Cheap Creative Hides

So I've learned that when it comes to hides, you could either spend the bucks and buy a "proper" hide from a pet store, or use something else. My corn Gar LOVES his paper towel roll! ( What am I gonna do when he out-grows it? PVC pipe??? ) It seems snakes like tubular hides. I've always wanted to use a plastic coffee can ( since it seems I have a metal block about throwing them out! ) but I'm worried about something. Even after I throw the coffee can in the dishwasher it still smells of coffee and I'm worried what that will do to their sensitive little respiratory system. Any thoughts? Advice??? Is this a stupid idea???

Devon

i personally have found better ways to make more natural looking hides, but i would doubt that the coffee smell would effect there respritory system, nor would it come out if you just kept washing it and washing it over and over....

If you're anything like my mother (who also keeps the coffee cans) you probably keep the plastic containers from yoghurt etc too! Use the plastic yoghurt tub or cottage cheese container or whatever. They're easy to wash and don't smell like coffee.

I've wondered about the coffee smell with snakes as well...I work in a coffee roastery/coffeehouse, there are a few different things that i've thought of for hides/ climbing 'branches' that I've decided not to use because of the smell. personally I just thought the snake wouldnt like it, I never thought of the health issues side of it...although I can tell you from experiance there is NOTHING that will take out the smell of coffee. I stink like work ALL the time.