Tank vs. Rack

[RoyalBlue]

I'm a fairly new snake owner, I recently took in my brother's 5/yo BP as he's gone to college and couldn't give her enough time and attention. He had the snake in a tank and I followed the sticky on setting up a 20Gal tank to make sure I set everything up properly. I absolutely love this animal and I think I may want to get another in the future (not anytime soon). So I was just wondering since I am new to this if I were to get another snake in the future, the pros and cons or differences and benefits to having BP's in tanks vs. a rack system. I've read a lot on here and watched some videos on YouTube and it seems like most people do prefer the rack system due to humidity problems with tanks. I wanted to get some opinions from people on here, this seems to be a good site to go to for advice so any information you have would be great!!

[enginee837]

If you want to display the animal, tank. If you want the best use of space, rack. Pretty much sums it up.

[Zincubus]

You can manage humidity easily enough in tanks or vivariums - no problem .

If you have a few I'd use vivs or tanks as their display value is priceless and grossly underestimated in my view - I have 21 snakes and 24 viv setups ..

If you want to have 30 plus and go into breeding than I guess re rubs are the better option - simply to save space like the person above correctly said .

[Zincubus]

Why would anyone want to keep a stunning creatures like the ones below , hidden away in a plastic box .

Few of my collection ..

[Zincubus]

It's your decision of course

[Morgoth]

What's the snake in the 3rd picture? the orange one with black stripes. It is absolutely gorgeous.

[Zincubus]

What's the snake in the 3rd picture? the orange one with black stripes. It is absolutely gorgeous.

Don't recall the fancy name but I bought it as a Thai Red Bamboo rat snake although I've seen them sold as Chinese Bamboo snakes as well .
It's my scariest snake and it's only 12" long

[bcr229]

What's the snake in the 3rd picture? the orange one with black stripes. It is absolutely gorgeous.

Red Thai bamboo rat snake, or O. p. coxi.