Anyone ever made dividers for tubs?

[hungba]

I don't live in the USA so there are no sterilite brand tubs here available. There are other brands but they are not measured in qts etc, so I find out what the floor space is recommended and I convert.

Currently, for small ball pythons I am using what would be similar to your 15Qt tub size. They move into bigger ones at about 800 grams. But I don't have smaller ones like 6 qt that people use for hatchlings. Thus far I have not had a problem with small snakes in the "15qt" ones, but I am going to get a bunch of hatchlings which will probably outgrow a "6qt" type tub within months. I was thinking instead of building a rack with small tubs, use it for a few months, then just having it there unused, I can just build a divider longitudinally on my "15qts". This is also because the smaller tubs I can get here are either around qt size but not ideal because they are more squarish than long. The smallest long ones I can get are a little bigger, about halfway between a 6 and a 15.

It would be simple enough to get some acrylic sheet and build a ridge I can slide them in there, they can even be opaque so they don't see their neighbour. But the problem is that the inside bottom "corners" edge is rounded and not a right angle.

Any ideas? Any reason this is not a good idea?

[Royal Hijinx]

I have seen pre-made tub dividers somewhere, so I know it is being done. If you round the corners on the bottom you should be able to get decent fit.

[francisco_24]

reptile basics has some for their sweater box rack.

ive been wanting to try to make some for my 28qt tubs but havent had the time

[satomi325]

I've made a few dividers out of a 1/8 inch thick styrofoam poster board. It was a little ghetto looking, but it worked.

I cut multiple identical pieces of board into a size that will fit into the tubs. Then I sandwiched 2 or 3 pieces together with glue to make the 'wall' of the divider. Then I attached another small piece on the bottom of the 'wall' piece to help stability. So its essentially an upside down 'T' shape.

Cost was cheap. I spent 2$ on the board and I already had glue and a utility knife at home.

Edit: oh yeah. I also had to wedge a small piece of folded paper towel onto one of the ends to prevent the snakes from pushing the divider. I'm sure this can be avoided if you make an adjacent wall to the main 'wall'. So its a 'T' shape when you're looking down on it. The adjacent wall should be the width of the tub to ensure a tight fit.


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