May not be the best or most efficient way, but here is how I do Donuts' tub. I removed some flowers for the sake of showing the layout.
Flower bunches from the dollar store: $1 each is a great deal more economical than pet shop feauxliage (I just made that up! It's probably a thing already but I'm proud haha). Ignore the acurite readings, it obviously has some problems /: The other thermometer/hygrometer is under the darker pink flowers.
Here is how I keep them up off the ground and away from being dragged into the water bowl:
She only really climbed on them when I first gave them to her. They held up! They're even kind of hard to take out lol. I remove one or two before feeding so she has room to strike. They get washed weekly. I had leafy bunches but washing them kept making them lose leaves.
My hides aren't very fancy but she seems to love them. Not the prettiest but really easy to maintain- just throw them out whenever they get damp/soiled. And basically free since they're all from food I eat. The pic above, she's in a Raisin Bran box, cut to be shallow.
This was from her younger days. She loved the tube kind of feel to single-sleeve cracker boxes. Now she's just too big for them.
She seems pretty happy with her setup. She always has two different hides on each hot and cold side, so she can make the choice of where she wants to be without compromising either security or temperature.
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