Beginner prep setup ideas... sound good?

[eminart]

Originally Posted by Andy_G

-Tubs hold heat and humidity better than tanks, 100% without a doubt.

Everyone says this, but it's just not true. Glass is impermeable. Nothing can hold humidity better than that. Now, if you put a full screen top on then yes, humidity will escape. The same thing will happen in a tub if you cut out the whole top. But, it's easy to cover a screen top, or to use another type of lid altogether. As far as heat, they'll be very comparable on that as well, if they both have the same amount of ventilation, and are sitting on the same type of stand/rack.

What happens is people drill a few holes in a tub which amount to maybe 3 square inches of ventilation total, and then compare that with a glass tank with a wide open screen top which may have 36 square inches of ventilation.

Some people might point out that the holes in a tub aren't at the top. But, unless your snake is hanging out in the 2 inches of space above the holes in the tub, then that's irrelevant.

All that said, tubs are easy, cheap, and work great. But, glass tanks work fine, especially if you get one with doors on the front.

[Andy_G]

Originally Posted by eminart

Everyone says this, but it's just not true. Glass is impermeable. Nothing can hold humidity better than that. Now, if you put a full screen top on then yes, humidity will escape. The same thing will happen in a tub if you cut out the whole top. But, it's easy to cover a screen top, or to use another type of lid altogether. As far as heat, they'll be very comparable on that as well, if they both have the same amount of ventilation, and are sitting on the same type of stand/rack.

What happens is people drill a few holes in a tub which amount to maybe 3 square inches of ventilation total, and then compare that with a glass tank with a wide open screen top which may have 36 square inches of ventilation.

Some people might point out that the holes in a tub aren't at the top. But, unless your snake is hanging out in the 2 inches of space above the holes in the tub, then that's irrelevant.

All that said, tubs are easy, cheap, and work great. But, glass tanks work fine, especially if you get one with doors on the front.

Ok...i'll modify my statement...standard tanks do not hold humidity or heat well. Specialty tanks or ones with restricted ventilation do. Perhaps that's more accurate. Whether it's cost effective or time effective to pay for or do these specialties/modifications is very debatable when comparing to tubs. Saying that...I have never heard of someone calling a front opening glass enclosure a "tank" before, rather an enclosure or cage...perhaps that's different down south and the term "tank" is much more widely used there. I also mentioned that a lot of people use the versa style tops with tanks successfully, but I suppose you missed that, Em. Gonna stick to my original statement in comparing the two.