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Ali and Mark @ Animal Plastics

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This post will be updated with a better review when I get my cages (with pictures) but I just wanted to give my thumbs-up to Ali and Mark @ Animal Plastics.

Back in June I ordered 15 T-12 cages (48X24X24) sliding glass doors. The one bad thing IMO is their website. Not many pictures of their accessories and just a standard picture of their cages. This caused me to ask many questions over the past month. (At times I would have a question or 2 every day) Ali has always been GREAT in responding to my questions and never has given me reason to believe I am bugging them. (Even when I feel like I am) I think most of my questions could have been answered if more pictures and details were posted on their site but as I said Ali has been GREAT!

Mark has been great in meeting my needs and finding ways to help get the cages exactly how I want them. At the moment he is working on getting the ORANGE AC wires (Belly heat) dipped in black Urethane (Plasti Dip) so I will have all black wires with black cages. IMO this is a step beyond what he had to do. (THUMBS UP)

Animal Plastics has done much more for me in this deal tahn I thought they would and have been GREAT TO WORK WITH! I have not received my order yet but I am really excited!!! I will post more later when I get the cages!

In the next year I plan on buying 6 to 12 more cages from them and wouldn't look else where!

(Pictures to come in the next few weeks)
 
I would have to agree about Mark over at AP. Goes out of his way to get your needs met. All of my large plastic cages are AP's and my neo rack was custom built for me. Another thumbs up here :)
 
Yeah I kind of went into this purchase blind. There are other cage options on the market but AP got such great reviews. I found a few pictures of AP cages here and there but not many so I hope I can help the next guy out by posting detailed information and pictures here soon. (Pictures say a thousand words...) I've never seen their cages in person so buying 15 at once was a huge risk IMO. I took a chance but so far I couldn't be happier with my choice and I have not read one review where someone didn't like it... Wait. Someone did say they were too heavy for him (I guess he moved his cages around but for me that is what I want and don't plan on moving them every day. ;-) With so many people happy I am sure I will be too.
 
I posted these threads on other boards quite a while ago but it still holds true.

"Well I got my Animal Plastics EP Hatchling rack in today and put it together :). This is technically not yet on the market but Mark was kind enough to hook up a "semi-custom" set up for what I needed. If I am not mistaken this is only the second one of these ever produced. The rack is for this girl's babies.

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This was surprisingly easy to put together and the tubs fit flawlessly. Here was the process......

Fitting the first couple of peices.
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All of the shelves in.
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Threading the heat rope.
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Tubs added.
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Using a Spyder Robotics Herpstat for control.
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The name I stick with.
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Now lets just hope there are plenty of babies to fill this rack come May.

Thanks again Mark :)"
 
And this one as well

"I had this in already for a couple of days but I was lazy to get it put together. Here it is. It is the T-10 cage from Animal Plastics (I like that size for boas)

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This heating option is one of the main reasons I love Animal Plastics caging

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Notice the "work aid" in the bottom seft hand side of the cage

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added to the setup

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Thanks Mark."

Hope that helps as far as pix and seeing what you will be getting.
 
I have used AP racks for years! nice thing about Mark is he takes time to lesion
to our needs, the last time they were in town Mark and some of the guys came over for a BBQ I talked to Mark about building me some custom racks I have 4 of the 45 tub hatchling racks and wanted some CB70 racks, they make a 10 and a 12 tub rack, I wanted a 11 tub, why you ask? because I wanted a CB70 rack the same hight as my hatchling racks. Bam there it is! all the other cage companys would tell you take what they make and be happy not AP if you can dream it they can make it, all you have to do is ask, and feed them lol

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Ali and Mark are both a pleasure to deal with. I own 3 AP cages currently and have owned AP racks in the past. You can't go wrong there.
 
Jabba The Mutt said:
Sry but that goes to Boaphile!
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I will disagree. I currently am using 4 421D, 1 421T, and two different Rhino Raxx all from Boaphile. They work great, however I do not think they are as good as they could be. The material is thin, and difficult to clean. Price for given options are more expensive than AP as well.

I also have cages from Proline and BARRs. The BARRs are ok, but I would only use them for small cages. Proline have no complaints.

I have an AP T10 due soon, and if I like it as much as everyone who uses them does I will be replacing all my Boaphile cages with them.

For racks the jury is still out on the best.
 
If Boaphile are so great why are people selling them and replacing them with AP?
because it's the right thing to do, if you dont own one you should thumbs up AP
the best on the market
 
It's all personal preference...Don't forget to include your name in your posts pythonbreeder.

That being said, I really enjoy AP cages.
 
Forgot to post name

pythonbreeder said:
If Boaphile are so great why are people selling them and replacing them with AP?
because it's the right thing to do, if you dont own one you should thumbs up AP
the best on the market
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Jimmy Horton
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Picked up my 5th Animal Plastics rack at the Arlington NARBC Show last weekend and am very pleased with it.
 
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