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Old 01-04-2007, 09:17 PM
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im thinking about replacing all my vivs soon so that they will all stack nicely together and be the same colour, ive sort of decided that i want to go with plastic vivs but dont know which ones to use, ive been looking at boaphile, herptek, vision and rhino vivs all are very expensive but do seem to be of very good quality and design. does anyone use any of these? and can anyone recommend anything else?
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Old 01-04-2007, 11:08 PM
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i have a couple of pennines and they are really good and their cheap. as for the others i dont know but plastic is definatly the way forward
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yeah i have a few penines, wouldn't recommend them personall. they lose their shap, get very huimd and are altogether a bit naff. if your going for plastic, pay out a bit more and get herp tek or vision, well worth the money.
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Old 02-04-2007, 11:03 AM
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cheap and chearfull
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Old 02-04-2007, 11:17 AM
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I like pennines as individuals and I think they make good vivs for beginners and are a good price for their size as they have the extra depth and height... but they're not an even shape which makes them precarious in stacks, would need shelving support between each level also and the heat really rises, the tops of mine get super hot and i wouldn't want to put anything directly on it.
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Old 02-04-2007, 05:54 PM
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yeah it was the shape that put me off the penines coz you cant stack them on top of each other. i really like the herpteks and the visions but they are the most expensive of the lot
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Old 02-04-2007, 06:48 PM
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those Rhino vivs look good but they are pretty expensive also.
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i have three pennines all stacked on top of each other........

works fine for me! i love them, want more
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Ive had a look at a few different ones recently and I like the herpteks and rhinos. If I was pushed I think I prefer the rhinos, they are a bit cheaper and I prefer the doors.

There is supposedly a new range being launched at the essex show that will not be much more expensive than melamine. They are suposed to be customisable also.
Whether these materialise or not is another matter though! How many times have we been promised new plastic vivs in the past that never materialised?!
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the only problem I have with my penine is that if you open the doors to lift it on uor ow, with you hands inside, like a wooden viv, or push down on the glass a bit to hard when locking it, the glass can pop out of the runners
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