Home made hatchling rack!

So I've been (slowly) working on a new hatchling rack the last few months. It's done now and thought I'd show it off. It's a 20 tub setup with 3" heat tape for belly heat. I setup 4 dimmer switches to control each level separately. The whole setup including heat ended up costing me around $60.

So any comments?

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Wow that's super cheap! Nice looking rack

Looks like you did a good job.... Congrats.:gj:

Most expensive parts were the heat tape and dimmer switches.

Very nice looking setup and dirt cheap as well!!!! VERY NICE!!!

Nice setup but I recommend investing in a t-stat for safety.

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How did you treat the wood to protect it from expanding and molding with the humidity?

Regards,

B

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How did you treat the wood to protect it from expanding and molding with the humidity?

Regards,

B

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thats what i was wondering. thats y i didnt go with it to make my rack and got the heavy a** melamine board which i wont do again that crap is heavy and i pain. next will go with a plastic shelf from walmart.

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Originally Posted by Simple Man

How did you treat the wood to protect it from expanding and molding with the humidity?

Regards,

B

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My question as well?? That plywood will start to come apart of not sealed really well.

It all came from previous projects that were treated by my work. Kinda why I decided on the wood. It was pretreated and free since the projects were over. Andi didn't like the t-stat idea on this since each level was 10-20 degree difference and I would need 4 of them to regulate each. I have dimmer swiches to regulate each strip separately to a nice 90 constant.