Best material to build a rack from

[Nagini88]

Right now I have 2 Animal plastics racks with expanded PVC or abs, some kind of plastic and I love it. Thanks lucas! i'm going to weigh the costs and see if its cheaper to make it custom or buy more AP racks XD

[zombie&lemons]

imagine if my rack was made of plastic it would just fall over

[Nagini88]

lol yeah yours is nice, I just have to many to have show cages, I need a racking system

[Lucas339]

imagine if my rack was made of plastic it would just fall over

with proper plans, a plastic anything will work. my abs cages are made out of 1/8 inch material and they are just butt glued together and are strong and light!! probably about 1/2 the weight as a wood cage, easy to clean, no sealing, and it will last way longer than any sealed wood cage.

[zombie&lemons]

with proper plans, a plastic anything will work. my abs cages are made out of 1/8 inch material and they are just butt glued together and are strong and light!! probably about 1/2 the weight as a wood cage, easy to clean, no sealing, and it will last way longer than any sealed wood cage.

I know i was just making a joke i have big future plans for a new cage in the future with a bunch of RBI setups cause I'M ADDICTED to buying or wanting new BP's i would like to have some morphs to breed but dont have the money right now. by time im on my own again ill be breeding my 2 pastels and hoping for a SUPER! by then ill have a new display cage setup for my 1 boa and 4 bp's (6x2x2 with a cabinet underneath then another cabinet/hood for the 2nd 2 cages which well be 3x2x1 side by side and then that one more time so a total of 3 levels, 5 cages and have more bps in rbi's.

sorry for the grammar and spelling. i know i s#ck

[Nagini88]

Lucas, do you have any pics of your cages?

[zombie&lemons]

night shot looking up


the first one i built



the one i built for Blondie

[Lucas339]

these are made out of ABS which comes in any color




this one is made out of PVC which comes in white, black, and gray (i think)



no exposed screws, no painting, and best of all, they will last practically for ever!

[Nagini88]

those are nice, what do you use to connect it? how did you do the door.

[Lucas339]

the stack is 3 sperate cages. they are glued together with PVC cement. I holds great but takes a while to set up. Weldon makes a ABS glue that sets up faster. the bottom of each cage has a thin strip of material all the way around the cage and the tops of the cages have little squares attached to the top so they don't slide around. the door is 1/4" acrylic i had cut and the egdes are flamed treated so they are clear. the front of the tank is actually 3 layers thick. the first two are for support and the third layer is a bit larger, like 1/8" all the way around, to stop the door. i got those hinges from a friend. they are pricey but you can't see the screws and they are strong. they have little turn tabs like repti-racks uses for his cages. the doors have pull tabs to open them. i used spikes that you get at like hot topic.

the PVC cage was made by my friend who helped me with the ABS cages. that thing is crazy. the top, bottom, front and back are one piece and the sides are seperate. he has jigs for every part of that cage so every one he does is perfect.

hope this helped. feel free to ask if it didn't.