Favorite Hides?

I have all kinds of hides from the expensive natural looking ones to the cheapest.

Jojo's Favorite.
I made Jojo a hide out of a Cinimon Toast Crunch box. I trimmed to box back to make it shorter and put some aspen bedding inside of it. He went in there and moved around the substrate to make him self a nice recessed area toward the back and he loves it in there. I think i might make him another one for the warm side.

Coconut's Favorite.
I put the core from a role of paper towels in his tank so he can pass back and forth from hide to hide without being left out in the open. But instead of just passing through he hides in there now. He is small enough not to get stuck so lucky for me.

EDIT: I forgot to add that Coconut also likes those small cereal boxes you know the kind that come in the variety pack.

I want to hear what kind of hides your snakes have.

Have used all sorts as well - of the commercially available ones the Exo-Terra "cave rocks" hides are my fave in the aesthetics category:

http://www.reptiledepot.com/pics/exohide.jpg

In the budget category, plastic planters flipped upside down with a door cut out rule.**

I have said "feck wood!" and tossed all the cute lil hollow half-logs etc. Too easy for stuff to grow in them and bacteria can get in that porous stuff - soaking it in bleach solution to counter that and you'll need loads of time for the thing to dry adequately and never be sure you got it rinsed thoroughly enough.

** And although I dont have a pic of them handy I employ these a lot more heavily than the looks-pretty-but-costs-like-it hides.

I have both of the ones at the top of the picture.

Favorite hides include a dog water dish (underneath), the coconut fiber basket hide, the clay igloo I made, rocks, and the ESU Reptile Drip System shown below.

http://www.petsmart.com/media/ps/ima...large_d2a5.jpg

In addition to what Smulkin posted, I recently picked up some pvc pieces that are used to join big fat pipes with skinnier pipes, so they are wide on one side, but narrow on the other. I put the wide side down on the substrate with the narrow side up. My new babies crawl in from the top and curl up on the bottom.

I use those exoterra ones for now but I'm gonna make a coconut fiber like Marla has when my new tank arrives.

I have a plastic planter with sponge pieces glued to the ceiling that I can moisten for a humid hide during shed times and a terra cotta chip and dip dish broken in half. It has a little bowl in the middle and sits about 3 inches high (upside down, of course). My bp seems to like them both equally, he thermoregulates throughout the day and night. I am considering a coconut fiber hide as well because I think they look better than the plastic planter.

The exo-terra caves are great! I have the medium one (which amber is quickly outgrowing) and it absorbs heat, making it probably pretty cozy and secure inside. She can stay warm w/o getting hit directly by the red light from the heat lamp.

I got one of those medium ones too. It used to be in Jojo's house. He looked so funny trying to hide under this little cave. He would be under it but he would stick out on all sides. You had to see it.

Haha Damien, Amber is almost there with Jojo then. It takes her a few mins to get her whole body in there, and in the process she sometimes pics up the whole hide and it shifts around with her as she wiggles around. I'll be getting the large size cave soon, but yeah it looks really funny...

I have two black plastic bowls that I got from the carry-out up the street that are 6" round and about 2" deep> I just flip them over and cut a hole in the side and Bam a hide. For shed I will slip a small pc of wet sponge right inside.I got some fake plants secured on the outside top for "real look" :) At the store I found these 8"x8"x2 1/2" plastic disposable tupperware bowls which I am gonna use when I get the new cage along with a Marla coconut fiber hide.

My favorite hide? It has to be the equal box I put in there... Munch loves it.

Sounds like the coconut fiber hide may become the unofficial bp.net hide. :lol: