Carol's
Rack
Carol
and Ryan Wunsch
My
mother bought a large breeding group of cornsnakes a few years ago.
She decided she would like to keep them in a rack for the ease of maintenance
that a rack system gives you.
She
had nearly 20 cornsnakes, so we decided to plan the rack for 20 adult
snakes.
The
following pictorial represents the easiest and cheapest rack to build.
Materials:
Dry wall screws - $2.00
3 sheets of 3/4'' melamine - $40
Tubs - bought second hand from Mark IsBell - cheap
Total
cost - just over $120, and the rack could hold 20 snakes at an average
cost of $6 per snake cage. If we had added heat tape, the total cost
per cage would have still been under $10. Mom had a baseboard heater
in that room, and preferred just to up the room heat (which is successful
for many colubrid breeders)
We
took a full 4x8 sheet of melamine and had it cut in half to make
the sides. The other 2 sheets of melamine were cut into 2'x4' sections.
Once
I had the 2 side peices secured to the top peice, I flipped it upside
down to add the extra racks.
We
placed 2 tubs between each sheet, and a C.D between the tubs and melomine
to add a small gap for ease of tub sliding.
I kept
doing that until I had taken all of the space up to hold 10 rubbermaids
in total. The empty portion at the bottom helps keep the snakes off
of the cool floor. The top of the rack as well as the unused portion
in the bottom acts as very good storage space for extra stuff.
Here
is the finished product!
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