My snakes hides are see thru. They are colored so it's not easy to see thru them but you can if you work a little. Doesn't seem to bother them a bit. Nina actually seems to prefer them. When I switched over, I left the old hides in for a while to see which ones got used more. Necco used all of them and Nina seemed to prefer the see thru ones. (of course my snakes may be weird)