I agree to a point but to think a well made wood/melamine rack isn't an option is crazy. All my racks are made of melamine and built by a good friend of mine that has a cabinet shop. All my shelves are built to within 1/16" tolerance, better than most commercial bought racks. Granted they are heavy as anyone would want but they are very good racks and I'm sure my snakes eat, shed, breed, and just overal live just as good as yours without me having to spend almost 1k per 10 snakes. Overal I have about $200 per rack of 18 tubs and that's including thermo, tubs, heat tape and the rack itself. This is a rack that is built around 32qt tubs with lids off. If space get's tight for hatchlings, 2 12qt tubs fit sideways w/lids where one 32qt tub would fit. Yes it's a pain to have to remove the tub to feed but I like it as you are forced to completely inspect the tub each time you want to look at your beautiful babies.



Granted the new vision racks do look and function wonderfully but for a small breeder building up his/her collection it makes more sense to spend the extra money on snakes as long as they can provide escape-proof caging that meets or exceeds their needs.
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Josh & Krysty Hutto

J&K Reptiles



Various Ball Pythons:::



1.0 striped vanilla

1.2 Citrus Ghost and hets

1.2 Albino and hets

2.3 het Pied

1.1 Pastel (male has additional gene going on with him)

a bunch of female holdbacks and several rescue normal males



0.1 columbian boa, she's a feeding monster, controls my

over production of rats, lol

0.1 brazilian rainbow boa, another rat eating monster

1.1 corns





a BAD dog is MADE not bred, support the American Pit Bull Terrier as the greatest breed of dogs on Earth!!!!!

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