Hello there!

I'm doing research before I actually buy my ball pythons (generally a good thing, no?), and I'm leaning towards building my own snake rack because it seems to be cheaper financially, and because I have no clue where to look for these things in Canada.

So my dilemma in this is that I'm not very tolerant to heat... My bedroom is currently at 20C (68F), and I'm pretty much at the limit of what I like for heat. This will obviously cause issues for my ball pythons to-come, and where I just may suck it up and learn to deal with extra hot rooms, I'm wondering if there is a way where we both may be able to be happy.

I only have a two bedroom apartment, and where I'm probably going to shove them in a different room than where I sleep, but whenever I add to my collection, my collection is going to be sharing my room, so at least we can have a semi-quarantine, even if it won't be as effective as I'd like. So I'd really just like measures that I could use to improve their condition... In the end, if I have to sleep on the couch for my snakes to be happy and content, I will. Not to mention I'm sacrificing my open windows! Oh the dread!

So... All in all, I blabber, and I'm sorry... Does anyone know of a way where I can use a snake rack system even if my bedroom isn't heated to 80F? (Preferably where I could keep my bedroom at around 17C (62F) so I don't have to crack open a window?

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As another question (might as well use one thread, right?), aside from Melamine, which may be the cheapest wood around here, is there any other products that I can use to build the snake rack? I know not to use some woods because of toxins, but if I knew other ways to build the racks, at least then I'd have a back up plan after I butcher my first attempt! (I'm not even going to get into how little I know about using a thermostat! Teehee! It'll be a huge learning curve for me. I'll make a handywoman out of myself yet.)