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Hide Boxes

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Charlie

Too Far Gone
Hello,
I have two new snakes coming tomorrow. As of now, I cant find any hide boxes. Does anyone have any suggestions of what I could use for adult corns? Like stuff around the house? Or what makes the best hide boxes? I have four more adults coming in about a week so I could really use some ideas of what to use.

Thanks Charlene Dourty
 
Mine really like cereal boxes, ice cream tubs, shoeboxes with a hole in the lid, etc.

bmm
 
Thanks, it's 12:18 and I am just now getting around to putting their cages together. I just got home from work and was like, shoot, I have snakes coming in the morning. I bought some plastic bowls from the dollar store. My baby corns love them and you can get 4 for a 1.00.

Thanks Charlene Dourty
 
I used some of the plastic pots and pot bottoms that you can buy at Home Depot (forest green and terra cotta color plastic) or any home & garden store. For the pot bottoms I put a hole in the center and turned it over. For the pots I actually cut them in half making two cave type hides from one pot.

Or, you could get some of the bigger PVC pipe cut in half and make plastic log caves.

Also, for a quick hide I also used kleenex boxes.
 
It is amazing what other people can think of when you cant. I have all these things around the house, but i guess never thought of using them.

Thanks Charlene Dourty
 
i had the same prob. recently

I took a plastic square ice bucket i found from best western and cut a hole in it. I've also seen someone use one of those twist tops for a pitcher.
 
Vegas Ghost

You can also stuff a towel into a clay flower pot before hitting it with a hammer or such to keep it from cracking or busting. I learned that trick with cichlids and now use it for snakes. Flower pots turned upside down make great hides with a smoothed-out notch for entry. I can also show you what I've done with water bowls to double as a hide, works great especially for the cool side...
 
here's one...

the area underneath the bowl serves as a cool-side hide. Works great!:D
 

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Most of my water bowls are that way as well. My snakes LOVE them! I used a soldering iron to "cut" out most of the holes in my little water bowls. Later, I found some water bowls at PetSmart which already have holes in them. They have little paws on them for decoration, but they work well. They also come in different sizes...

I'll try to get a picture tomorrow.
 
I don't shop at PetSmart anymore. I went in there once to get mice for my snake, and first they said they didn't carry frozen, so I asked for live pinkies, and they told me that they couldn't sell a pinkie as it wouldn't survive away from it's mother. I said I only needed it to survive until I fed it to my snake, and the clerk said that they had a store policy NEVER to sell mice if they knew that they were going to be used as feeders. I tried to point out that they had crickets and feeder goldfish for sale, and it was basically the same thing except that mice are "cuter". The clerk wouldn't budge, and the manager said it was a company policy. So I returned the other items I had planned to purchase to the shelf and told them I wouldn't shop there anymore.
 
Our PetSmart doesn't

even HAVE mice. What a weird policy! Anyway, I did ask the manager at our PetSmart why they didn't have snakes for sale. I was just curious because most pet stores DO have at least a few. She told me that she wished they did carry some, but they aren't on their inventory list. I guess that was a nice way of putting that it was against policy.

They have other reptiles, so why not snakes? Actually I am glad they don't have more reptiles...because they DON'T know how to care for the ones they sell now. For example, their leos don't have enough humidity and they have trouble shedding. Most of the leos also had broken tails :(
 
There is a petco nearby that i go to sometimes (if NERD New England Reptile Distributers) does not have what I want. Well onetime I went in there was a baby ball python there and it's whole mouth was crammed with mulch. I told the "reptile specialist" about it and he didn't even seem to care.:(
 
water bowl

I went into a Dollar General store the other day and they had the water bowls with the holes in the side. Basically like the one Elrojo pictured but with the cutouts already in them.
They had the large 2 quart bowls for $1.50 and the 1 quart bowls for $1.00. Unfortunately they only had one of each but I did buy them.
 
I'm gonna start a new thread

regarding Petsmart. I'd advise folks to give other stores their business. It is located under misc cornsnake issues.
Glad you liked the waterbowls!:)
 
Our Petsmart is the same as well. They sell no mice, and the reptiles there don't look so well. The only things I have bought there are some thermometers and 1 cool tree stump looking hide. The people there know nothing about the animals they sell. I bought my girlfriend some fish there before and they always gave me a blank stare to the questions we had. I had better luck looking on the internet. I'm going to dollarland later to check out a waterbowl/hide heheh.
 
I went to PetSmart recently, to purchase some background pictures for my aquariums, and also needed to buy a small Anole (they are all over my house, but I don't really agree with removing anything from the wild) for scenting pinkies.

The guy made me fill out this form promising to take care of the animal or return it to the store if unable. I told him "Man I really don't need to fill this out, he's for a baby corn snake." Guess what, the Anole promptly went back into the holding tank, they refused the sale.

Their excuse to me was that "Selling snakes and feeders for reptiles doesn't fit the "Family Friendly" atmosphere that PetSmart tries to maintain."

I told the guy "it's friendly to my family, we keep snakes" and quickly pointed out, as mentioned above, the feeder goldfish and crickets, not to mention that all of the lizards that they DO have eating said insects.

I don't get it....

JCD
 
my question for petsmart would be where do they send their animals back to when they don't take care of them, cause I've seen some really sad looking creatures at several petsmarts...somebody should make them fill out a form promising to take better care of those critters!
 
THey are idiots. The people who work for them are idiots. Head office for both Petco and Petsmart are idiots. Basically any large pet store chain with the word "Pet" in it sucks.

It's absolutly ridiculous not to sell feeder mice while also selling feeder goldfish and crickets. Goes to show you that high school kids (most of their emploees and probably managers lol) aren't always "all there" when it comes to logic.

I would have said, fine I won't feed it to my snakes but I want pet mice. LOL.

bmm
 
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