New Member Looking For Suggestions and Info

[bns]

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For plastic tubs- where do you get food grade tubs? I hadn't thought about needing specific kinds of plastic, to be honest. Is there a special place to look or order them? If you have just the plastic tub as their enclosure(without a surrounding PVC that is), are they as difficult or less difficult than an aquarium to keep stable?

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Buy tubs rated for food storage. I've purchased them at the grocery store...

When I tried a couple "plastic" enclosures they too were made of HDPE "food safe" material. Various reasons why I didn't care for them, but for me, snakes health is #1.

I'm not going to get into a debate here on this, BUT...just remember that none of those other uses you mention involve heating of those containers, much less CONSTANT heating of them in use. Just saying...it matters. Even frozen foods intended to be cooked in microwave say right ON them not to re-heat in those containers...why? Because heat breaks down plastics.

What snakes do you keep that you are heating the enclosures beyond about 95f?

Some plastics are not made to be heated to high temps. Some. Not all.
I use a vacuum sealer. Those bags are rated for microwave use and you can place them in boiling water to heat the contents.

(Cold is just fine, but last I checked, our snakes need heat.) Also, we humans are MUCH bigger than our snakes...and our bodies are more complex too, likely way more resilient when it comes to chemical contaminants, don't you think?

No, I think your assumption is incorrect.

You have a strong prejudice against plastics and want to lump them altogether ...they are not all the same.