Just took these pics to show examples:

This is what we use for snakes from about 100 grams until they can't fit in the doorway with a full belly anymore or they turtle the hide (it raises up off the floor when they curl up in there). These are untreated terracotta planter saucers from WalMart for about $1.00. The plastic ones are better though and as soon as I can get some I'm switching over. These terracotta ones break easily when chipping out the doorway (and you have to sand the edges too). The baby snakes do love them though and use the flat roof a lot.


This is what we use for snakes from about 400 grams to around 1,000 grams or so. It's just a plastic bowl from the dollar store. You get 2 or 3 in a pack for a buck. These are super nice, dark, easy to clean and the snakes seem to love them. You can put the entrance in the side like this or in the roof with a circular drill bit.


Our adult hides. Just a very heavy rubber dog dish from the local farm supply store (costs around $4.00). Hard as heck to cut an entrance in though, we had to use heavy wire cutters on the thick rubber but they last forever, the snakes love the darkness and the flat roof and you just can't destroy these things. Side benefit is even the biggest females have a hard time dragging these suckers around. The rubber construction seems to help them "stick" even to newspaper so they don't shift around as easily as hard plastic hides. They seem to fit our snakes from about 1,000 grams to around 2,000 grams when the females just get too fat to fit inside anymore.


Hope these examples helped.