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How many people actually use them?! Or do you guys just leave them be, because when their tub is closed its dark enough. Just wanted to see how many ppl use them. If so what is the best kinds for hatchlings, juvies, and adults. I use cat litter boxes for my Big Females, then a small plastic tuppawear container for hatchlings and juvies. I make sure to cover their containers with aspen bedding to make it darker, and put moss inside a quarter of it. I just wanted to see what others were actually using.
-Russell-

I used hides for my hatchlings, but once they reached a certain size they kinda stopped using them (and stopped fitting in them), so I just took them out. My adults rarely use a hide when I provide it, so I just leave their tubs be.
When I have them in a tank, I like to use shoeboxes for hides for my adults. Toilet paper tubes worked well for my babies, and I just hunt up appropriately sized boxes for anything inbetween.

Ironically enough, someone gave me a very nice fake rock hide that looks really awesome...my snakes hate it. Won't use it unless there's nothing else, and even then it's a maybe.

~jenny
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For hatchlings I use the bottom 2-3 inches cut off of a plastic cup works great up to about 100 grams - 4/$1 at the dollar store - I tried TP rolls and small cereal boxes but found that the plastic cups worked much better for me then cardboard - they were just easier to clean and didn't hold urine and mold. When they out grow the cups I give them a small black ESU type hide and then a bigger one as they grow - these I found are light weight and most of my snakes have learned that they can move the hide from one end of their tub to the other as they thermo-regulate. Anything over 2000 grams gets a cat pan.
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I try not to use them, but if I have a ball that seems stressed, then I will put one in. I use the zilla cubby holes. They work well and are pretty easy to clean. For example I have 20 balls and only 5 use hides. I try to wean them off of using the hides. Hope this helps...

I like to use cereal boxes. They are about the right size, and the right price. Free

They work well. Yes, they do get dirty easy but I just toss out the dirty one and replace it with a new clean one. Free, remember?

Good luck,

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Indiana_Dan

I personly only use hideboxes for my hatchlings... I have an adult female, that dosen't seem to use them. I've had one in there, but she just does not use it. My hatchling Spider loves it! My Pastel is more into corners. lol

I have used hides for nervous hatchlings but for the most part no hides are used with adults. I have a few sub adults that always try to get under anything they can, So I privide hides for them.Deep tubs with a dark area in the rear makes them feel secure.

They get hides as hatchlings or they are not eating well. My balls also get a hide if for some reason they decide to stop eating as adults for prolonged periods of time. With over 150 balls, I have zero hides.
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