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does anyone made advanced hides?
- Thread starter Glock23
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Tula_Montage
It's Jager time!
Empty "Rice ready meal" boxes are as advanced as my snakes hides get... But theres a special few who have big expensive exo terra cave hides. I love them.
Roy Munson
New member
Keep a couple of things in mind:
1. Corns like snug hides.
2. Even a large corn takes up far less volume than you might imagine when it's all coiled up in a hide.
When I used to be concerned with natural looking vivs, I would buy those sheets of slate rock that they sell in the aquarium section of pet stores. Then I'd place a couple of sturdy rocks against the viv wall, and make a "lean-to" with the slate. The important thing is to make it a sturdy arrangement. My snakes loved these hides. Now I use bent cardboard and paper-towel tubes (for the young ones).
1. Corns like snug hides.
2. Even a large corn takes up far less volume than you might imagine when it's all coiled up in a hide.
When I used to be concerned with natural looking vivs, I would buy those sheets of slate rock that they sell in the aquarium section of pet stores. Then I'd place a couple of sturdy rocks against the viv wall, and make a "lean-to" with the slate. The important thing is to make it a sturdy arrangement. My snakes loved these hides. Now I use bent cardboard and paper-towel tubes (for the young ones).
jaxom1957
No one can own just one
marchettid
New member
Ive heard of people building hides out of lego's... I personally use many toilet paper/ paper towel rolls. I usually connect them by cutting a hole in the center, then fitting other rolls into the cut hole. For smaller snakes, I flaten the tubes, for larger snakes, I use halved tissue boxes (cutting from top to bottom). The hides most used are usually hides the snake can barely fit into.
desertanimal
2003 UB313
I use clay flowerpots. I chip out a door using pliers. It's good for me because when the snakes are in blue, I can soak the pot without making a spotty mess all over the viv. They stay in there anyway, no need to make the entire viv humid. And I don't like humid hides with moss--smells musty and humid. And they're cheap. So clay pots work well for me for a lot of reasons.
dwyn127
Cinderazzo
For hatchlings and sub-adults I use same as Joe, the flower pot trays. For the adults, I prefer drawer organizer trays. They're rectangular and take up very little space. They run about $2.50 at Target or Walmart.
Jax, I notice you use the regular Folgers, I think you'll find your animals to be more relaxed and easier to handle if you switch them to decafinated.:sidestep:jaxom1957 said:My "advanced" hides are Folger's Coffee AromaSeal canisters. I cut them around the middle and they make two perfect hides for anything up to three feet or 300 grams, possibly bigger. As the photo shows, I spared no expense
jaxom1957
No one can own just one
If I wasn't such a packrat, I wouldn't have had even those. For the past few years, I've been trying to kick one bad habit a year. Four years ago, I quit smoking: three packs a day to zero on November 1, 2003. Haven't had even one. Two years ago, I went on a diet and lost seventy pounds. Last year, I decided to cut down on coffee. Went from about a pot and a half a day to two cups or less a day. A can of coffee lasts a long time now.dwyn127 said:
But I digress
I didn't throw away the Folgers containers because every time I started to toss one, I would look at it and think, "These have to be good for something; better keep this." Before using them as snake hides, the only thing I found they were good for was microwave popcorn. One of the Folgers cannisters held exactly one bag of microwave popcorn I did give some thought as to whether the coffee dust left over might wire the snakes, so I washed them well before using them as hides. I gotta say, they work really well in my rack, and the snakes seem to like them.
dawnrenee2000
Contributing Member
I vote for the DOG BOWLS from walmart. Those plastic big dog bowls that are hollow underneath and have two openings on the bottom on each side are the favorite hiding place for my snakes ranging from 100 grams to 900 Grams. THey are very versitile too since the water goes in the top !
dwyn127
Cinderazzo
That's a great story. I've had some similar situations myself. I quit drinking in 1983; I was at about a case of Michelob a day. It was kicking my butt. That plus it made me want to rob gas stations.:grin01:jaxom1957 said:
I smoked cigarettes from age 13 to 28. I wanted to quit for 5 years before I finally did. I hated menthol so I started smoking them hoping it would motivate me more; how's that for sane rational? Spent the last 5 years smoking both. Finally quit on the American Smoke Out day in 1988 two months after watching my mother die from lung cancer.
Same as you, went cold turkey over night and haven't looked back. And what a life style change. Went from a heart pounding after walking a flight of stairs to riding a bike 100 miles a week.
As for the coffee, if I could run an IV I just might considerate it.
I'm actually typing this in a Starbucks.:grin01:
jaxom1957
No one can own just one
LOL I had to have some blood tests two years ago and they required I not eat anything for twelve hours prior. That morning, I had two cups of black coffee before going to the lab. When the lab tech said my results might be inaccurate because the coffee would affect my metabolism, I explained it to her: "Coffee is my metabolism." I started trying to cut down not long after thatdwyn127 said:
SnakeCreations
Ophiolatress
I use whatever recycle stuff I'm about to throw into recycles..... I like clay flowerpot bottoms as well. My only criteria is I need to be able to throw it away or throw it in the diswasher.
I learned when I got some mites with a new snake shipment.... and I just don't want to throw away expensive stuff. I also don't want to risk infecting one snake to the other should I ever have a break out of the unspeakable bug.
Make sense?
-Tonya
I learned when I got some mites with a new snake shipment.... and I just don't want to throw away expensive stuff. I also don't want to risk infecting one snake to the other should I ever have a break out of the unspeakable bug.
Make sense?
-Tonya