those of you with tanks

How do you secure your lid? My snake got out this morning but luckily wasn't too far away. I keep 2 5 lb. weights on it and guess that wasn't enough. I want to make some kind of wooden frame around it and put a hinge or something on the top so you have to undo it before the top can be removed. Any pictures of your setups?

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Originally Posted by tmlowe5704

How do you secure your lid? My snake got out this morning but luckily wasn't too far away. I keep 2 5 lb. weights on it and guess that wasn't enough. I want to make some kind of wooden frame around it and put a hinge or something on the top so you have to undo it before the top can be removed. Any pictures of your setups?

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I have a slide top one that locks under clips on the backside. I specifically bought this one for my BP. I did see in the stores where they sell lock clips for reptile tanks. Maybe somethingn like that would work. I would have the same questions about tubs though. Is it safe to trust the lid alone that snaps on or do you all use some kind of other method to keep the lid shut?

Peace

Is the mesh lid and the top frame of the tank made of metal or plastic? If metal you can find special metal clips at Meijers, most pet stores, etc. They come two to a package and are very strong. You can put as many on as you want and they will keep a metal framed mesh lid so snug to a tank top that even our daughter's little baby milksnake couldn't squeeze out.

We've been using these clips for a year on that milksnake's tank and they are just as tight and hard to remove as they were a year ago. If you need pics of them let me know.

2 of those metal clips franky is talking about does it for me...

The only ball I keep in a tank is a male I rescued last year, I only use tape on the lid, 2 pieces on each corner. Works for me and been like that for about a year and never had a problem but I would reccomend the clips designed for the lids. The people who originally got him as a hatchling had him with about 3 bricks on the lid and him even that small figured a way to push the lid off?

Yep metal clips hold all my enclosures lids on tight like a :snake: :hug:a :rat:.


:lockd: your tank with clips so your :snake: does not :gallery: out on his own cause then you will be :worry: :confuzd: that he :bolt:. He is not safe out of his home, it is not warm enough and he could get :sick: or even worse :tombstone .

But if your :snake: is :lockd: in his enclosure you can :relax: and have a :banana:day.

Just my :2cent:. Stick a :spork: in me I am done.


-Danny :rolleye2:

Danny thank you for the nice laugh early on a Saturday morning!

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Originally Posted by Spaniard

2 of those metal clips franky is talking about does it for me...

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I had two on Oreo's tank and they weren't enough---had to go to two on EACH long side to snap the lid on tight enough. Get the kind that you can squeeze to tighten occas. NOT the clips that have the metal hook piece that fits up under the rim of the tank and then the clip snags. The little piece always manages to get fall out and get lost under the shelves on my mouse tanks & lids. :irkd:

Kishnah's lid is the screened plastic kind w/the clips that angle up from the lid in the back and then snap again on the front, but she got out once when it didn't get pushed firmly all along the rim, all the way around...she found a hole & squeezed out.

Precious' is just one clip ea. side, but he's MUCH chunkier than Oreo, since Precious is a ball, and Oreo is our "earf worm" baby KSB.

Even the tubs have the office supply clips all along the long sides. Big ones for Hera, littler ones for the tubs of Apollo and Pinky. CeCe's tub is six little clips and a bungee cord down the length.

After Felix all but escaped and was only hanging by the end of his tail, his lid is TWO bungee cords and some clips.

R

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Originally Posted by tmlowe5704

How do you secure your lid? My snake got out this morning but luckily wasn't too far away. I keep 2 5 lb. weights on it and guess that wasn't enough. I want to make some kind of wooden frame around it and put a hinge or something on the top so you have to undo it before the top can be removed. Any pictures of your setups?

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I stack my Harry Potter books on top of one another. Three on both ends.

I have two straps, that are kinda like backpack strap material. The straps buckle and go around the entire tank, one on each end. It holds the lid on tight.

Could someone PLEASE post a pic of the clip systems described above? I'm having a tough time visualizing it.


I've got a metal mesh top atop a long 20 gallon that I have secured with two nylon straps, one on each end. It's secure, but it obviously stresses my snake when I cinch the straps tight. Seems to be the vibration as the straps tighten. When I start to cinch them, he gets hyper-active, slithering frantically from one side of the tank to the other before fleeing into his hide. I got him more than two weeks ago and he still hasn't eaten--and I watched him eat before adopting him.

I'd really like to switch to clips so he'll be more comfortable and, hopefully, take a mouse.

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Originally Posted by digcolnagos

Could someone PLEASE post a pic of the clip systems described above? I'm having a tough time visualizing it.

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Here is a photo of them in a bag. Not too clear, but you know what to look for. They come in many sizes. http://www.petco.com/Shop/Product.as...familyID=4353&

http://mud.mm-a2.yimg.com/image/656424761

Why thank you Allison.

I do agree that some of my bigger girls in the 40g breeders need a clip left/right
forwards/backwards. Four in total just like the picture above. They are strong little clips. Apply them and then try to lift a corner. Nope it is not going to happen and just think you have leverage from above. Not pushing with your nose/head from below. Just my :2cent:


-Danny

I use those for Ginger's 40g-long tank, as well as for the tank my new Pastel is giong in; strong little suckers! As long as your lid fits right with them on, you should actually be able to lift the tnak by the lid when it's attached. I have never had an escapee using these.

I use the clips on several cages and no one has escaped.The only thing i have ever had a problem using the clips was on a 125 gallon enclosure we had for our boa.Every now and then i would have to reshape the clips,sometimes she would push up a little.She never escaped though;) .

Here's a picture; sorry, I meant to put in my last post. It shows the clips "in action" on Ginger's 40-long tank. They are the clips pictured a few posts back by BoidFanatic. :)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...ankjnewest.jpg

Thanks. Seems like there just isn't much to clip to on the tank (your standard garden-variety model) itself, but I'll give it a try.

Clips rawk. Devoured his first mouse last night and is now sleeping it off...

Cool! I am happy to read that.