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Everyday Items?

Nachash

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Do you use everyday items, not originally designed for use with snakes, for the care of your snake? I love this idea. I'm all about creative use and re-use. I saw this thread idea on another snake forum. I thought this community would have some fabulous ideas! Hope it hasn't been done, at least not for a while. If it has, forgive me. I am quite new!

Thanks all! Looking forward to your ideas:)
 
Corns love the inside tubes from toilet rolls (hatchlings) or kitchen roll, cut in half lengthways. Also cereal boxes or similar (with one of the larger sides cut off so you can just lift them up to find the snake). Free disposable hides! I also raid my local dollar store (UK equivalent) in the spring for papier mache hanging basket liners. Cut a hole in them and turn them upside down for more lightweight, cheap hides. For more robust hides I use earthenware flowerpots turned upside-down, with the drainage hole enlarged (remember to make it the same size as a freshly-fed snake though - you don't want the embarrassing visit to the vet that I once had with my Pumpkin...).

Plastic lidded tubs with a hole cut in the top or side, are perfect for humid hides or laying boxes if you breed. A few of mine arrived in my house as cookie containers, or again, you can raid the dollar store.

My garden centre supplies horticultural grade vermiculite for humid hide or laying box substrate and my local hobby shop stocks cheap plastic foliage (supposed to be for permanent floral arrangements but they make great ground cover in a tank and are cheaper than "proper" reptile ones - you just have to make sure there are no sharp wire ends sticking out)

Water dishes are again larger plastic tubs - rectangular ones when full seem much more difficult to barge about than round containers. The more active of my gang have big ceramic dog bowls for their water. No chance of the snakes shifting those.

To carry snakes around outside the house, I first put them in pillowcases and tie the top with a shoelace. I then put the pillowcase+snake in an escape-proof plastic travel tank and pad/insulate it with old towels before putting the lid on.
 
I would stay away from the terracotta type flower pots. There was a member on here that by bad luck the snakes tongue actually got stuck to it. I can't remember if the snake made it or not.

My big snakes have old butter containers, cereal boxes and plastic flower pots as hides. They LOVE the cereal boxes. The babies have cream cheese containers, toilet paper and paper towel tubes as hides. Almost all of the snakes except those in display tanks have dog water dishes that are hollow underneath and little notches out of the sides. So those double as a water dish and a hide. They all LOVE those babies and adults.
 
All my adults and most of my juveniles have Target Wine Cube boxes for hides. You may as well call them snake traps, the snakes love them so much! I put a crumpled sheet of newspaper inside.

I have a set of JC Penney Cooks brand plastic mixing bowls that I use for mice thawing bowls. They have a small spout in the rim, so I can run water from a large bowl into a small bowl and thaw more than one size at a time. Since these are plastic, they are easy to tell apart from my heavy ceramic human mixing bowls, so I don't (usually) use the mouse thawing bowls for cooking.
 
yes!

Almost all of the snakes except those in display tanks have dog water dishes that are hollow underneath and little notches out of the sides. So those double as a water dish and a hide. They all LOVE those babies and adults.

that was the idea that prompted me to start this thread! i love the dog water bowls. i got some really stylish bamboo ones at petco on clearance. they are totally nice enough for the snakes on display. well, at least for mine. nothing fancy here.

great ideas! keep them coming!
 
Almost all of the snakes except those in display tanks have dog water dishes that are hollow underneath and little notches out of the sides. So those double as a water dish and a hide. They all LOVE those babies and adults.

What a great idea! I'll have to make a trip to the pet store tomorrow to get a couple.

Cheers,
Rebecca
 
Glass mayo jar for thawing mice in. To water I use a 2 gallon snap lid container with a whole in the top I then use a turkey baster to get the water out and into the bowls no spills. Most times I can drip the water in the bowl rite through the screen lid without having to lift it and disturb the snake. Old meat thermometer for checking soaking water temps. Egg timer for waiting period after a snake has just eaten a meal.
 
All of my corns have dog dishes (mostly from the dollar store). When we had hatchlings this summer, I used tealight candle holders (small, heavy glass bowls in rainbow colors) for their water bowls so they couldn't tip them. I'd started using pop caps, but those spilled way too easily.

The larger snakes have Capri Sun boxes as hides. The babies have toilet paper rolls or boxes from Kool Aid drink sticks for hides. The juveniles all have hamster igloos for hides.
 
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