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Custom reptile hides
While i'm happy with the inexpensive and easy to clean plastic hides from reptile basics. I would love to craft some wooden ones for Adina, my baby RTB. While i don't mind researching my questions online,and often i do. With this i would rather have input from a great community. Giving people the chance to express their oppinions and openly critiqe mine :-) Basically i'd like to see some designs that i can build.
My goal is to build numerous reptile hides that meet a few requirments.
1.easy to clean.
2.unique
3.practical for my dear snake.
Wood isn't as easy to clean as plastic and i'd love a few oppinions on the best way to do so. i don't mind spending the extra time cleaning wood vs plastic hides for i enjoy al aspects of keeping my snake.
as far as being creative goes, my mind ends at a simple wooden box wich isn't fun at all.
i want Adina to enjoy her new hides. Whether some of them she's able to climb on or whether some have 2 story compartments doesn't matter to me as long as it's interesting for her.
Also i have maple,walnut,and oak to use as wood.
thankfully i get large ammounts of scraps for free from work. (i build custom furniture) But other wood suggestions would be fine aswell
i have a AP 2'x12"x4' cage incase anyone was wondering.
Excited to see your guys input.
0.1. 2018 Motley Red Tail Boa
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I have 3 of these.
https://www.amazon.com/Exo-Terra-PT2.../dp/B00GVDU41K
Two for a 7 foot boa constrictor and 1 for a 8-9 foot reticulated SD x Dwarf python.
Light and easy to clean.
Here is what it looks like in my setup.
The boa's cage (bottom)
If you are dead set on building hides, give it a go. These are pretty much "plug and play" which made things easy here, plus the naturalistic look fits what I like in a viv.
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Re: Custom reptile hides
I use tortoise hides too for my larger boas and crates are great too
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Re: Custom reptile hides
I wouldn't of thought to use those. They're a great idea. I'll forsure save them in a wish list for Adina. I have a suv full of wood scraps though that i want to build stuff out of vs burning it. I think for one of the hides i'll replicate the tortoise hide. i like the contours it has. thanks for the thought!
0.1. 2018 Motley Red Tail Boa
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Re: Custom reptile hides
Originally Posted by syzygy
I wouldn't of thought to use those. They're a great idea. I'll forsure save them in a wish list for Adina. I have a suv full of wood scraps though that i want to build stuff out of vs burning it. I think for one of the hides i'll replicate the tortoise hide. i like the contours it has. thanks for the thought!
0.1. 2018 Motley Red Tail Boa
If you are talented with wood work and building, give your own ideas a shot.
I'd snowball on that and staple fake plants to the hide you construct to give it a naturalistic look.
The T-shell hides were just to easy for me to pass on so I went that route.
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