Tub Options

[Freakie_frog]

In years past when I was going to expand and build racks this meant that I had to hunt to find a good price on 28 or 30 quart tubs. Then I would run into the issue of having the manufacture change the design or the tub by adding handles, changing dimensions, ect. As a result many of my racks are different height's. well I found a solution to the problem.

Taking a page from the ARS book I decided on a Bus tub for my next three racks. they are black so security wont be an issue, thin so heating isn't a problem and they are never changing..

so here to being consistent from now on.

[Knytemare]

Pretty sweet, and pretty clever

[llovelace]

Ahaaaaa, very good Ed!!

[Jessica Loesch]

Awesome, and where does one acquire those? I love that idea, and I may use it for the future!

[saber2th]

Now with the tub being black, wouldn't it be dark inside the tub 24/7 and throw your snakes sense of day and night out of whack?

just a thought,

Dave

[knox]

I believe they spend most of their time in holes or hollowed out tree trunks, don't they?

If so, the day/night cycle is irrelevant.

I could be wrong, though.

[Freakie_frog]

I believe they spend most of their time in holes or hollowed out tree trunks, don't they?

If so, the day/night cycle is irrelevant.

I could be wrong, though.

It was a long time belief that these animals needed a light cycle, but we are starting to understand that they don't need the light as much as we thought. So I'm hoping the black tubs will actually help.

[jarradw]

While I do not breed mine yet, so I cannot comment on that side of things, but I have had them in black tubs for over a year now and I have noticed a great improvement with my picky eater and overall temperament of the others. They used to hang out in hides all day anyways, so I assume they think they are in a big one all day now. Every time I open a tub they are looking for the sunglasses and asking to go back to bed My tubs are actually Halloween clearance tubs so they are slightly translucent, but the snakes are doing very well in there and it only cost me 2$ a tub

[tonkatoyman]

Awesome, and where does one acquire those? I love that idea, and I may use it for the future!

You can buy them either on line or at a local restaurant supply. They are called storage or bus tubs.