Building a Colony - A few questions

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Originally Posted by Oxylepy

Where do you get these mortar tubs?

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Home Depot or Lowes or possibly any other hardware store. They're usually in building materials near the concrete tools.

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Originally Posted by Oxylepy

Where do you get these mortar tubs?

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The rack design I use is the one on Clay Davenport's site, http://www.arbreptiles.com. His uses the Lowe's cement tubs, and I've never had a problem finding good ones that are well molded. They're durable and easy to clean, so I like them. I highly recommend going with a bottom support tub, as I find it easier to work with, and we've been building all of our racks with the bottom support since this summer.

You can alter the rack slightly (very easy if you're using bottom support) for a different brand mortar tub, like the ones at Home Depot or any other hardware store. They're generally found near the lumber where they have the dry concrete.

Check the measurements of your tubs. I recently built a couple of racks going on dimensions that I used for other racks I had built only to find that the tubs Home Depot carries are now 1/4 inch wider than they used to be.

That was a fun day.