We have a small boaphile rack for quarantine snakes. They are kept on paper towels so we can easily spot abnormalities -- mites, mucus, diarrhea, etc. We keep our quarantine rack a tad warmer than normal to help new snakes deal with the stress of shipping. We work with the snakes in quarantine at the end of the day, after we have taken care of all the other snakes, and we wear latex gloves when working with them. The only advantage of using a rack vs. a single cage for quarantine is that you can quarantine multiple snakes at once.