I am going to be building a hatchling rack soon and I have a few questions about what you guys do....
First, the rack I drew up is huge, way bigger than I will need at any given moment but I designed it to hold not only my hold backs every year but also to hold what I will be selling off. I work with corns, ratsnakes, boas, balls, small pythons (Children's and Spotted) and ETBs.
First question - Do any of you use just the cups to hold and feed the animals ( corns, kings and ratsnakes) prior to selling as the primary housing? (caveat) if so how do you heat them and "store" them?
The racks I drew up are 34'' w x 14'' d x 63'' t and hold 48 Iris MCBSS tubs on 12 shelves; the other is close to that but uses Sterilite 15 qt tubs.
I may just be cheap, but this seems like I got over zealous in my design. Any input to this?
I plan to heat it with 1 strip per shelf of 3" Flexwat plugged into a power strip that is plugged into a thermostat ( I haven't done the math on the wattage but I should be ok there).
I have gotten alot of help on this rack and I have even gotten the chance to build it twice over here in the sand box using 3/4' ply and 1/2'' ply.
(with out the tubs of course or the snakes...)
Let me know what you think, tear it up i can take it!