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sweetest hides

plasticknives

plasticknives

the bee's knees: all six
whats the most creative/best hide you've ever used for a snake?
i have a good thing going with an egg carton at the moment - its the perfect size for a hatchling to explore and provides two places to hide for the price of one!

anyone else have any suggestions?
 
Toilet paper rolls hung from the screen lid via old fly fishing line. My corn LOVES her "swingset"...
 
She digs it...and I know a few others on here have similar types of setups for their snakes:
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I love that toilet paper roll idea!

When I got Sir Killsalot he had a beat up old kleenex box as a hide so I went out and got him something nicer. Did he appreciate the effort? Nooooo, he did not. He kept looking at the spot his kleenex box was and then looked at me and then back at the spot. I put the new hide in and showed it to him but he went back to the spot the kleenex box was in and curled up right there. I'm positive that if snakes could cry, he would've right then. I put the new hide where the stupid kleenex box had been and left him overnight to get used to it. The next day I woke up to find him on the other side of the tank, crunched into the corner, staring at the new hide. This went on for two more days.

Guess who won that battle?

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it's pretty weird how you can actually tell which hides they like and dislike, huh.

I had about 5 in a 30 gal tank because Tolmie's just un petit bebe,
so i figured she'd need a bunch of hidey holes to avoid being all stressed out and such, but she only ever used one.
Instead, shed go and sit BEHIND the other hides, try and settle in, squirm around as if to say "UGH this is so UNCOMFORTABLE" and then go hide in her one favorite hide.

so i took the ones she didn't ever use ( a yogurt container and a little tiny cardboard box) and replaced them with an egg carton, and she loves it to death.

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(the little black one is the only one she used.)

i guess i'm just spoiling the little bratnik, but she was so good yesterday when i took her out i figured y'know hey, what's a little coddling in the grand scheme of things?



I'm going to be a horrible mother. My kids will OWN me.
 
I've used polystyrene and tile grout to make a hide, I'm also using large bamboo shoots, cut in half
 
the ones i found were already cracked in half, but... i guess you could use a saw. it would be a tricky task though.

Im all about the natural hides. I dont have anything store bought in my cornsnakes tanks
 
Special pink hide I made for Gracie out've plaster of paris... :)
 

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My snake's favorite hide is an old turtle shell. Sometimes she'll stick her head out the front and look like a turtle with a freakishly small head and long skinny neck.
 
that. is. AMAZING.

can you give a step-by-step on how you made that? i'd love to try to make one for tomie when she gets a little bigger...
 
(my last post was in refernce to that excellent pink hide)

haha i tried to imagine an odd amalgamation of a turtle and a snake and it made me laugh.
got any pictures of the shell hide?
 
plasticknives said:
(my last post was in refernce to that excellent pink hide)

haha i tried to imagine an odd amalgamation of a turtle and a snake and it made me laugh.
got any pictures of the shell hide?
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That pink hide is pretty cool I'd like to make one too.
I'll try to have a camera ready next time my snake comes out of her shell.
 
I have a reptile cave from ExoTerra that I have NEVER seen him in, "clay" tiles that I stack to make ledges and caves (he likes these), a water bowl that is partly hollow (he uses it sometimes), and his favorite- an old margarine container full of damp moss, with a hole cut in the lid.

When he was very small, I had one of those green foam trays from tomatoes (the vine ripened kind we get from the south and west all winter here on the East Coast) in there, with a gap cut in the side. He LOVED that thing, but outgrew it pretty fast.
 
plasticknives said:
that. is. AMAZING.

can you give a step-by-step on how you made that? i'd love to try to make one for tomie when she gets a little bigger...
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I certainly can. :) I'll pick up the supplies this weekend to make another one and I'll post instructions & step by step on how I made it.

Here's another one I made (more "natural" looking).
 

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Mine love the kleenex box hide also. I also made some hides for the babies from those small round cannisters the crystal light packets came in. Cut a small triangular hole in the removable plastic lid and they love to hide in there.
 
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