Hide dilemma, solved !

My Super Blast boy "Phoenix" loves his small hide dearly.
Never mind he outgrew it quickly.
He just decided he will carry it around on his back !!!


http://photos.imageevent.com/morgens...e/SAM_0389.JPG


He moves it around, and as long as his eyes are hidden in there, so is he, LOL.


http://photos.imageevent.com/morgens...e/SAM_0394.JPG


Ever the innovative snake , he decided to re-arrange his hides once again. After all, if you have TWO hides, why not use both of them ???
Smart Phoenix !


http://photos.imageevent.com/morgens...e/SAM_0444.JPG


Can't wait to see what he comes up with next ;)

Thanks for looking :)

you know I dont know that I would call him smart.. challenged.. Yes.. smart.. well ....lol

Hhahahahha Thats cute lol.

Ha, that's cuteeee :P

Oh my gosh, I laughed so hard when I read this! All of my young snakes look exactly like your pic...carrying their hides around like they are turtles! :rofl:

I wish RBI made those hides between the small and med size!

my girl looks like a turtle with the hide boxes when she's got a full belly. she's even managed to end up with them flipped over IN FRONT of her when she moves too much. i just go in and put it back on top of her.
i'm thinking of going from the small RBI hide boxes to 2 of these...
ok sorry i cant get the image to save as .JPEG, it keeps saving as .PHP...
anyways it's the small round one at freedombreeder.com. it's only an inch bigger dimensionally then the small RBI ones and then i'm thinking about going with the medium one of these hides...

http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k...mhidebox-1.jpg

that way i'd be gradually increasing the sizes of the hides and not jumping from 5.5" to 10".
so basically i'd be going from 5.5" to 6.5" to 8.5" and then finally to the 10" RBI.

Haha! Very cute! Such a handsome boy too!

Thanks all :)

Yes, I wish there was an "intermediate" size in the reptile basics hides. I LOVE those hides, but the jump from small to medium is quite large !

He dearly loves his small hide, so when he is moving to the bigger tub today it will have the 2 md. hides they all have, plus I'll put his small hide in there for him as well. It will feel like home for him ;)

Has anyone asked reptile basics if they would consider making a size in between ? I might look into the other hides, too, but I like the opening on the side better.

That is just way too cute! How adorable! I love these snakes and how they just rearrange everything!

I only give one hide to my BPs in an enclosed rack system. For my large BPs over 2000 grams, I go with no hide and all do perfectly fine. I just find it to cluttered having two hides in a small area like that. Outside of winter "off feed" months, all of my BPs have had no issues eating, etc with my setup. The rack itself provides additional security but this is just just my op, feel free to disagree. Nice pic though Lu!

Mine go through a system ;)
They start in a 15 qt tub (sweater size) which comfortably holds 2 small hides, waterbowl and room to spare.
Eventually they move on to the 32 qt size with 2 medium hides and a waterbow. Again, some room to spare.

I like that they have small, tight hides in either warm and cool end, but still some room in between.

As they get older and bigger they should feel relaxed and safe enough to get by with only one hide in the larger tub and eventually even no hide. That will depend on the snake itself.

So far this is easy to maintain and works great for me :)

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Originally Posted by zina10

Thanks all :)

Yes, I wish there was an "intermediate" size in the reptile basics hides. I LOVE those hides, but the jump from small to medium is quite large !

He dearly loves his small hide, so when he is moving to the bigger tub today it will have the 2 md. hides they all have, plus I'll put his small hide in there for him as well. It will feel like home for him ;)

Has anyone asked reptile basics if they would consider making a size in between ? I might look into the other hides, too, but I like the opening on the side better.

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Freedom Breeder makes a great hide that was designed for Ball Pythons by Kevin from NERD. Here is a picture of one of my 1400 gram Females in the Medium sized one. They hold either a deli-cup water bowl or in my case a 4” crock dish. This size is good up to about 1800 grams but they have a larger one that would be fine for those big girls that still need hides.

http://www.albeysreptiles.com/images/ballcage_hide1.jpg


Here is the link to them at the Freedom Breeder site.
http://www.freedombreeder.com/reptil...hide-boxs.html

PS Great looking Super Blast. :gj:

wow, thats interesting looking !!

Thanks :)

Oh that's so cute:)