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Vision Racks

VinnyJ

Red Chin Eastern Indigo
In the past I've made my own racks for my adult corns and that has worked out pretty good for me. The racks I've built are made out of Melamine which is very dense and heavy. I'm thinking about moving my reptiles to a different room in my house which happens to be upstairs. There is no way I'm moving my incredibly heavy rack up a zig zagging stair case so I'm looking at some alternatives. One of the alternatives I've found is the Vision Products rack. I'd like to know if anyone has purchased one of these yet and if so what they think of it. Below is a picture of the rack I'm looking at. I would have to purchase 3 of them to replace the rack I currently have. Let me know what you think about this rack.

Thanks,
VJ
 

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hey Ive been looking into buying one of those my self here soon..i would like to know about them to, hopfully someone else can help :cheers:
 
Thanks blckkat. I've seen nsreptile racks and I may just end up going that route if I don't find anything else. I've heard some good things about them similar to what you stated.

On the Vision Products rack I like the fact that you can adjust how much heat a tub gets by adjusting the amount of heat cable under the tub. Having the rack on wheels is a plus too. Maybe I'll have to be the guinea pig and let everyone know how it works or doesn't work. :shrugs:
 
VinnyJ said:
Maybe I'll have to be the guinea pig and let everyone know how it works or doesn't work. :shrugs:

Did you end up going with these, Vinny? I am just wondering because I think I may get a couple of these, and I think I'm going to ask a friend of mine to set up a distributorship- the vision people asked him about that process but he didn't know if there would be enough interest to make it worth his while.

If he buys a couple extras I may have some to sell and be able to offer a discount on shipping or possibly even meet for delivery, etc etc etc.

Might also be able to deliver those ICR's if you haven't found another soloution already ;]

Let me know what, if anything, you've done for racks, eh? Cheers.
 
Hi Vinny,
Don't waste your hard earned cash on the vision racks. I have a couple friends that purchased them. They snag when sliding the boxes back in, and are prone to tipping. I will suggest the Reptile Basics models.I have several
and haven't any complaints!!
They also use the Iris brand boxes. They are lidless with a very snug fit.
The customer service is excellent! :cheers:
They are light weight & stackable.
Tom

here's a link
http://market.kingsnake.com/detail.php?cat=22&de=370646
 
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No I didn't end up getting them. I've been slowly researching other solutions which include purchasing a rack system or building something similar to what I have but modular so it can be move if necessary piece by piece.

Thanks for the heads up Tom. I need to be careful with my hard earned cash since the tree in my backyard that was growing it died many years ago. :rolleyes: Lol.
 
VinnyJ said:
Thanks for the heads up Tom. I need to be careful with my hard earned cash since the tree in my backyard that was growing it died many years ago. :rolleyes: Lol.

My tree died too. I can not seem to find another anywhere.:roflmao:
 
tsthompson said:
Hi Vinny,
Don't waste your hard earned cash on the vision racks. I have a couple friends that purchased them. They snag when sliding the boxes back in, and are prone to tipping. I will suggest the Reptile Basics models.I have several
and haven't any complaints!!
They also use the Iris brand boxes. They are lidless with a very snug fit.
The customer service is excellent! :cheers:
They are light weight & stackable.
Tom

here's a link
http://market.kingsnake.com/detail.php?cat=22&de=370646

Here's a problem:

"Iris Shoebox Rack

$159.99 SHIPPED-Sold Out

Includes Heat and Tubs/Lids
- - -

Iris Sweaterbox Rack

$199.99-4 LEFT"


Not gonna solve the problems I am having with 14 or so yearlings and potentially high numbers of adults incoming this season.

So . . . is there another route? Anyone have a must-see suggstion?

And a further question about the problematic visions- were they the first-generation shelves and tube assembies? Because the designs for both the support columns and the shelving itself has changed.

Also [and this is just for my application] they will not be moving on casters too often- basically once a month for cleaning purposes . . .


Anyone?
 
schilsound said:
Here's a problem:

"Iris Shoebox Rack

$159.99 SHIPPED-Sold Out

Includes Heat and Tubs/Lids
- - -

Iris Sweaterbox Rack

$199.99-4 LEFT"


Not gonna solve the problems I am having with 14 or so yearlings and potentially high numbers of adults incoming this season.

So . . . is there another route? Anyone have a must-see suggstion?

And a further question about the problematic visions- were they the first-generation shelves and tube assembies? Because the designs for both the support columns and the shelving itself has changed.

Also [and this is just for my application] they will not be moving on casters too often- basically once a month for cleaning purposes . . .


Anyone?

I just ordered two more Animal Plastics 1754(10) racks this morning. Each rack fits ten 32qt. adult tubs, or twenty 15qt. juvie tubs. I like the flexibility, and almost everything else about these racks. The downside is that 2 racks plus a new thermostat set me back $1,065 (including shipping). If you include the mouse order I placed this morning, I spent over $1,300 today, and I don't even have any new snakes coming in to be excited about. :awcrap:
 
Two other MAJOR considerations are as follows:

1- The pricing I can get these rack for @ distributorship costs. It's nowhere near what it's gonna set me back for AP's- and the ap racks were at the top of my list before I considered/discovered the visions.

2- I don't own a home and am currently houseshopping. moving is a concern [even if I DO get a place of my own I would like to be able to move a rack without unstacking it completely if need be- loose snake/feeder, etc] so while tippability is a concern right now the flexibility to physically relocate them [without a snake load] is a definite plus.

thank heavens I started a couple rodent colonies so I can stop paying for the little buggers ;]

---edit---

i see there's a new site now for the racks from RBI- they look good, but they're gonna cost me 4x what I would pay for a vision system, possibly more once I tally the shipping.

Anyone with an option for me?
 
Schilsound Good Luck with your Visions. :cheers: Sounds like you've already made up your mind,so get them.By the way did you even bother to look in the store site? :shrugs: They have plenty of the new style!!!Besides my reply was to Vinny. I believe he started the thread. Meanwhile I'll be sitting here drinking a brew looking at my RB.s :cheers:
 
-< fires up the flamethrower >- :flames:

tsthompson said:
Schilsound Good Luck with your Visions. :cheers: Sounds like you've already made up your mind,so get them.

:flames:

Actually I said [at the end of my post] "Anyone with an option for me?"

I am still looking for answers. Despite your opinions [and those of your friends] I am still not sold on anything more than the Visions in regards to Price Vs. Space.

So once again ('cause you missed it the first time) Anyone have any options for me [and I'll add this part so it's clear as day] BESIDES the Reptile Basics/RBI racks -or- the Visions?



NOW ~sigh~ gotta get out my BIG flamethrower for the second part of this snappy-jazzy-punch-ya-in-tha-pouty-part reply . . .

:flames: :flames: :flames:


tsthompson said:
By the way did you even bother to look in the store site? :shrugs: They have plenty of the new style!!!

Yes; I made my way to the store site; one link level under that which you posted.

The link that you posted was to Kingsnakes.com classifieds, which lists a very VERY limited supply. ~shrug~ not my fault you didn't post the link directly to the store.

In my reply you'll see the text I posted; no stock on the shoeboxes, and 4 sweaterboxes left as defined by the data in your post.

Then if you look above in my edit you'll see I posted the info from the store. So thanks for the implied suggestion that I can't navigate the web in order to check stock on some plastics . . . as another part of that edit I adress the cost. Let's go look, shall we?

I see now [having followed that link. again.] that a set of those racks to house the number of snakes I have to plan for will cost me something more like $1ooo to $15oo dollars, which I would much rather spend directly in the purchasing of and caring for animals. The visions [through a distributor] are gonna cost me a fraction of that. So if I odn;t find a really great alternative to those plastic racks I am gonna HAFTA go with the visions, you understand now financial status demands some sort of compromise? Cost Vs features, right?

So . . .back to the point I was making earlier before i was so rudely flamed-

I don't think there's going to be much to compete, but I am still looking. Anyone have options?

tsthompson said:
Besides my reply was to Vinny. I believe he started the thread. Meanwhile I'll be sitting here drinking a brew looking at my RB.s :cheers:

And now let me address another thing; the undertone of superiority contained in your responses, the slightly snarly tone of the response, and your insistence that I somehow am wrong in replying to your response to Vinny;

1./ Please don't assume that I have done or said or thought anything. I am leaning hard towards the visions; yes. But I am still looking for options. That's why I restarted posting in this thread. That's why I asked Vinny a question.

You betcha he started the thread. And if you look there was a pause of 5 weeks with no further information, so I asked him a question; direct and pointed. I did this because I have spoken to Vinny on PM before and was trying to see if he needed racks and still wanted some of the mice I have to offer maybe we could have a win-win-win situation based upon our geographical proximity... That's also allowed in the forums, no?

2./ Your response to vinny was after you saw me post a question to him, so maybe you wanna get up offa the tension here a little bit and realize you are the thread hijacker, not me. :twoguns:

-OR-

[no bullet points, just for a tension-easer]

You could stop, breathe and think a second:



This is a forum. It's a place to come for insight, answers, and communication through discussion.

Please don't assume- it's a bad idea, and this is even more true in text/online conversations than it is IRL.

If we cannot have an open, directed thread of conversation regarding personal experience, individual cases, and open honesty then WTH is this forum for?

What does not work for you and your friends may be the exact fitting piece of my personal puzzle. I took in your information; I acknowledged it, and I asked a question. Sorry if that rubbed you the wrong way. I am still exploring my options, and I was speaking to Vinny- Thank you for your input.

Now;

Does this mean I have made up my mind? No. I have just decided to further pursue a line of information. Does that warrant some snide remark about me not following up on some further information even when you post some misguiding information?

Relax. Try meds, meditation, or just plain ignoring the remarks that bother you so much.

Just don't expect me to roll over and grin while I take it in.. . . I stand by my right to ask any and all questions on this forum I deem reasonable; that's why I'm here.

Hell I found it so informative that I decided to PAY for it so that I could continue to take it in all the while supporting the system that gave me all this info, same as you.

And if you wanna snarl at me ~online~ for pursuing some line of information I find valuable go right ahead. Don't be surprised if I take a picture of it and post it on Ebaum, though. I like snarly poster pictures.

-< flame off>-

There. My first flame response on this board. Sorry if you take all of this the wrong way, TS- I was asking someone who appears to be at about my level of involvement and experience what soloution he found. just a discussion, that's all.

Now if you have an answer to my issue that doesn't imply anything negative, or assume much, or is just plain old friendlier in tone than your last one while still being informative lemme know.

Otherwise I'll have my camera ready. :flames:
 
Roy Munson said:
I just ordered two more Animal Plastics 1754(10) racks this morning. Each rack fits ten 32qt. adult tubs, or twenty 15qt. juvie tubs. I like the flexibility, and almost everything else about these racks. The downside is that 2 racks plus a new thermostat set me back $1,065 (including shipping). If you include the mouse order I placed this morning, I spent over $1,300 today, and I don't even have any new snakes coming in to be excited about. :awcrap:

Well Roy, it looks like your tree died too.... :roflmao: Although Vinny and I live together I can't get that darn tree to come alive again....
 
curiousL said:
Well Roy, it looks like your tree died too.... :roflmao: Although Vinny and I live together I can't get that darn tree to come alive again....
:grin01:
Yeah, it's a goner. I'm chipping it to use as substrate in my tubs. ;)
 
Here's a sample of your vision price (retail)


The 10 high rack comes complete with
tubs, 2 - 28' heating cables for $799.00

The 10 high rack is available without
heating for $699.00

The 10 high unit is available without
tubs and no heat for $599.00

Wheels (included with each rack)
$6.99ea for non locking
$9.99ea for locking

If you have any questions please give us a
call or drop us an E-Mail.
:shrugs:
You could build your own for alot less. Iris cb70's are $10 in quantity,
Devilznight had posted a photo awhile back of a rack that was built for
her using cb 70's. You can add the casters yourself.
I mounted my RB's on a plywood base with casters so they can be easilly moved. :cheers:
 
Roy Munson said:
:grin01:
Yeah, it's a goner. I'm chipping it to use as substrate in my tubs. ;)
:roflmao:... that was good Roy.

My tree only produced about $1000.00. I paid $500 for it and it cost me another $200 in water and tree suplements. After it died I had to have it removed which cost me about $1200.00. I guess you can't have a money tree for the money. Lol.
 
schilsound - to be come a distributor for Vision don't you have to purchase a very large quantity of thier products? I thought I heard that a long time ago. I thought it was something like 3k, 5k, or something like that. I guess that's not a large quantity just a large total but you know what I mean.
 
tsthompson said:
I mounted my RB's on a plywood base with casters so they can be easilly moved.
I've thought about that too. That would be a good way to have a light rack and be able to easily move it around for cleaning.
 
Locking Wheels

Vinny it does work pretty well. Just make sure you use locking wheels.
The new racks are made with a thicker hdpe, so they are slightly heavier.
The price includes shipping! :dancer: What I like the most is the fact that Iris containers are much easier to clean. :dancer:
Have you had any breeding action with your striped ghosts?
There has been a good bit of tail slapping here lately! :crazy02:
Have good one,
Tom :cheers:
 
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