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I would love to see what people use as racks or cages or whatever for their collection. Not only their collection but the babies that they have and where they keep them. I am really interested to see how people store their babies before selling them and also some of the racks for babies and larger boas. Just a request, I would really appreciate it.
Thanks
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1.1 Motley het butter corns
0.1 Snow corn
0.1 Okeetee corn
1.0 Anery mutt corn
0.1 Stripe Ghost corn
0.1 Amelanistic corn het carmel
2.1 Colombian Redtails
1.0 Hypo Colombian redtail
1.0 Brazilian Rainbow Boa
1.0 Anery Kenyan sand boa
0.1 Normal Kenyan sand boa

formerly known as the closet in the snake room

Hatchlings in the middle and a bit bigger on the sides.

Pics of making the racks:

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Thanks,

Dave "Rainbows-R-Us"

0.1 Wife (WC)
0.2 kids (CBB)
4.12 Brazilian Rainbow Boa
2.1 Hypomelanistic BRB
0.1 Het for Hypomelanistic BRB
0.1 BCI "Elvira" normal from 1989
1.0 BCI albino / het-anery
0.1 BCI Hypo / het-albino
0.1 BCI Anery / het-albino
0.1 BCI Hypo (possible super)
1.0 BCI albino het stripe
1.0 BCI salmon hypo
0.1 BCI ghost

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

Very good job building those racks. They look really good.
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Joel Pretz

Thank you, I got some ideas from the cage forum and went to town. Also had visited another herper and saw his closet setup. I took the idea and expanded on it so I could best utilize the space in my closet. After playing with designs that is the one I settled on, A stack of Boaphile Rhino Raxx shoebox in the middle left just enough room on either side for a pair of hand crafted melamine stacks for Sterilite 1754 tubs. I went lidded on the Sterilite racks due mainly to the angle for insertion/extraction of tubs. Also allowed me to use the ready to go melamine shelving from home depot, no edge banding required.
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Thanks,

Dave "Rainbows-R-Us"

0.1 Wife (WC)
0.2 kids (CBB)
4.12 Brazilian Rainbow Boa
2.1 Hypomelanistic BRB
0.1 Het for Hypomelanistic BRB
0.1 BCI "Elvira" normal from 1989
1.0 BCI albino / het-anery
0.1 BCI Hypo / het-albino
0.1 BCI Anery / het-albino
0.1 BCI Hypo (possible super)
1.0 BCI albino het stripe
1.0 BCI salmon hypo
0.1 BCI ghost

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

One thing I'd do differently if I had 20/20 foresight

Make the melamine racks slightly wider, in fact make than so wide they would just barely fit in the closet. Then I could also use the double sized tub to the 1754 (don't remember the number) sideways. Ah well, still works great.
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Thanks,

Dave "Rainbows-R-Us"

0.1 Wife (WC)
0.2 kids (CBB)
4.12 Brazilian Rainbow Boa
2.1 Hypomelanistic BRB
0.1 Het for Hypomelanistic BRB
0.1 BCI "Elvira" normal from 1989
1.0 BCI albino / het-anery
0.1 BCI Hypo / het-albino
0.1 BCI Anery / het-albino
0.1 BCI Hypo (possible super)
1.0 BCI albino het stripe
1.0 BCI salmon hypo
0.1 BCI ghost

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

I THINK IT LOOKS GREAT !!
I also use a room and a closet to keep my animals. My snake room is so small so I tought I use the closet also.
Great, thank you,
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Joel Pretz

Do you use just wood glue to hold the shelves in place or an I just not seeing the screws?
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Thank you,
Dave

Pocket hole screws from underneath the shelves:

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Thanks,

Dave "Rainbows-R-Us"

0.1 Wife (WC)
0.2 kids (CBB)
4.12 Brazilian Rainbow Boa
2.1 Hypomelanistic BRB
0.1 Het for Hypomelanistic BRB
0.1 BCI "Elvira" normal from 1989
1.0 BCI albino / het-anery
0.1 BCI Hypo / het-albino
0.1 BCI Anery / het-albino
0.1 BCI Hypo (possible super)
1.0 BCI albino het stripe
1.0 BCI salmon hypo
0.1 BCI ghost

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats