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A Favourite Place To "Hide"

Willow771

Willow771

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The other day I finished the last of my eggs for breakfast...Mmm.....and was about to throw out the cardboard egg carton when i stopped and looked to Solomans Viv......

For kicks I threw it in there and after a few curiousminutes of exploring She slid in through the holes at the top of the carton. needless to say its her favourite place now. she never leaves it and rests with just her head poking out the holes in the top.

Might i suggest someone humour me and throw a cardboard egg carton in and fill me in on the results you get with your snakes. Soloman treats it like a hide AND a jungle gym. what fun...and pictures of these experiments would be greatly appreaciated.
 
Hehe...sounds almost like my dad. The containers that Chinese food is delivered in when they order it at his office has a black plastic bottom. He cuts a hole in there and uses them as hides for his snakes. Two of mine have it and all I ever see is them sitting there poking their heads out of it - it's hilarious. Good thing they like something that's easy to come by.

~Katie
 
Acutally egg cartons and paper towel rolls were our first hides, which 'Cassy' both loved. She really loves the flower pot saucer, someone had suggested as a hide. Easy, cheap hides! We also use some 'corner saver' (can't explain it very well). It is made of cardboard (but thick and sturdy) and looks like a pyramid, but has three openings on the bottom. A worker, who had put in a new bathroom left them for my kids to play with, now it makes a great new house for Cassy.
 
Last night I cut all the toes off my mis-matched socks to make little corn sleeping bags. So far all but 1 corn has given up the yogurt tubs in favor of the sock sleeping bags.

I'm hoping as an added bonus, the socks might still smell a little like me. Hopefully the more panicky younsters will not be so whippy when I handle them as a result. We'll see. :rolleyes:
 
The black plastic trays that lasagna, etc comes in make awesome hides. I have several and my snakes LOVE them!
 
Mine aren't really on the cheap, but for a couple of bucks each all my adults get Rubbermaid drawer organizers (off the top, I think they're 4"x6" or so) turned upside down with a two inch hole drilled in the top. My largest male at 700+ grams even fits underneath one.

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Step 1. Remove new snake from shipping box.
Step 2. Place snake in Viv.
Step 3. Remove styrofoam from shipping box.
Step 4. Cut flaps off of box and on one side cut out a hole 1.5-2 times larger than new snakes girth.
Step 5. Put box in Viv. upside down and watch snake rush in the door of it's new free home.
 
huge fan of toilet paper rolls for the little ones here! With some of my older ones I'll get creative with paper towl rolls and make little tunnel systems under their substrate so they have something to keep them occupied.
 
lasagna plastic tray, toilet paper and water bowl for me. For my babies, I bought some waterbowl at a dollars store that have 2 compartments (normally, one for the water and one for the food). So I cut them in 2 and got 2 waters bowl/hide for 1$! And they love it, they are always under these one.
 
I use upside down terra cotta pots. Chester likes to sit in it with his head poking out the hole.
Friends of mine cut square holes in the lid of a baby wipe box and put them in for their adults.
 
Daisy,
how do you put a hole in the terra cotta pots (I know they have one on the top), do you put another one in?
 
You cats are creative. I've just got caves from the pet store for my corns. They are often found in those, but more often they are simply burrowed in their Aspen substrate. However, my boa loves a spice rack (which is actually not in his viv anymore) and the bottom of a satellite chair.
 
Sabine66 said:
Daisy,
how do you put a hole in the terra cotta pots (I know they have one on the top), do you put another one in?
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It's just the hole in the bottom of the pot. The bigger the pot, the bigger the hole. You can knock a hole in the side by tapping on the edge with a ballpeen hammer, but you have to file down the sharp edges before using it.
 
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