I just got my boaphile and its worth the wait. Calling Jeff is key. He made an awesome point with his product, not 100% sure but others did confirm it aswell. You can read it yourself to better understand. Im not good at explaining things...
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The racks are specifically made to carry our cages. I do not know if APs cages will fit on our racks or not. If those cages leak, they will leak onto our racks and I don't recommend that.



Our cages don't leak because they are fully assembled and welded/glued. Leakage is yucky. I just moved all the cages from nine stacks of Boaphiles to put racks under them. Most of those stacks have been housing Boas continuously for more than seven years. Not one stain or even hint of any leak whatsoever between those cages. Not one. That's one of the big advantages of cages are are not screwed together. About half of these cages are made with just 1/8" thick material too. They function exactly as they did the day I stacked them up. No pinching of doors at all. They don't look brand new any more. Especially the doors that are scratched up now but they work very well and have hosted many many Boas and seen thousands new lives begin in them. Great fun!



The pedestal racks are sturdy enough to hold our cages and whatever you want to put into them. The cages are not engineered to hold up the racks though, so that won't work. Generally heavier more solid products should go on the bottom. That is how we designed it and built everything.



Thanks for all the great feedback and wonderful thoughtful questions! You kids are out there thinking about it that is for sure!
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The problem is nothing sticks to PVC except glue. PVC glue that is. Using it is tricky and we have mastered it here. That is what we use to glue/weld/seal all the cages we build. The other guys that make cages from PVC could do the same thing but for reasons that are unknown to me, they do not. Silicone or any other typical sealant will not stick to PVC or other plastics. After curing it will just pull right off. That's why the "other" cages leak. All cages that are screwed together leak if they can't be properly sealed and no plastic can be sealed except by gluing. HDPE and Polypropylene can't even be glued. They are chemically resistant to everything except heat welding. Heat welding will work but must be a complete total seal to avoid leakage. I don't think anyone does that. That's too time consuming and expensive. So for cages that don't leak, you need either a Boaphile or a mold type cage like Vision Cages. Of course there are still aquariums but yuck!



Ten years ago I moved from one house to our new facility. I had about 500 Boas at that time and had more than 100 large 4' cages. 60- 4' x 2.5' x 18" tall cages with shelves and 54- 4' x 2' x 12" tall cages. These were all melamine. These were 3/4" melamine. I "hired" one good friend and two buds I worked with. I paid them well but, after a very long day of moving these tremendously heavy cages full of Boas, they were all just about dead. Both from the heavy work and the stink! I do mean stink! The urine had leaked from one cage down to the cage below and sort of settled on the top of that cage actually kind of gluing some of the cages together. They were sticking to each other not really like glue but yuck! The fluids just sat there festering. I did not smell this until the day we moved. It was unbelievable! A horrible stink!!! I can't overstate how bad that was. That is what happens to cages that CAN'T be sealed perfectly.



The two distinct horrors we encountered were the stink and the back breaking labor that moving was. Now last weekend, my delicate daughter and I moved stacks and stacks of 421D cages outdoors, moved in the new pedestal/racks, and restacked the cages. There was absolutely no stink. None. No leaks, not one. Half of these cages are 7 1/2 years old and built using 1/8" plastic vs. the 1/4" thick material we use today. The new cages weight 25 lbs. The first ones only weighed about 20 lbs. We used 1/2" material for the ends and face at that time. A slightly different style. More complicated and less sleek but still performing like the day I set them up more than seven years ago. Since the cages only weigh 25 lbs. each the work was so easy. The melamine cages we moved weighed more like 80 lbs. and up to over 100 lbs. for the cages with shelves, plus the snakes!



Thankfully! Those days are gone!!!