Which 41 qt rack to get?

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Originally Posted by JoshSloane

Thanks guys, I actually emailed chris weeks ago and heard nothing back.

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Pretty busy time of year for him with show schedules and increased orders for incoming hatchlings. Once you get a dialogue going with him he's fairly quick to respond. I have a feeling a lot of those lone emails get eaten by the spam folder so just try sending a few emails over the course of a few days. Once you get a response you should be good from there with communications.

I will try to get in touch. Right now I have three sub adult boas and the dwarf male retic. Also looking to get a dwarf female to pair with him. I was planning on having two, 3 level 41qt tub racks for the animals while they are juveniles and progressively move them out into individual cages as they mature. Is there a better or more economical way to do this?

Before I setup my racks, I would use stand-alone tubs.... You can actually make it work pretty cheaply and the animals (boas, BPs, and a carpet in my collection) do well in the tubs.

Since you plan on housing the animals in cages when adults (I'm in exactly the same boat as you), it might be cheaper to just do tubs on some sort of shelving system.

Check out the long ultratherm "strips" they have at reptile basics. I've used one of these to heat 3 smaller tubs and 2 larger tubs.. Using one of these on a shelf will allow you to use one T-stat to control at least 2 tubs at once.

In my case, I put the tubs on a tv shelf unit (2 on top and 1 on each of the 2 shelves below) had 1 ultratherm strip on the top and smaller ultratherms on each shelf.

I think I remember reading somewhere that you aren't using a heated room, correct? If so, that makes it harder... When I was using tubs in an unheated room, I had to use lamps on lamp stands (with dimmers) over the warm end of the tubs to increase ambient temps. I would also stuff towels around them and drape towels over the tops of the tubs to retain heat.

Chris gives his cell number on his site, you might want to try calling him... It took him a while to respond to my first email too (I think the spam folder ate it). I know he has a FB page, but I'm not sure how often he checks it.