Thanks everyone for the input. I'm starting small, my goal right now is to have a 1.3 colony to start hence why i bough the 4 tub rack for now. You can buy dividers from RBI for their rack/tubs so I'm thinking i will divide up the tubs for now to raise my starters in there till they grow big enough than I will remove the divide. The baby rack can come later when I'm able to finally breed.

Recalculating every I definitely underestimate the enclosure side of things. the rack itself comes with heating and tubs already but since i live in Canada I will most likely be hit with tax and duty when i bring the rack across the border. I skimp on thermostat and just got a cheap $30 one from amazon for now, with my budget I don't think I will have more than one snake for a couple on months I figure a good thermostat can wait till i have at least 2-3 animals in the collection.

So I'm estimating around 400-450$ on the caging and equipment that leaves me with 350-400$ for the snake. I'm thinking of looking for a bumblebee female to start, seems to be the cheapest multigen right now.

I would Raise that girl up for a few months at which time I should be able to throw down another 500$ or so for another multigen girl and than go from there

How does my plan sound? Am I missing something glaringly obvious before I order the equipments and get my hands dirty