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Thought I'd share some pictures since I got so much help here

So I posted a picture of the back first, so what?

Having more problems posting these pictures than I did building the thing

And the stupid air space is working like a charm

The heat tape on the rails like that allowed the to sit back from the tubs and away from the reflectix giving it that all important air space. But it's working great so far. The heat tape runs on and off, only gets up to about 95 degrees, and holds the back side of the tubs at about 89-90 and the front at about 79-80. Some of the tubs are really really tight, I'm gonna have to tweak something there but all in all it's not too bad for my first very over-priced rack. The vinyl has held up to one hell of a beating so far just putting it together and as tight as some of the tubs are it's not showing any signs of tearing......yet.

Congrats on getting your first rack done.

>>Some of the tubs are really really tight, I'm gonna have to tweak something there...

You might cut a couple of spacers and tonail them into either side of the middle of the rack. I imagine you have a small amount of sagging due to how wide your rack is.

Or simply put a thin front support on.

Here is my monster rack, 81.5" x 32" x 50".

You can see I put on a front support that also has a caster on it.

When we moved recently the bottom of that front support snapped off and the rack has still sagged very little. Of course I used hollow-core doors which are pretty rigid to begin with.

A thin piece of material screwed onto the front of your rack will likely help. Since you have an odd number of boxes per row you should probably go ahead and put a support on either side of that middle box.

A support on the back is also a good idea. Not sure if you included that or not. You can see in my picture that I have a 12" wide support on the box. Pegboard on either side of that and then reflectix over that.

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Current snakes:

0.2 Gonyosoma oxycephala - (Silver/Yellow)

3.3 Gonyosoma oxycephala - (Green)

2.1 Gonyosoma janseni - (Black)

3.3 Gonyosoma janseni - (Black & Tan)

>>The heat tape on the rails like that allowed the to sit back from the tubs and away from the reflectix giving it that all important air space. But it's working great so far. The heat tape runs on and off, only gets up to about 95 degrees, and holds the back side of the tubs at about 89-90 and the front at about 79-80. Some of the tubs are really really tight, I'm gonna have to tweak something there but all in all it's not too bad for my first very over-priced rack. The vinyl has held up to one hell of a beating so far just putting it together and as tight as some of the tubs are it's not showing any signs of tearing......yet.

I'm glad everything is working out. Clint
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0.1 Colombian Boa-(Boa Constrictor Imperator) "Honey"
1.0 Hogg Isle Boa-(Boa Constrictor Imperator) "un-named"
1.0 Brazilian Rainbow Boa-(Epicrates Cenchria) "Houdini"
0.1 Argentine Boa-(Boa Constrictor Occidentalis) "Lacie"
0.0.2 Green Tree Python-(Morelia Viridis)Biak type-"Smog" & Sorong type- "un-named"