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Hatchling housing...

This is the third time in 30 days I've seen this topic posted...

This is what I use:
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The tubs to that Reptile Basics rack you linked are a lot bigger then mine.
 
That reptile basics rack is real nice... spendy though! I make my own with shoeboxes and they ain't pretty but they are functional. If you have the money for one of those I think the tubs would be fine for baby corns, but if there is a way to remove dividers and put in the next bigger size tubs as the snake grows, it will serve you longer. A lot of people just use sandwich delis as pictured above or even smaller but if you don't sell the babies fast they do outgrow them...
 
I built my own rack - here's a pic of it partially completed and in use:

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That's an old pic - I've added one more shelf for 12 qt tubs and will be adding the rest (3 more shelves for 4 qt and another shelf for 12qt) soon - but it in it's current unfinished configuration, it can house all I'm going to hatch this year.

The baking puns under it are so that it is easy to spread vaseline in them during ant season, so the ants can not climb the rack. As a bonus, the pans make the rack easier to slide.

My next hatchling rack will be for smaller tubs, like what TripleMoonsExotic is using. The nice thing about the bigger 4q
 
Damn - hit a key and the browser posted before I was ready.

The nice thing about the bigger 4qt tubs is that you can house the neonates for almost a year before they outgrow it - and when they outgrow it, it is for need of a bigger water dish. That's what the rows of 12qt tubs are for - when my holdbacks need bigger tubs but 32qt is overkill, I put them in the 32qt tubs.

Advantage to building my own - I like the particular style of 4qt tub I'm using much better than the 4qt tubs that commercial racks are designed to use. My tubs are a tad taller which is why the commercial racks don't use them, but they are much much less prone to cracking.
 
If you have the hatchlings to sell, a 6qt rack is way overkill. One 6qt 10 bin rack takes up a lot of room as opposed to mine where I can fit 54 bins in the same amount of space. There's nothing wrong with the sandwich style containers and they will last 3-6 months. If you can't sell the hatchlings in 3-6 months, I'd seriously consider dropping the prices.
 
Here's what I use to house mine. I've tried lots of different things, but stumbled across these last year at wal-mart and they're my favorite way so far. They're pencil boxes and cost ~57¢. I got a bunch last year after school had started and they were on clearance for 10¢. They're plenty secure, dirt cheap, easy to clean, are stackable, and so on.

They only come in these neon colors, but I don't see any reason why that would be bad for the snake, they don't seem to mind.
 

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cool this is really helpful, I have 17 eggs in the incubator at the moment and was wondering what sort of tubs to put them in, what do you do about heating for them all. I am in spain so generally at the moment it is roasting hot in the house anyway but would like to know the best way to keep them warm if needed.
 
Thanks for all the great responses!! I really like the pencil box idea, I am going to keep an eye out after school starts for a good sale.
 
blueapplepaste said:
Here's what I use to house mine. I've tried lots of different things, but stumbled across these last year at wal-mart and they're my favorite way so far. They're pencil boxes and cost ~57¢. I got a bunch last year after school had started and they were on clearance for 10¢. They're plenty secure, dirt cheap, easy to clean, are stackable, and so on.

They only come in these neon colors, but I don't see any reason why that would be bad for the snake, they don't seem to mind.
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I love this idea and am DEFINATLY looking out for a good sale on pencil boxes! :)
 
I use these. The small ones for hatchlings and the bigger ones for yearlings. Don't use little heat mats though, they can melt them. (Ugh.) I've used heat rope and that works okay. Don't use the dividers for the big one because they don't work for snakes. They just crawl right over the top to the other side. Speaking of color coding...I use gold tops for the girls and green for the boys.

BTW, I love the pencil box idea! Pink and blue for differentiating sex would be great!
 

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