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Rickeezee · Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 9:25 pm Post subject: Top three herp things

So whats your top three pieces of general herp equipment and why? In no particular order. You can only pick three mind!

Mine are:

Hozelock 5ltr Killaspray; great for topping up water bowls, spraying vivs, cleaning stuff and spraying frogs.

Plastic tubs large small and any size at all, great for keeping things in, for cricket and locust egg laying tubs, good for transporting herps, good for putting in incubators with eggs in, can house herps in them, can keep food in them, in fact many uses!

Cork bark, very versatile can be used in most type of viv set ups.
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Jan O · Key Member Joined: 23 Jan 2006 Posts: 360

1. My 10inch stainless steel tweezers- so many uses for these- removing over grown crix from tight spots in the viv., round edges mean they are great for digging through plant roots for pygmy cham eggs. Also used for poking around the hoover pipe when hoovers eaten something vital from rep room floor.
2. A giant industrial sized roll of paper towel- used for everything and everything.Much more economical than those silly rolls!
3. Rickeezee- a very useful bit of Herping paraphinalia!.
Jan

Stuart · Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 10:12 pm Post subject:

1,Bounty(kitchen roll not the chocolate bar Rick) Laughing

2,Savlon(diluted great cleaner,disinfectant)
3,Drunk mrs(great for handling the snappy little buggers!)
Cool

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mattie · Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 10:36 pm Post subject:

1) pressurised water sprayer, great for misting everything, only cost a quid in the pound shop, and it tones the arms pumping it up Laughing

2) temp gun, just got this from maplins last week couldnt be without one now,

3) got to say this site great community, straight too the point info and advice, and none of the bull poop you get at other forums Cool

Rickeezee · Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 3:43 am Post subject:

Stuart · Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 8:04 am Post subject:

sorry
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Scott W · Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 8:30 am Post subject:

General day to day equipment Confused

, can't think of anything I really use. Obviously I use cleaning products and paper towels etc but actual equipment is limited. I guess tongs for placing or removing rodents (used rarely though) from vivs and a hook for handling the venomous snakes.

just thought of something else....my trolley...I have a trolley that I wheel the rodents or crickets round the room on, saves me walking back and forth Laughing

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Scott W · Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 8:37 am Post subject:

one other thing I use daily is my record system, this is just colour coded pieces of card that represent what's going on in each viv / tub. I have FEED, In Shed, Refused Last and a few others, this helps me keep track of everything without spending hours each day filling in pieces of paper.
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cornfan · Key Member Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 262

lol I do a similar thing, Scott, but with post-it notes
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Stuart · Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 9:01 am Post subject:

I spy fruit bat poop!!..
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