Why? What's the point?

[LGL]

Hey! I've been seeing a lot of homemade racks lately where the tubs still have their lids on. What's the point of that? I understand it helping prevent escape with smaller snakes (like corns), but with Ball Pythons, when you have a snake that has a good girth to them and a rack where the tubs fit snuggly onto the shelves, I don't see the point. If a rack is supposed to make it easier to feed and clean, and make it so that you can fit more cages into a space, then why would you build the rack so you have to leave the lid on?

You'd have to completely pull out and open every single tub to feed the snake inside, if your are spot cleaning, you have to pull the whole thing and open up the whole cage (which with all of that movement and constantly opening the cage, I'd assume that after a while the snakes would start to get stressed out), and that extra inch takes up a lot of room with larger racks. That means that if you built it where the tubs don't need lids, you could have another whole shelf for every 5-7 shelves that you have with lids on... I know the whole point is not to fit the most cages possible into a room or anything, but I don't see how that would help you with maitenence and stuff...

Can anyone tell me the advantages of making a Ball Python rack where the lids to the tubs are on? Or why they decided to build it that way? Thanks! Sorry if it's a stupid question, but I just don't get why someone would do it.

[adizziedoll]

Okay -

So i built it for the lids to be on... why????

Well, at the time, it was all about escapees - I didnt want to come home to find that a thousand dollar snake is missing.

NOW, im ticked that I did it - for exactly the reasons you stated. Pointless, just pointless.

I promise you this - the next set of racks that are coming up this season are going to be a topless design.....

[Nate]

woohooo topless!

[Sputnik]

Lids on helps maintain humidity.... at least where I live it is VERY dry. I wouldn't have them any other way. Each to their own.

[LGL]

Lids on helps maintain humidity.... at least where I live it is VERY dry. I wouldn't have them any other way. Each to their own.

Good point! I live in CO too and I do have a slight problem with keeping the humidity up in my adults' tubs.

[Sausage]

woohooo topless!

LOL

[Vomitore]

Wouldn't it be more more harm on a snake to rub against wood then plastic?

[LGL]

Wouldn't it be more more harm on a snake to rub against wood then plastic?

Well, if it's melamine then it wouldn't make a difference.

[TekWarren]

Wouldn't it be more more harm on a snake to rub against wood then plastic?

What harm could come of that? I'm willing to bet they come across more more wood objects in the wild than plastic. Not trying to call you out just interested in what your thinking is.

[AkivaSmith]

I have a suggestion. You can take a sheet of pvc or other material cut it to size and mount it to the rack where the lid of the tub should be. Voila, now you don't need your lids any more.