New RBI Rack!!

[icygirl]

Binder clips SUCK, and so do those gigantic metal shelving units. So I sprung for an upgrade. I am now housing my ball pythons in a quarter of the space they used to be in... this is great!! Check out the difference...

The old setup...


And the upgrade!! (Acu-rites coming soon, I forgot them)


Jake, my corn, is in the big tub on the top. I plan to eventually switch him to a 20 gallon long tank and make him a display animal... he's just too gorgeous and fun to watch.

One thing though, I could only fit one of Caspie's hides in her tank (she is about 1400g). Do you think she will do all right with just one hide? She used to have two on either side and would alternate between them.

Once again two thumbs up to Reptile Basics.

[Jsh]

Nice rack lol. These racks seem great and worth the upgrade and I'm stuck between Jasons-jungle or RBI. I need one soon so I better make up my mind. Thanks for sharing, --Josh.

[BrucenBruce]

Rich makes the good stuff, don't he?

Nice little setup, Icygirl! I know that some keepers of ball pythons remove hides as their animals get older. I've got eight tubs worth of RBI CB-70 rack, with a RBI hide on the warm end, and a plastic water bowl / hide on the cool. Most of my snakes spend most of their time under the water bowls, LOL.

I would be cautious about keeping the rack on carpet - I found that the carpet will push the center of the bottom up so that the tubs can be difficult to pull out or replace. A piece of plywood under the rack would solve this pretty handily. (It's what Rich recommends on his instruction sheet - but I didn't read it the first time, and as with most things, found out the hard way!)

~Bruce

[icygirl]

Rich makes the good stuff, don't he?

Nice little setup, Icygirl! I know that some keepers of ball pythons remove hides as their animals get older. I've got eight tubs worth of RBI CB-70 rack, with a RBI hide on the warm end, and a plastic water bowl / hide on the cool. Most of my snakes spend most of their time under the water bowls, LOL.

I would be cautious about keeping the rack on carpet - I found that the carpet will push the center of the bottom up so that the tubs can be difficult to pull out or replace. A piece of plywood under the rack would solve this pretty handily. (It's what Rich recommends on his instruction sheet - but I didn't read it the first time, and as with most things, found out the hard way!)

~Bruce

I read that in the instructions and I do intend on getting some plywood soon... thanks I also noticed the frame seems to sit a little uneven on the carpet. So I think the plywood helps the lifetime of the rack too.

Two of my snakes used to make a game out of flipping their plastic water bowls (especially my corn), and one day I found my corn curled up underneath his flipped water bowl... he ended up getting some scale rot after that. Needless to say they both have ceramic bowls now. My other two still have plastic because they don't generally flip their bowls over, but I intend on replacing theirs as well.... Crazy snakes, don't they know what hides are for??

[icygirl]

Oh well here's something fun... Besides the rack, there are 3 visible things in pic #2 that I bought from Reptile Basics. Who can name them all?

[Jsh]

Scale, hides?(came with?), Chlorhexadine? --Josh

[icygirl]

Scale, hides?(came with?), Chlorhexadine? --Josh

Correct!!

[Jsh]

Sweet. --Josh