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Hello All,

This summer I took on the task of building my first snake rack. I built it to house my 1.3 group of BRBs. I made the rack from 3/4'' melamine, and use the IRIS VE175 tubs. I really like the tubs large size which gives the snakes more than enough room and am happy with the steady heat and humidity levels I am able to create with this rack. Please comment and don't be shy, I'd be interested to know what you think both good or bad.

I heat the rack with heat tape and control it's temperature with a Herpstat Pro.

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Ike Lightner

1.3 BRB (Dugo, Roxy, Brazita, & Lucille)

sorry I am still only able to post three pics per message so here are the last few rack pics. Thanks for looking!

Oh yeah, and I went ahead and threw in one pic of my 07' Dave Colling female Brazita. I know it's a blurry pic but you can sitll see her colors pretty well.

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Ike Lightner

1.3 BRB (Dugo, Roxy, Brazita, & Lucille)

Hey Ike, nice looking rack!!!

To post multiple pics in one post you need to get the pic address. I see you are using the KS photo gallery, to get your addresses, go to the photo area and get your individual pic up and displayed. (sometimes there is a larger image option) Then right click on pic and select properties from drop down menu. In the properties is the actual address, copy paste that.

for example, here is the address of one of your pics...

http://gallery.kingsnake.com/data/129579rack_1.jpg

to get it to show you need to add img tags like this (note - I have added spaces in the img tags so they won't work and you can see them)

[i mg]http://gallery.kingsnake.com/data/129579rack_1.jpg[/i mg]

and again without the spaces and your pic shows up...

one nice thing is you can add text between the pics, all your pics with comments....

Here's the rack where it goes in the corner, compolete with drink on top (or is that a candle?)

Here is a tup open, with chip substrate, water shoebox and moss hide box

See how easy access lidless racks are??

And you can store your hook along side a tub.

Brazita a stunning female from some breeder guy

One hand is all it takes to close the tub, leaving the other hand free for a cold beverage etc. Note the hemostats stored alongside the other tub.

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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
26.49 BRB
20.21 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

Leave it to the expert on multiple pics (and not just 5 or 6, more like 100's LOL) to give an amusing and informative view on how to post multiple pics.

Only disadvantage is it takes time to get the URL of each picture and add the img tags at either end then use preview to make sure the coding is right...

but the results are nice...
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PHLdyPayne

Yeah, MUCH easier to use Photobucket dot com, tey give you the address with tags included!!!
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
26.49 BRB
20.21 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

Thanks for the info Dave. Ha I should just start emailing you what I plan to post and then you can make it professional and go ahead and narrate it for me, ha your descriptions were spot on! At any rate thanks for the reply and good luck with the rest of this BRB season.
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Ike Lightner

1.3 BRB (Dugo, Roxy, Brazita, & Lucille)

thats damn sexy, how much did it cost?

Im still using 40 breeder tanks (glass)
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Russ
0.1 Australian Shepherd
1.0 Basset Hound
0.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boas
1.0 Columbian Rainbow Boa
1.0 Guyana Red-Tail Boa
0.1 Pastel Salmon Boa
1.1 Hog Island Boas
0.1 Rosy Boa
2.7 leopard Geckos
0.0.1 White Throat
Melbourne, Fl

>>Im still using 40 breeder tanks (glass)

You know how much I hate fish tanks being used to house rainbows!!!
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
26.49 BRB
20.21 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

unfortunately i only have one rainbow left . . . its a columbian

::cry::
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Russ
0.1 Australian Shepherd
1.0 Basset Hound
0.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boas
1.0 Columbian Rainbow Boa
1.0 Guyana Red-Tail Boa
0.1 Pastel Salmon Boa
1.1 Hog Island Boas
0.1 Rosy Boa
2.7 leopard Geckos
0.0.1 White Throat
Melbourne, Fl

Sorry to hear that. You're downsizing to move right? Where ya going and will you be upsizing again sometime?
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
26.49 BRB
20.21 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

Yea . . we're moving into an apartment and having double digit snakes wasn't int he cards, not that easy to hide. . .

Yea i am getting rid of the hog islands and then I'm done (defiantly cant have the huge snakes around ATM)

So that leaves me with 2 red tails and a rainbow, and some leppy geckos. . .

kinda sad

I'm sure ill get back into it soon. . and i still might try to pick up a baby rainbow, my GF says she might buy me one for x-mas. . who knows?

But yea i am finishing up college ATM so things are hectic.
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Russ
0.1 Australian Shepherd
1.0 Basset Hound
1.0 Columbian Rainbow Boa
1.0 Guyana Red-Tail Boa
0.1 Pastel Salmon Boa
1.1 Hog Island Boas
2.7 leopard Geckos
Melbourne, Fl

Sorry to hear that but I'm sure you'll get that turned around and into a better place where you can get back into the hobby more. And of course you're always welcome here!!!!!!
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
26.49 BRB
20.21 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

Just curious; why'd you get rid of the brazilian and keep the columbian?

>>unfortunately i only have one rainbow left . . . its a columbian
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>>::cry::
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>>Russ
>>0.1 Australian Shepherd
>>1.0 Basset Hound
>>0.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boas
>>1.0 Columbian Rainbow Boa
>>1.0 Guyana Red-Tail Boa
>>0.1 Pastel Salmon Boa
>>1.1 Hog Island Boas
>>0.1 Rosy Boa
>>2.7 leopard Geckos
>>0.0.1 White Throat
>>Melbourne, Fl
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Renee
1.0 BRB (Loki)
2.0 amel & anery corns (Foxfire & Daguerre)
0.1 blood python (Duchess, arriving later this month)
1.1 Cats (Nightshade & Cuzzy)

The Brazilian wasn't mine exactly, it was apart of a breeding project gone wrong.

Long story short, MY Brazilian got out of the bin that they were breeding in, which was the male. . so blah, he was my favorite snake of my collection
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Russ
0.1 Australian Shepherd
1.0 Basset Hound
1.0 Columbian Rainbow Boa
1.0 Guyana Red-Tail Boa
0.1 Pastel Salmon Boa
1.1 Hog Island Boas
2.7 leopard Geckos
Melbourne, Fl

Awww... I'm sorry to hear that!!
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5.19 BRB
10.20 BCI
0.1 Kenyan Sand Boa
0.1 Albino Corn Snake
2.8 Leopard Geckos

You mean your male BRB disappeared and you never found him again? That really sucks!

Some day you'll be in a place where you can get another...and by then there will probably be 10 billion (approximate estimate)different BRB morphs to choose from!

>>The Brazilian wasn't mine exactly, it was apart of a breeding project gone wrong.
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>>Long story short, MY Brazilian got out of the bin that they were breeding in, which was the male. . so blah, he was my favorite snake of my collection
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>>Russ
>>0.1 Australian Shepherd
>>1.0 Basset Hound
>>1.0 Columbian Rainbow Boa
>>1.0 Guyana Red-Tail Boa
>>0.1 Pastel Salmon Boa
>>1.1 Hog Island Boas
>>2.7 leopard Geckos
>>Melbourne, Fl
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Renee
1.0 BRB (Loki)
2.0 amel & anery corns (Foxfire & Daguerre)
0.1 blood python (Duchess, arriving later this month)
1.1 Cats (Nightshade & Cuzzy)

hopefully it wont take THAT long
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Russ
0.1 Australian Shepherd
1.0 Basset Hound
1.0 Columbian Rainbow Boa
1.0 Guyana Red-Tail Boa
0.1 Pastel Salmon Boa
1.1 Hog Island Boas
2.7 leopard Geckos
Melbourne, Fl

Yeah, at the rate Dave and Jeff are going, I figure they'll probably have all those morphs by next year.

>>hopefully it wont take THAT long
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>>Russ
>>0.1 Australian Shepherd
>>1.0 Basset Hound
>>1.0 Columbian Rainbow Boa
>>1.0 Guyana Red-Tail Boa
>>0.1 Pastel Salmon Boa
>>1.1 Hog Island Boas
>>2.7 leopard Geckos
>>Melbourne, Fl
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Renee
1.0 BRB (Loki)
2.0 amel & anery corns (Foxfire & Daguerre)
0.1 blood python (Duchess, arriving later this month)
1.1 Cats (Nightshade & Cuzzy)

Hey thanks, I thought the same thing myself.

As far as how much it cost lets see here, the wood I bought 3 sheets of 4X8 melamine that ran me about $90, the 4 tubs were the most expensive thing for me and they cost $120 in all, the heat tape was cheap at something like $2 per foot and I bought 6 feet worth, and lastly the thermostat was a little over $100, so I guess it cost me something like $350, not including my time spent on the project which I'd estimate I spent somewhere around 15-20 hours on it, but seeing that it was my first rack build I would think any future builds would take less time.
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Ike Lightner

1.3 BRB (Dugo, Roxy, Brazita, & Lucille)