Building my first rack

Bad quality... I apologize

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Looking good. :)

Thanks, it's getting there!

Gotta order heat, and fill in the gap on the bottoms of the shelves with ply. I didn't take into account that I needed space to fit tub covers, so now they only fit without them! Which is good because it's a nice fit. Then prime/paint. It will be a few weeks until I get everything going.

Also, I checked out your iHerp page and created my own. I like how I am able to track the feeding, cleaning etc, it's kind of cool and will help me with expenses greatly. Not sure what else I can do with it, but very neat.

I've been getting the itch to attempt to build a rack myself. (I went and built a nice custom enclosure, but now wish I had a rack instead.)

I think that is probably a good thing that you can't fit the lids on -- I think most people do that intentionally.

I was wondering about heating the rack that I might build. I live in Minnesota, and during the winter we keep our thermostat at 68 degrees. I don't want to get a space heater or anything like that. Would just using belly heat keep the ambiants in a rack system where they need to be (for a BP).

I am using a herpstat II currently -- so I can control two heat sources. Has anyone used flexwatt for belly heat with a strip on the warm side, and a strip on the cool side, for a total of two pieces of flexwatt per shelf?

Thanks,

George