If you're talking about those half logs you see at pet stores, those aren't proper hides, anyway. If you're talking about the whole logs with just the center cut out so a snake can crawl in there, they're a pain to get your snake out of. Like Vypyrz said, it would be hard to clean poop/pee off a piece of wood. There have been a few times when I've found poop on the side of my BP's hides and had to clean it off.

You should just stick to plastic/resin hides that are easy to clean and easy to get your snake out of.


Quote Originally Posted by smd58 View Post
i would not use wood hides or any wood branches, drift wood in any of my enclouses, if you were to get mites they can get into it lay there eggs and just keep showing up.
That's why you bake the wood in the oven to sterilize it. My BP had a mild case of mites and a piece of driftwood in his cage. I baked the wood in the oven, sprayed a light coating of PAM on it, and haven't seen a mite since.