Iris CB75's

Please Take Tons Of Step By Step Pics Then You Could Have The Admin People Put It In The Do It Yourself Section. Your Hubby Told Me That These Were A Pice Of Cake To Build. Do You Have Any Built Now That You Can Send Pics Of???
Matt

We just finished assembly of our rack; it holds 6-7 Iris CB-110 tubs. We decided to make it even easier and go pre-cut (48" X 24") pieces of Melamine and just keep them at 6 lidless tubs within the rack and one tub up top to be used as temporary housing to hold the snakes while we clean their tub. Tomorrow we’ll be installing the flexwatt and Helix.


The rack took about 2.5hrs to assemble and cost a total of $220.00 w/seven tubs. Heating will be another $20-$25 in Flexwatt (which we have laying around) and another $125.00 for the Helix, which we’ll order on Monday. Total cost w/flexwatt = $245.00 for a rack that holds 6-7 CB-110 tubs that measure 39" X 20" X 6.5"! With the Helix DBS1000 the total will come out to about $370.00!

Here are some quick pics of the process and the finished rack. In the end you see a 4.5ft Hypo DH Ghost and as you can see he has plenty of room to stretch, cruise around and grow at his leisure. These tubs would easily house a male boa for life and female boas to about 5ft-5.5ft comfortably.


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Nice job Gerry! You guys build rack damn fast! Were the casters regular surface mount types? I think I might need to put casters on the one I built and will definitely put them on the hatchling rack when I build it later this year.

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Originally Posted by jglass38

Nice job Gerry! You guys build rack damn fast! Were the casters regular surface mount types? I think I might need to put casters on the one I built and will definitely put them on the hatchling rack when I build it later this year.

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Hi Jamie, I can ask my husband which casters we used exactly. It's the ones you buy at Home Depot for 1.50 each that are loose in the boxes. Casters definitely help in moving these racks around. The negative with Melamine is the weight, but attach some casters to them and even I can move them for cleaning and what not.

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Originally Posted by ssscales

Hi Jamie, I can ask my husband which casters we used exactly. It's the ones you buy at Home Depot for 1.50 each that are loose in the boxes. Casters definitely help in moving these racks around. The negative with Melamine is the weight, but attach some casters to them and even I can move them for cleaning and what not.

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Awesome! I figured they were the loose ones. I'm going to pick some up. I plan to upgrade my snake room this weekend to a bigger room in the house and it would help to move that rack.