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i just posted in a reply to someone in another one of my threads that i reuse 5qt ice cream tubs for snake uses. i use one for feeding, one to store my frozen rodents in, and another will be used when soaking them...

i just wondered what other things are reused/recycled to be used for snakes?

any other "green" ways that you use in your snake husbandry?

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~Snake Charmer~
0.1 russian tortoise (natasha)
3.1 dogs (church, bandit, willy and tonka)
0.2 cats (squeaky, cami)
2.1 'normal' ball pythons (zenith, butters, zahara)and i want more snakes. guess you can say im developing a "reptile addiction"- lol

Well I spot clean the aspen and when I change it, it goes out to the dog pen for my bulldog if that's what you mean. Also use old tupperware for hides and lay boxes, the icecream tub idea for rats and mice sounds great, except a guy posted below he had a girl over that wanted some icecream and went to look for it lol!
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Pastel 1.0
Spider 1.0
Normals 1.2
Het Pied 1.0
Leopard Geckos 1.1
American Bulldog 1.0

you actually let your dog lay / live on used snake bedding/??

that is like soooo wrong in so many ways....

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Yup, the used clean bedding. I also use old aluminum signs, car parts as antenna mounts for the fire department I'm with. Anything wrong with that? Of course not, its the same thing and of the same quality if I was to buy it. Plus, that dang dog has never used his 200$ house since we have had it lol.
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Pastel 1.0
Spider 1.0
Normals 1.2
Het Pied 1.0
Leopard Geckos 1.1
American Bulldog 1.0

.....I would just buy a new bale and dump the whole thing for the dog...

actually...I never let a dog sleep outside....

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Well I don't think I'd like my house smelling like dog. There must be a huge difference in weight between your dog and mine.
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Pastel 1.0
Spider 1.0
Normals 1.2
Het Pied 1.0
Leopard Geckos 1.1
American Bulldog 1.0

120 I bet ...maybe more....

...and it's a Golden ......

(you know...88 pound dogs....)

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125lbs last time he was weighed at the vet and there is hardly anything but muscle on him. My neighbor has a black lab thats really overweight and it's close to that.
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Pastel 1.0
Spider 1.0
Normals 1.2
Het Pied 1.0
Leopard Geckos 1.1
American Bulldog 1.0

Brian, no hard feelings, man, you seem like a real cool guy. I enjoy reading your posts, but the vet-tech in me is screaming at you and others that have dogs for outdoors only. I don't understand why would even bother getting or keeping a dog if its just going to live outdoors for the entirety of it's life at the end of a chain or in a pen??

Dogs are social, pack, and companion animals, and getting a dog should be so just for that -- to be your companion. Not your back yard decoration.

Making your house smell dog-free is a lame excuse. I have two German Shepherds, one is 80lbs at 9 months-old and the other upwards 100 . So yes, I do understand the sizes you are throwing out. My house is stink free, and I know countless other owners that have no dog-smell problems.

I'm sorry, but I feel strongly about this since I see countless outdoor dogs every week at my hospital due to their housing circumstances.

If your home is not adequate for the size of an American Bulldog, than why would you get one? I just don't get it.
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Cheers!
• Chelsea Lynn Gardiner
(and Frank M. Wood)

My Mastiff x St Bernard (cross)is only 130 lbs. and still acts like a lap dog. He is so much a part of the family plans are made arond him. Hell sometimes I think the wife may like him more. We have a king size bed so we are all comfortable.

N/P
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Cheers!
• Chelsea Lynn Gardiner
(and Frank M. Wood)

WOW
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1.0 het pied
1.0 sunrise (unproven ball python morph)
2.0 pastel
1.0 spider Het ghost
1.0 normal (rescue as he WAS VERY HUNGRY)
0.1 poss Het albino
0.1 het pied
0.5 Breeder normals
0.1 black pastel (unproven)
0.1 reduced pattern (unproven)
0.1 mojave (best looking one ever! thanks Jeff Luman)
0.1 pastel Het ghost
1.2 red tail boa
1.0 albino Het snow corn
0.1 albino Het snow corn
0.1 snow corn
2.2 felines aka boa food ;o

Brian H
Brianhettinger@hotmail.com

I save the hamburger meat trays from Wal-Mart ,the dark colored ones to make hides with . They come in all sizes but the 3lb. Size are the ones I use most . All you have to do after you wash them is cut out a door . David

for my first ball years ago, and plan on doing soon, I use empty shoe boxes, tupperware containers, I even used a mac n cheese box once. Any clean dry cardboard box works for me. And if it gets dirty I just get another..
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This is courage.. to bear unflinching what heaven sends. -unknown

0.2 chocolate lab Harley and basset Capone
0.1 leopard gecko (Nacho)
1.0 Normal ball (Arwen)

Been there done that lol. David

lol i used the mac n cheese thing before...when i had a corn snake. he was a baby when i got him/her...and i used it at the cool end. he spent so much time in the box that i named him noodles...lol
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~Snake Charmer~
0.1 russian tortoise (natasha)
3.1 dogs (church, bandit, willy and tonka)
0.2 cats (squeaky, cami)
2.1 'normal' ball pythons (zenith, butters, zahara)and i want more snakes. guess you can say im developing a "reptile addiction"- lol

Several things: I also deal with colubrids so things may not work strictly for balls

Hides: cereal boxes, lids to printer paper boxes (work great for sub adult bps), toilet paper/paper towel rolls (hatcling colubrids)

Water dishes: baby food jars for colubrid hatchlings, cheap bowls from the dollar store to catch any spilled water from the dish (cut a "u" in them and flip them over as a hide), dog dishes with the spaces on each side--act as a hide and dish holder or dish itself

Bedding: Shred newspaper in a shredder to act as aspen

Just a few ideas

ehehehe yep. the toilet paper roll worked great for feeding too.
like i mentioned earlier, i had a corn snake. and i didnt want to have to take it out of its tank to feed it, but then again i didnt want it to associate my hand with food time....sooo i would put the thawed food item in the toilet roll and put it somewhere in its tank..i made sure to never touch the food product-using tweezers to place it in the tube....
it would have to hunt for the food cause i would put it somewhere new every time....it also kept it from swallowing substrate...
it worked out pretty darn well,but i didnt want to do that with my bps because i figured they would grow out of the toilet paper roll too quickly to bother...lol
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~Snake Charmer~
0.1 russian tortoise (natasha)
3.1 dogs (church, bandit, willy and tonka)
0.2 cats (squeaky, cami)
2.1 'normal' ball pythons (zenith, butters, zahara)and i want more snakes. guess you can say im developing a "reptile addiction"- lol

any takout food item that came in any kind of black plastic container....hide...

the bottoms of 2 liter soda bottles...wait...they haven't made them in like 17 years....but I still have alot of them....

....peanut butter lids....coffee....etc etc

the plastic containers that electrical tape comes in...each roll...with lids...

gerbils will shred anything ....
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bleach bottles....cut in half...many uses....I use them for feed for rodents...as a scoop....

...detergent bottles....

gallon jugs cut off as laying chamber or moist hides...

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I use paper towels made from recycled paper sources (as they are cheap and still efficient). I also use take out bowls as hides and to incubate eggs in (and egg laying containers for my colubrids and geckos).

I have used various cardboard boxes as hides, paper towel and toilet paper roll tubes for hides for baby corn snakes. In the past I have used shredded newspaper with rats and mice as bedding and nesting material.

You can use pretty much anything you can get your hands on as snake hides that is clean and doesn't produce any harmful fumes when kept in a warm environment.
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PHLdyPayne