New racks New snake, not a bad week.

Made some more room for things that are growing up, just need to get tubs tomorrow. This is my first time using herpstats new line of thermostats and I absolutely love it. alarms, mechanical protection, built in night drop, probe that unplug, and a well laid out interface are all very welcome improvements over my old ones. I even got a style that easily flush mounts yay!

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Then I also picked myself up a old freedom breeder rodent rack, 45x tubs, just needs new valves and a water bucket. Not bad for 250 bucks :)

I was also happy to pick up this guy, he is the founding father to one of the dinker projects I have been waiting to play with. As babies the snakes don't look like much, but as they grow up they get much lighter. Kinda like fire, but not quite. I just started breeding the females I have from him about a month ago, so he won't be seeing them this year, hopefully next year I can see if there is a super. He will be seeing the vanilla later this season, looks like it has a shot at being in the BlkEL complex, so I'm trying it. I put him next to my other spider just to show the difference.

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yup great week for me :)

That rack looks awesome! I made mine in June, and I was proud of myself for making a nice rack. But then I see this, I took a picture on my phone and sent it to my girlfriend with the caption: I want. You should go into detail about how you made it. You know, for the others who may want to build another rack.

Here are some build pictures when I built my hatchling rack http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...ck-heated-rack

I built this one in the same style, however I think an easier variation would be to make the back a solid piece to screw on the back instead of each back piece being sandwiched between the shelves. then you could wire up the heat tape and put the back piece on in one shot. Little less support but nothing necessary for a rack. Any questions feel free to ask.