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Guys, I found a buttload of Sterilte 1960 (41qt.) tubs for sale at Wally World a couple of weeks ago. They were marked down to $5 each (normal price is around $8) because the lids were Christmassy colors. Perfect timing. I bought 10 of them for a new rack that I'm building. And at my local Lowes, I found the 16x36 melamine pre-cut shelves on clearance for $4 instead of $8. Bought those, too. The rack is pretty much done except for heat and cost me almost exactly $200. Sounds like alot, until you look at a manufactured rack that will hold 10 of those tubs. I priced them at around $600.
I'll post some pics soon if anyone wants to see.

This pic is a 3 level prototype of the same design. I've been using it for about a year.

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1.1.0 Hondurans Het Amel
1.1.0 Hondurans Anery, Het Hypo
0.1.0 Honduran Hypo
0.2.0 Pueblans
1.0.0 Thayeri MSP
0.0.1 GBK Blair's Phase
1.0.0 California King
0.0.1 Speckled King WC
0.0.1 Jungle Carpet
0.1.0 Ball, Normal
0.0.1 Sulcata
0.1.0 Girlfriend, Caucasius Mexicana, Fiancee Phase

those zoo meds get realllly hot,l i would watch it on the plastic like that.
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1.4 various boas(Flicka,Felony,Nova,Alias,Alibi,confessa,custody,Ms.Demeanor)
0.1 BRB Abalone; ABBI
1.0 Rott X (OSO)
2.0 cats (Simba, Morris)
fish & feeders

So far no problems with these 4x5 inch mini UTHs. I've been using them for about 18 months. The new rack will have FlexWatt as soon as I can afford it. I did try some of the larger ZooMeds and they DID get pretty hot.

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1.1.0 Hondurans Het Amel
1.1.0 Hondurans Anery, Het Hypo
0.1.0 Honduran Hypo
0.2.0 Pueblans
1.0.0 Thayeri MSP
0.0.1 GBK Blair's Phase
1.0.0 California King
0.0.1 Speckled King WC
0.0.1 Jungle Carpet
0.1.0 Ball, Normal
0.0.1 Sulcata
0.1.0 Girlfriend, Caucasius Mexicana, Fiancee Phase