can anyone help with racks for ball pythons

Ok I now have 9 balls 2 are babies the rest range abouth 2ft. I was thinking of trying to build a rack, my issue is size of tubs I want to just for now build one rack but i want it to be able to house into adult hood. Im hearing that large tubs stress balls but I only have 9 balls right now and dont want to have to build medium and large racks. I was also wondering if I can just get one of those industrial shelves that people put in the garage, attach pegboard to the back with some heat tape running down the back and just stack the rubbermaids with lids on. Would this work does anyone else house snakes without racks? Once my stock gets up then I can build a rack or catch a deal on a local sale for a good rack. Thanks to all for your help

There is a poster who goes by TWH over on the KS Cage & Habitat Forum who has a good design for you. He is not in the business of selling racks but I'm sure he'd give you advice. He's a good guy.

He has built racks where each level can hold the following Sterilite boxes:

1) One 41 qt. box

2) One 28 qt. box + one 12 qt. box

3) Three 12 qt. boxes

Both the 41 qt. and 28 qt. boxes slide in width-wise.

Note that Sterilite makes more than one version of these boxes. Some have raised, circular "feet" on the bottom, others have a continuous raised rim around the bottom. You'll want the ones with the continuous rim as they're closest in height. They are also more sturdy than the ones with the circular feet. I saw them at Shopco last week.

The smaller boxes are about 1/16" shorter than the larger boxes, I believe. Not a huge deal since BP's are not great escape artists.

I may build one of these racks and simply have scrap pieces of expanded PVC which I'll use to shim up the smaller boxes.

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