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or am the only cheapskate? They work great cause they are disposable and with 6 people at our house we go through ALOT of cereal....
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I have a few ratsnakes hiding in them right now. Toilet paper rolls for babies, upside down plastic bowls for younger snakes, and cereal/cracker boxes for the bigger ones. Yup, they work out just fine.

I would add inverted egg cartons, flat pieces of carboard bent in 1 or 2 places, broken pottery, plastic food trays from frozen dinners and anything else that works. Cocohuts work very well if you can stand to part with the 2 or 3 dollars.

This snake is ready for something a little bigger.

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Randy Hallman

If you look to the left on the first pic, you can see one of the tissue boxes I use for that snake, and the black rectangle in the second pic is a CD slip cover. They work really well for hatchlings. But the point is that I'm loathe to part with even a few dollars when I regularly throw out so many things that make good or decent hides.

Nothing wrong with low tech low cost when the little guys are growing, you can always build the ultimate enclousure whenever he or she decideds to stop growing!!

The bottom few inches of a 3 quart orange juice jug makes a great hide too. More work, but you can wash.

works for me!!

Much household refuse can be utilized as hides. All sorts of boxes, cardboard tubes, broken flower pots--you are limited only by your imagination. I have one kingsnake who lives under an old straw hat, and curls around the crown on the brim to bask. My 4' "baby boa" hides under a discarded woven basket turned upside down with the handles removed. Simply cut an access hole.

I also do a lot of shopping online since I hate malls. I am delighted with the variety and quality of cardboard shipping boxes that land on my doorstep. I stock pile them to use as hides if they are clean and the right sizes. With 20 snakes in the collection, I don't want to spend the bucks for fancy hides, nor do I want to spend the time to clean and sanitize them. Plus, the boxes, when finally thrown away, will add some extra organic matter to the landfill(LOL).
rgds,
althea

I use dish pans placed bottom up on aspen substrate & cut to 1/2 their original height (about 4", with a entry hole in 1 side & 1 in the top. My corns hardly ever come out of them.