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Home-made Hide ???

mikul07

mikul07

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I have a store-bought hide for my young corn snake over his heating pad and want to put another hide for him on the cooler side of his habbitat. I want to keep a very natural look and feel in his habbitat and wanted to build him a hide personally from twigs and sticks and such from outdoors, after taking all the precautions of baking and sterilizing the branches to make them safe, do you think hot gluing or super gluing the branches together would be a bad idea or a danger to my snake ?

Open to any and all discussion/opinion/advice
 
I really honestly dont know.... sometimes those things after drying can leave little sharp points we may not see or feel but the snake might... if you want to do that I would get some florist tape.... its usually green, sticks to itself but nothing else so no danger of the snake getting caught on it and since its green it might blend in.... not sure but that is what I use for putting fake plants together for my snakes.... that or vet tape.. it also only sticks to itself but is more expensive :) Good luck :) Also, you might want to look around here.... there were a couple gals that were making hides and they looked really cool.... made of a certain clay type stuff and you could make it look anyway you wanted it to :) again good luck :)
 
Personally I dont think I would want to make one out of twigs and sticks. As said above they could have sharp bits that would be dangerous for your snake, and also I dont know how safe the glue would be to use? Either way, if you want something natural, I would suggest you buy a piece of cork bark, it looks great, isnt very expensive, and my ghost loves it! :)
 
I have home-made hides and store bought hides in my snake's cage and his favorite place is underneath Taquitos box. :shrugs:

You could go to a pet store or landscaping place and buy some flat stones and build a cave.
 
You can often find a small pot in the garden section with a bit of the rim broken off (which is a ready made entrance) and talk the clerk into either giving it to you or selling it to you for pennies. If you're worried about the sharp edges, run a file across it.
 
I have paper towel tubes suspended from the top of the cage, and my corns absolutely love them. Cheap, too!
 
Carpet

While were talking about hide and stuff what do you think about the green carpet for sub-straight in the cages?
 
MO said:
While were talking about hide and stuff what do you think about the green carpet for sub-straight in the cages?
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I used repti carpet green astroturf for a few months. I have now switched to aspen and find it more convenient. The green carpet does look nice, but even if you have a spare piece (one to put in the viv while the other is washed) its still awkward for cleaning. It means lifting out every hide and thing on the vivarium to get the carpet out to clean it after a big poop. Also, they can't burrow in it.
 
I think superglue would be safe too as long as it the cyanoacrylate kind. When I was into reef aquariums I would use that with some very sensitive invertibrates and it wouldn't hurt them.
 
I made my own hide out of a log I found in the backyard. It is basically your standard log, split in half, with a V cut into the middle of it. On top I drilled a hole in it and put a fake plant sticking out of there. I placed it above the heating pad. My snake loves to crawl under it and hide, and also go on top and bask in the infrared light or just hang out on the fake plant. Cost me pretty much nothing and i had a great time making it too. :dancer:
 
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