No I'm not asking what other kinds of animals can live in a rack. I'm asking about the racks ability to keep other animals out. I use my living room for QT and the main collection is upstairs in the "Animal Room" where we keep our rodents, sugar gliders, and snakes. That room is off limits to the cats but the living room is not. Currently in QT we have two ball pythons and a corn snake all in tanks. Soon I will be getting two racks and the ball pythons will go into the racks but the little cornsnake will have to stay in a tank.

The thing is, my cats have already showed they can open the kind of screen lid I have on two of the 3 tanks in QT. I used to own anoles and when I left the house one day I forgot to shut the door to my room and my cats went in and tore open the screen and injured both anoles. I have two tanks like that now but the cats have been seperated from the living room since we moved into the new apartment. Now its time for them to start being allowed downstairs and we'll be getting racks. If I move the ball pythons into racks, how easily can a cat get into a rack? Is there anything I can do to the rack to make it cat-proof? What should I do about the corn? Its lid is made of the same screen as the one the cats could tear open.