Created my own hides

I've seen several pictures of peoples store bought hides and their plastic home made hides and realized that I/we could do better.

I think the plastic hides are terrible, for looks and for the snake. In the wild, it's never going to hide in something made out of plastic. It's going to go into burrows made of hard dirt and rock. The best store bought hides are the nice heavy artificial rock hides, because of their roughness and more realistic look and feel. But I know that still doesn't beat the real thing.

So I found some nice flat rocks and mad my own hides.

This one is my larger hide, it can easily fit one snake at a time, but when they both try to squeeze in, it gets a little tight lol. And I got a little glue crazy as you can see by the drippage, but it is a snake hide after all and they won't notice haha. I used a low odor epoxy and waited a week to put it in there with them. (and it's also cute that they are laying in almost the same position:)
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This one is smaller and especially made for my snake Apollo. He has investigated it quite a bit, but hasn't been all the way in it yet. He is just cautious, he will use it soon. The thing on the right buried is a toilet paper roll. I figured he might like checking it out tonight when he comes out.
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Looks good. The rock hides that I have are too big I think so mine prefer smaller hides at the moment. I think the most enjoyed hides that I have are kind of like rocks and are very tight almost to the point where I can see them still from the sides. It reminds me of snakes hiding under boards in the wild.

I prefer naturalistic cages too. I would love to get rid of the litter box hides my 30lb blood has, which are actually to small now. I would love a better looking hide but sometimes its just not realistic.

For hides that are a little to large you can put moss in it to make it feel smaller and more secure to the snake.

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Originally Posted by Eric Alan

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HAHAHAH I get it! does it have to do with :snake:+:snake:

Why for :snake:+:snake:?

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Originally Posted by CatandDiallo

Why for :snake:+:snake:?

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Because most people on this forum believe it's a bad idea to keep two bps in the same enclosure. I personally have done it successfully on a couple of occasions so I don't see what's the big deal is.

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1) Nice hides.
2) People with larger collections typically prefer plastic hides as they are easy to clean and disinfect. Rocks and wood are porous so they will absorb what the snake leaves behind.
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Originally Posted by bcr229

1) Nice hides.
2) People with larger collections typically prefer plastic hides as they are easy to clean and disinfect. Rocks and wood are porous so they will absorb what the snake leaves behind.
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Lol!

In regards to the plastic hides, I absolutely agree.