If these are just the typical corn, rat, king, milk, etc. hatchlings then a lidless rack is hard to beat. Only notable exceptions to this would be for some of the smallest milksnake hatchlings which are very good escape artists. Also things like baby house snakes are supposed to be good escape artists, or so I've been told.

What kind of hatchlings do you mean?

Another choice is to build a rack around those Phillip shoeboxes. But not a lidless rack in this case. Those Phillips boxes have a deep/straight lip on the lid that overlaps the box by quite a bit. What you can do is build a "sloppy" rack where the gap between the top of the lid and the upper shelf is about 3/16". The reason why it works is that if the snake pushes the lid up 3/16" the box is still secure as the lid is still hanging over the box.

This is still one of the prefered ways to keep tiny hatchlings and/or hatchlings of venomous species.

The kicker is that you have to find the Phillips boxes.

You can still use the lids on readily available shoe boxes but then you have to build the rack with pretty tight tolerances. But like the previous reply stated, this is really not that difficult.

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• Keeping hatchlings - metalpest, Thu Jan 12 02:18:31 2006
• RE: Keeping hatchlings - rainbowsrus, Thu Jan 12 10:53:56 2006
• RE: Keeping hatchlings - metalpest, Thu Jan 12 14:24:21 2006
• RE: Keeping hatchlings - rainbowsrus, Thu Jan 12 15:53:32 2006
• RE: Keeping hatchlings - metalpest, Thu Jan 12 23:10:59 2006
• clarification - PMHerps, Fri Jan 13 07:08:10 2006
• RE: clarification - rainbowsrus, Fri Jan 13 11:05:38 2006
• RE: Keeping hatchlings - chris_harper2, Thu Jan 12 13:54:50 2006
• RE: Keeping hatchlings - metalpest, Thu Jan 12 14:27:28 2006
• RE: Keeping hatchlings - chris_harper2, Thu Jan 12 14:38:43 2006
• RE: Keeping hatchlings - metalpest, Thu Jan 12 15:11:36 2006
• RE: Keeping hatchlings - chris_harper2, Thu Jan 12 15:28:55 2006
• RE: Then buy the racks. See links inside - - markg, Thu Jan 12 22:39:43 2006
• RE: Then buy the racks. See links inside - - metalpest, Thu Jan 12 23:11:14 2006
• RE: Then buy the racks. See links inside - - patenaud, Tue Jan 17 04:41:50 2006