Webstaurant tubs

[snakesRkewl]

It all comes down to whether or not your rats will chew the tubs. I kill every chewer. It is genetic. I don't care what anyone says. If they have plenty of food and water and they're not overcrowded and they start chewing they are dead for me.

I agree I do the same, I have no chewer's and no biters, they kept my snakes warm for a moment or two.

[JayCee]

I had some problems with chewouts early on and I started experimenting.

Instead of a standard "rack", I essentially have a 1/2 wire cage (4 sides and hinged lid made from 1/2" hardware cloth) that sit in the tub. Eliminated chew outs completely as they won't chew out of the bottom.

The only negative so far is that occasionally a 1-2 day old pinky will get themselves stuck. I've only lost a few because of this. Once they get a few days old they are usually too big to get themselves stuck.

It probably takes me a couple extra minutes overall on cleaning day but not that big of a deal IMO.

[Freakie_frog]

It all comes down to whether or not your rats will chew the tubs. I kill every chewer. It is genetic. I don't care what anyone says. If they have plenty of food and water and they're not overcrowded and they start chewing they are dead for me.

We sell the as boa food or as pet's..some times we do have to put them down. Since rats are social animals and learn from each other if you have one chewer it will teach the others and before long the whole tub is teaching every other tub and you have a problem..

[suzuki4life]

The way around that is a sideways rack where the hole is on the end covered by wood so it isn't reachable by teeth.

pic please!!!!!!


I don't understand how you could use wood to cover the hole.

[suzuki4life]

Touche....Someones done there homework I see. All I'm trying to say is I've been using these tubs and they work great. You simply stated they were garbage so I simply stated they were made of the same material as the ones you mentioned. I've never used the ones from home depot because they are a little too big for my closet in my apartment but but I've heard good things about them.

Suzuki sorry bro

I was trained in France to work on blow molds years ago. I know a bunch of useless to general society information like that

[suzuki4life]

It all comes down to whether or not your rats will chew the tubs. I kill every chewer. It is genetic. I don't care what anyone says. If they have plenty of food and water and they're not overcrowded and they start chewing they are dead for me.

so you killed all the rats you got from me then? I have a highly specialized chewing school they must all have passed.

They don't chew fiberglass I have learned(so far so good anyway)

[snakesRkewl]

pic please!!!!!!

I don't understand how you could use wood to cover the hole.

Here you go

[suzuki4life]

ummm okay, I don't see how that stops them but if it works for you, cool

I setup my a prototype rack with metal strap in the hole/slot and it blanks out most of the slot with metal.

[snakesRkewl]

It isn't exposed as much, but it is probably still chewable if they are persistent.

[JD'S Exotics]

Well I got my tubs in and built my rack. I will have to get some pictures later. I built the rack to hold 20 bins but only bought 12 because thats how many I needed t oget the dicounted price and wasn't really sure if they would be what I wanted. I opened the box and was amazed to see that they must have changed the mold as the ridges in the bottom are just small halfmoons that I don't think anything (including my little chewing maniac ASF's) can get their teeth on. They did take some small modifications on the sides as there is reinforcement tabs all along the side that need trimming. But all in all for the price not bad I guess. I think they are a little on the small side though and probably will only house 1.2 maybe 1.3 but I figure it will work good for the mothering tubs. Thansk for everyone's input.

Josh