Hides and water dishes?

For those who have many snakes and hatchlings, what do you use for hides and water dishes?
I'm assuming there is a site where they can be ordered for cheap in bulk.

I don't use hides for all of my snakes. The only time I add a hide is when I have trouble with eating. As long as my ball pythons are eating and shedding okay I assume they are fine. If I do have to add hides, I don't like PVC hides, I use the heavy exo terra ones, I find the snakes like them better.

For water dishes I buy porcelain baking dishes from the dollar store, they come in 2 different sizes and are 2/ $1. The attached picture is a high quality and expensive one, but you get the general idea.

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I don't go cheap on my hides or water bowls for my babies. They get the best of the best.

But I do enjoy a good Dollar Store adventure from time to time.....

For small snake water dishes I like the melamine pet bowls from the dollar store. My juvenile corn and king snakes (kept in tanks on aspen substrate, not tubs/racks) also like them as they can hide under them. I looked at the ceramic bowls and passed as many were cracked. Other folks have recommended the heart and star-shaped candy/potpourri dishes for their adults since they're almost undumpable. My largest snakes get sterilite tubs that have a large footprint but aren't tall, again so they're less likely to be dumped when the snake decides its bath time (moreso the boas than the ball pythons).

For snake hides, don't laugh, but these are all very inspensive or even free (after you eat the food): margarine or whipped topping tubs, the plastic containers for Manchuran-brand or take-out meals, small plastic planters/seedling pots, Glad-brand "Oven Ware" containers, plastic mud/cement mixing tubs, and plastic bus pans (like a restaurant would use).

I use deli cups. Cheap and can be thrown away. If you have lots of snakes, it will save you a ton of time cleaning. For smaller snakes, 8 oz. For larger snakes I use 16 oz. inside of a PVC 4" coupler to prevent them from turning them over. If I were to use washable bowls, it would take me just a couple of hours to wash them. If you have ample storage space buying in bulk it can be pretty inexpensive.

My adults don't use hides. Babies have Reptile Basics hides. I do have some larger hides for adolescents who go off feed, but rarely use them. I buy those in bulk as well.

All of my snakes have hides, varying from a T-shaped PVC connector for my baby royal, to a cut beer box (don't laugh, at least it is a microbrew rather than some generic piss-water). For water dishes we generally use Pyrex bowls we have found at the dollar store nearby. For one of my wife's snakes, she has made a hide out of LEGOs, and builds a new one with each new season/holiday...right now there is a giant skull in his tank.

My water dishes right now include a 9"x9" glass bake pan, a big heavy bowl, recycled plastic mashed potato containers from KFC (for the KSB that just ignores it) and an actual corner water bowl for snakes. I have great luck finding large, heavy bowls at Goodwill.

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Originally Posted by Diasnis

For one of my wife's snakes, she has made a hide out of LEGOs, and builds a new one with each new season/holiday...right now there is a giant skull in his tank.

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Pictures!

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That's awesome!

For babies, hides and water bowls are the same thing mostly, 8oz deli cups. Some of them have toilet paper or paper towel centers for hides, and in my reptile basics baby rack the water bowls are gerber baby food containers, the square plastic ones work perfectly (but only the shortest size).

Larger snakes, I do have some of the 16oz deli cups in 4" pvc couplings that work great, I also have a lot of the 99cent non tipping dog water bowls from walmart that are kind of "M" shaped, many of those have deli cups sitting inside them to hold the water also and the water bowls act as a hide well enough.

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Here you are :-P

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