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I've noticed there has been several post lately regarding building your own snake rack or buying one, so I thought I'd post a picture of ours. My room mate and I built this using 3/4" melamine. It took 2 sheets of 4' x 8'. Plus the heat tape and ECU temperature controller we ordered from BoasAndBalls.com. Total cost was just a hair under 200 bucks for everything.
As you can see, we're only using the top 2 shelves so far. It'll hold 28 babies or 14 adults.
I definitely do not consider myself a carpenter at all, but this was relatively simple to build. It takes up 1/5 the space as our aquariums did, and will easily hold 5 times the amount of snakes.

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1.0 Pastel Ball
1.1 Het VPI Axanthic Balls
1.1 Het Albino Balls
0.0.2 Red Tail Boas
1.0 Albino Nelsoni Milksnake
1.1 Room mates
2.2 Dogs
0.1 Cat

Nice rack, I just built these this past week. The 3 sheets of birch, and the light rope cost me just under 200 as well. I have the trim guns, and saws already so it was a piece of cake.

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1.0 Albino with het female
1.0 Spider
1.0 cinnamon
1.1 Het genetic stripes-900 and 1500 grams
0.4 pastels
0.17 normal females

We also make ours out of Melamin and I think they work out wonderfully. They may not hold up as well in the long run, but plastics tend to hold alot more moisture so we are switching to all melamin. Sorry the rooms are a little messy, the pics are old, and we were moving things around. We still have plastic baby racks, but I feel our breeders breed better in the melamin adult racks.
Kim
N.A.R.C

Very nice! What size tubs do you use for your adult females? We built our rack to fit the 14qt and 28qt tubs for babies and sub-adults. Possibly for adult males... I'm sure you know those are 5.9" tall.
I'm thinking I'll have to use CB70's for our females when they get bigger and those are 6" tall. That .1 of an inch means I have to build another rack for our breeder females, when that time comes...
And I agree, I particularly like the melamine. Its sturdy, easy to clean, and looks nice.

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1.0 Pastel Ball
1.1 Het VPI Axanthic Balls
1.1 Het Albino Balls
0.0.2 Red Tail Boas
1.0 Albino Nelsoni Milksnake
1.1 Room mates
2.2 Dogs
0.1 Cat

We use Sterilite 32qts for all of our adult females. We have a few girls that are huge, but they seem to prefer the smaller cages over the larger plastic rack we use to have for them.
Kim
N.A.R.C

Nice job! What is the screening material you used on the shelves? It appears that using the screening material would eliminate putting ventilation holes in the tubs. Where can you get it and approximately how much $.

We use peg board as a back board if that is what you mean. It does help the racks to breathe better. It is very cheap we get it at home depot. One full rack which holds 5 adults takes 1 sheet of Melamin with almost no scrap. All of the insides are rowtered out so the heat tape sits flush with the board and the tubs slide very nicley in and out.
Kim

nice racks everyone

i'm a carpenter and i built my racks also.

instead of melamine that i think is crap, i used MDF board,
it is better and cheaper

just some info