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Re: DIY Large Rack
sean....i'm curious as to why you put the heat strip near the front of the tub.also do you use hides?
BTW your rack has given me some ideas for my next rack,great job !
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Re: DIY Large Rack
Originally Posted by twh
sean....i'm curious as to why you put the heat strip near the front of the tub.also do you use hides?
BTW your rack has given me some ideas for my next rack,great job !
Thanks for the compliment
As for the heat when I first built it I wanted to make sure they were working correctly and that I was getting uniform heat distribution so I put the bars up front so I could get to them easier. This rack has been up for almost a year now, with no issues, so the heat strips are in the back now.
My rack is in a quiet room so I only use hides on a few young girls that are picky about eating...the rest don't have them and don't appear to mind at all.
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Re: DIY Large Rack
Originally Posted by twh
sean....i'm curious as to why you put the heat strip near the front of the tub.also do you use hides?
BTW your rack has given me some ideas for my next rack,great job !
I'm building a rack system currently and was going to put the heat strips in front. Your rack gave me the idea in a way. I figured BP's spend most of their time on the hot side and by making the hot side the front you would not have to pull the tub out as far to access them or the female when she lays her eggs normally on the hot side! I guess that isn't why you did it.
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Re: DIY Large Rack
Originally Posted by Gloryhound
I'm building a rack system currently and was going to put the heat strips in front. Your rack gave me the idea in a way. I figured BP's spend most of their time on the hot side and by making the hot side the front you would not have to pull the tub out as far to access them or the female when she lays her eggs normally on the hot side! I guess that isn't why you did it.
I agree with your logic my concern was since I don't use hides that the back is darker and that they might feel more secure (the tubs are transparent so more light and movement would be seen up front. In the end it probably doesn't matter.
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Re: DIY Large Rack
What's the best thickness of flexwatt to use on these racks? 4", 6" or 11" wide?
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Re: DIY Large Rack
very nice Im thinking about changing my racks up for something new, I defintely like what you did and Im going to incorporate it into my new rack system
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Re: DIY Large Rack
Originally Posted by Drake_Marcus
What's the best thickness of flexwatt to use on these racks? 4", 6" or 11" wide?
It really depends on the amount of heat you need. In my case the room is heated so I used 3" which is also the same thickness as the metal channeling I used to support the heat with. If you could figure out a support you could use whatever size flexwatt you wanted to.
Hope this helps.
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Re: DIY Large Rack
Originally Posted by MDB
very nice Im thinking about changing my racks up for something new, I defintely like what you did and Im going to incorporate it into my new rack system
Thank you...I have changed this rack a couple of times...the top now has a custom cage I built for my yearling Burm (used to be a hatchling rack)...so the rack has lots of uses depending on need and configuration.
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Re: DIY Large Rack
Originally Posted by lord jackel
It really depends on the amount of heat you need. In my case the room is heated so I used 3" which is also the same thickness as the metal channeling I used to support the heat with. If you could figure out a support you could use whatever size flexwatt you wanted to.
Hope this helps.
I'm in eastern Canada and my room is usually around 20 degrees C in the winter, if not a tad cooler. Standard under tank heater pads that petstores sell (the kind that stick on the glass from below) only seem to bring my 60 gal aquarium up to about 80 F...
I'm planing to copy your rack but use the sterilite tubs walmart sells that are about 33 inches long (41 qt?). My girlfriend gives me hell about it being too small for the snakes otherwise. I'm thinking I should do 5 rows with 4 bins in each row. I'm not a huge fan of the idea of buying 10 41 qt bins when they're $14 each! But I need to set the rack up for 10 snakes now with room to expand later.
What do you think?
I've already purchased a pair of Ranco temperature controllers.
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Re: DIY Large Rack
what kinds of 2x4 did you use
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