I'm building my first one and only snake rack!

Hello everyone!

I just wanted to share with you all on my snake rack building project.
It's my first time and I've never built anything before so I'm super exiting! And I think I'm doing pretty well also and I can't wait to see the finish result.
First of, I did some research on how to build a home made rack on youtube and google. Then I started to draw some sketches of how I wanted my snake rack to look like. For a few days I went out looking for the perfect tubs (and I have to say.. It's really hard to get good tubs here where I live) but finally I found a good store with exactly the tubs I were look for! After that I measured and calculated how large shelves I would need to have and went off once again to buy what I needed.
I had to pay 100 EUR with everything including the tubs so that's really good.
Yesterday I finally started my project on building it! I got half way but had to take a break because I got some serious fever and I'm really sick for the moment so I have to finish my project hopefully tomorrow.
My husband is laughing at me for the moment saying my rack will look terrible because I'm a girl building it but I'll show him. ;) (my husband can be a pain in the butt sometimes)
But anyway, I may send some picture later on my project if you like to see the finish results when it's done?

With kind regards Linn

(I hope you can read what I write, English is not my strongest language.)

Hope it turns out great! Be sure and post pics!

Hello and sorry for the delay, I've been very ill but I'm finally good to go so I finished my project today. Or almost finished, I still haven't make some holes on the tubs yet but there's no rush. But I think I need some help about which UTH I should use and exactly which one of the thermostats will make a good job? And how do you plug in so many heat pads or heat tapes in one thermostat? Or do you need more than one thermostat? I would be glad for some advice.

Here's a picture of the rack.
http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/2894/idzy.jpg

Awesooome. :D I recommend using Flexwatt, And what I do is use a power bar, plug all this different pieces of flexwatt into it, and then plug that into your thermostat. :)

What I mean when I say 'power bar':

http://images.palcdn.com/hlr-system/...48/8448722.jpg

The rack looks really good.

I recommend THG heat tape over flexwatt heat tape. THG heats more evenly and consistently. It also uses less power than flexwatt.

You can plug all of your heat tape into a power strip, then plug your power strip into your thermostat.

I don't know what thermostats you have available, but I recommend Herpstats by Spyder Robotics. They are very good.

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Hello everyone and thanks for the tips.
I'll just do a quick update. I have moved my snake to the rack now a while ago and everything works perfectly. He has shed its skin perfectly and eats like a horse. And he put on weight very quickly now, I've noticed. Soon I'll be off to a reptile exhibition and fill up with more snakes that also going to live in the rack and then I'll begin my journey to breed ball pythons. :)

I will post some pictures of what it looks like soon.