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just using hollow core bye fold doors
my dream is almost complet
a new building half reptile and half custom jewelry
i will be able to stay home and work at the things i love most.

Just wondering how you run the heat on your metal shelves? I have some that I just set up, and haven't run the heat yet. I am most interested in how you heat the top bins of the double stacks?

Here is my rack

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Jenea

2:3 Tricolor Hognose
2:1 Eastern Hognose
1:2 Western Hognose
2:2 Southern Hognose
0:0:2 Florida Redbelly Snakes
0:1 Gulf Coast Box Turtle
1:1 Red-eared Slider
1:2:2 Mediterranean Geckos
2:0 Cats
1:1 Kids
1:0 Spouse

Hi Jenea, my reptile room is temp controlled for 85 day 78 nite the way the room is constructed with four inches of solid foam walls and six inches on the roof it seems easy to maintain temp. In your case I think you should go to single stack for heat tape . You could have home depot cut peg board in a 6 in. by 48 in. pieces and zip tie to the polls in the back then use aluminum tape to attach heat tape to the peg board , however I don’t now how efficient that would be.
Tom

man things are starting to come together nice for the new place and it looks great .. good luck with it all ! LB