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Hi everyone, I have some young bloods that are growing fast and I'll need to upgrade their caging soon. I have been researching my options. It looks like a freedom breeder rack (the jumbo 48"w x 6 tall), the boaphile 421D stack or The Animal Plastics T-10. It seems like it would be hard to access the top drawer on the freedom breeder. Also does the freedom breeder retain enough humidity? The 421D looks good but is 11" tall enough for an adult blood? Does the animal plastics have any draw backs? Maybe the heating cable rather than flexwatt? Any opinions about these cages would be helpful. Thanks alot, Andy

i use boaphile 421Ds....i use to have some visions and cagecrafters but have since sold those. I have found the height to be pefect, especially since the bloods are 99% on the ground.

i have never used AP, but Kara Glasgow aka NERD jut got some new AP's, and they look pretty nice.

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I use Animal Plastics & Freedom Breeders & like them equally for different reasons. The 4' Freedom Breeder racks are really nice & give a lot of floor space for these heavy-bodied snakes. You do have to keep an eye on humidity due to the ventilation in these racks, but talk to Lindy (at Freedom Breeder) and see if he'll cut you plastic tops for the racks or give some guidance on what to use to retain humidity (we've used plastic in the past).

By the same token, I personally also love A)white cages and B) front-opening cages, and am really digging Animal Plastics 4' T-10 cages - here's a pic of some I recently received & set up...can't wait for the rest of them to get here!

And a couple of residents in their new enclosures:

So far these have retained a nice humidity level w/o becoming wet or stagnant, and the temps exactly where I want them using a thermostat on the heat cable. I don't have supplemental heat on in that room at this time (although the whole building is heated) and everything is ticking along very nice & consistent.

I think you'd have a hard time going wrong with either AP or Freedom Breeder, based on what your preferences are. As with anything, go with what *you* ultimately like best based on your research!

Hope this helps!

K~

>>Hi everyone, I have some young bloods that are growing fast and I'll need to upgrade their caging soon. I have been researching my options. It looks like a freedom breeder rack (the jumbo 48"w x 6 tall), the boaphile 421D stack or The Animal Plastics T-10. It seems like it would be hard to access the top drawer on the freedom breeder. Also does the freedom breeder retain enough humidity? The 421D looks good but is 11" tall enough for an adult blood? Does the animal plastics have any draw backs? Maybe the heating cable rather than flexwatt? Any opinions about these cages would be helpful. Thanks alot, Andy

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Very nice! Since these are assembled cages, how do you keep the urine and water from leaking between the joined seams? The one upside to Vision, Neodesha and other solid formed enclosures is the ability to keep in fluids flooding the cage. It appears to me that you would have to seal these as you assemble them somehow.
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Yep - AP sends silicone sealant along with the assembly hardware. Just run a bead around the inside bottom of the cage & smooth with water, let dry for 24 hours & you're good to go! I've been nothing but pleased with the "performance" of these cages. 2 thumbs up!

K~

>>Very nice! Since these are assembled cages, how do you keep the urine and water from leaking between the joined seams? The one upside to Vision, Neodesha and other solid formed enclosures is the ability to keep in fluids flooding the cage. It appears to me that you would have to seal these as you assemble them somehow.
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>>Support your local herp society
>>www.chicagoherp.org
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Great looking cages! Even better bloods! Thanks for the info, Has anyone used Reptile basics Inc. cages? They seem to be cheaper in price, but I have never seen one in person.

Very nice Kara did you see my new addition A few post below
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2.5.0 ball python
1.1.0 100% het pied
1.0.0 Blond Pastel
0.1.0 Spider
1.1.0 columbian boa
1.0.0 rat snake (alabastered)
1.1.0 corn snake
0.1.0 Chuckwalla (Jamie)
0.0.2 Bearded Dragon
0.0.1 crested gecko
1.0.0 leopord gecko
4.0.0 Quaker parrot (Woody)(Liam)
1.0.0 Landseer Newfoundland (Mac/Newfy)
0.0.5 whites tree frog (trevor, kirmet)
3.2.0 cats (rockie, bs, brownie, lerrado, kole)
1.3.0 kids (dilyen, dakota, chyanne, sierra)
Brian n Chrissy

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H.S. makes the best enclosures on the planet, period. They cost a fortune, but you get what you pay for...always. You didn't say you had a price range, so if price were no object, then it would be Habitat Systems hands down.
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