/mouse tubs inside cement mixing tubs with just enough water that they float freely.
I'm not sure how well you can make it out on the picture of the thermometers but the one on the right shows the air temperature at about 43°C and the one on the left shows the temperature of the water baths at 29.9°C. That's a 13° difference and, with an old pedestal fan on a timer for airflow, it means the difference between life and death.
I dunno if my little rodent buddies get "seasick" from it but at least they are surviving.