Thank you very much for all the feed back, I really appreciate it. Did some more searching and finally found somewhere in Texas that sells PVC sheets at a price that would make it worth it but they are in south central Texas so after gas it just makes it a break even situation so looks like the girlfriend and I are going to pull the trigger tonight or tomorrow on a T8 with the sliding glass doors.

I don't think we plan on it for this one but if / when(more likely when) we buy a second one we were thinking of ordering it to be able to be split into 3 or 4 sections for young balls or other small snakes. What are your thoughts on that ?

I figured going different florescent lights , Found some very reasonable priced 6 and 8 inch ones that I have used before and asking them to cut out areas for 4inch Flexwatt instead of the 11 inch.

Just a thought, figured I would get your input on the capabilities of the T-8 since you have plenty of experience with them.