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dave, what were the dimensions of this rack that you had? tried searching on the KS pages, but couldnt find where you had written about it.

Also is this your standard caging for your adult males?
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Dave

2.2 Normal BRBs
2.1 Anery BRB
2.4 66% poss het anery BRB
2.5 66% poss het new european line hypo
2.2 het hypo BRB

In the mail from the states
- the entire contents of my credit card

Dave, Don't have the new rack dims handy but I can give you the basic tub dims.....

The original racks I built were made with openings of 6.25" x 20.25" x 40" so I believe the actual tub dims to be 6 1/8" x 19 3/4" x 38 1/2"

Floor area is 16 3/4" x 35 1/2" = 4.13 square feet

My racks are ten high and just under 6' tall overall

It is my new standard for male caging. Way back when I had a different wood cage I housed a single pair in. When I decided to start breeding I built the first of my wood breeder cages 2' x 2' x 19" 8 sections. Then a few years later decided to expand and built a second one for a total of 16 spaces. After that I got some boaphile cages and shortly later looked into tubs and a rack to house animals not actually being bred. I found the CB110 tub to have the most floor space of what I could find without going into an overly high tub. I built two racks 10 high out of hoe improvement store grade melamine. Worked ok but when seriously messy, the melamine would swell and make the tubs a little hard to pull. Next expansion was to go from two to four racks, decided to have them made out of plastic and sold off the two older melamine ones. LOVE the Animal Plastics version of CB110 racks!!

Now I house all females to be bred in the wood cages with a few overflowing into the Boaphiles and two kinda cool cages I picked up in a cage collection I bought. The concept is stackable units, the bottom being 4 old rubermaid brand tub racks, the middle being a shorter tub on bottom with glass door cage on top with a PVC pass-through between. The top being only 6 inches and is for the controls. I have two of these and will be trying them out this year, only for the middle section cage/tub combo. I think it will work well for a single breeding pair. Eventually the lower tubs will house some of my current babies.

Other not to be bred this year and most of my males are in one of my BRB room CB110 tub racks. Notable exception is Fluffy, he gets a boaphile cage section, I like to see him more. Just about to put the second CB110 rack into service to house my growing up subadults.
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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

cheers for the info dave
i have finally managed to find a good (well of course looks good on their website maker of cages in germany, affordable prices, cages and racks, discount if buy a few, and will ship to finland, without breaking the bank. Also a lot of the big breeders in europe seem to use aswell.
Im happy with the rack i made for the shoebox size tubs, it will hold 33 tubs up to yearlings, and think if i found some right size other tubs, i could probably turn it into a 66 spot hatchling rack.
The racks im looking at are 92x55x18cm, which work out a tad shorter, and a tad wider and higher than the CB110 you wrote about dave.
For the girls im looking at either 100x50x50cm or 120x60x60cm with a shelf installed, and using a radiant heat panel. Dave, do you think the smaller or these two cages is enough for an adult female? especially as seeing has a shelf, ie adding more floor space.
cheers

ps im suprised fluffy isnt in your living room in a massive display cage!!!
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Dave

2.2 Normal BRBs
2.1 Anery BRB
2.4 66% poss het anery BRB
2.5 66% poss het new european line hypo
2.2 het hypo BRB

In the mail from the states
- the entire contents of my credit card

Both of those cage options sound good to me and are actually larger than my cages.

Actually easier to maintian temps for Fluffy in the snake room.

Once breeding season is over I may move Fluffy to one of the two double decker cages.

(it's the two stacks on the right)

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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

nice rack system, Dave.

how do U get the heat in there, I know most of the racks use heat tape or such but was just wondering

greets
Leeroy
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arata akebono, shidare yanagi, seijin no mai!

The cages on top have radient heat panels on the ceiling radiating downward. The tubs have heat cable routed in the floor with aluminum channels to help disburse the heat evenly.

They are actually fairly old racks, I've had them a few years and the guy who I got them from probably had them over ten years. I estimate late 80's to early 90's. They were made by Sandmar Industries using top grade materials. Very well constructed and still solid as the day they were first put into use.
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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