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What are cool Snake Vivarium Ideas?
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bitsy
Owned by Corns since 1991
Lots of ground cover - baby snakes love to feel hidden. If you use fake plastic foliage they can move around more freely and you might see them out and about more often. Greenery looks great in a viv as well!
Cork bark also makes great hides and looks very naturalistic. Bit of a pain to clean, but lasts for years.
Cork bark also makes great hides and looks very naturalistic. Bit of a pain to clean, but lasts for years.
Theo's Keeper
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The fake plants you get from petstores are really expensive, lik 8-15 dollars for a small one. I got a big decorative fake ivy vine from walmart for 5 bucks and it's huge, goes all the way around my 40 gal, and Theodosia loves it. here's a link to a thread with pics of my setup.
http://www.cornsnakes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=102243&page=3
http://www.cornsnakes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=102243&page=3
Here's a 29 Gallon Tank setup that I have for my Baird's Ratsnake. There's a two-story flat rock cave. The UTH heats the lower level, or if the snake does not want heat, it can hide in the upper level. The plant is a live Pothos. Substrate is a mix of dirt, sand, bark and crushed leaves.
My Russian Rat Snakes are in a 55 Gallon Tank. They destroyed their Pothos plant. There's a cork bark "basking shelf" where they love to hang out early in the year, after coming out of winter cooling. Sunstrate is mulch. Snakes are breeding in picture. With bigger snakes (these are 5 feet long) there's a limit to what you can use as natural decorations, since the snakes are capable of destroying stuff.
I also have two Garter Snake Terrariums. In this one their plant grows in a pot placed in the cage. There is a UTH, but no light, since the tank is near a window. Substrate is a mix of dirt, sand, bark and crushed leaves. You can see a bit of their black, plastic hidebox in the photo.
My Russian Rat Snakes are in a 55 Gallon Tank. They destroyed their Pothos plant. There's a cork bark "basking shelf" where they love to hang out early in the year, after coming out of winter cooling. Sunstrate is mulch. Snakes are breeding in picture. With bigger snakes (these are 5 feet long) there's a limit to what you can use as natural decorations, since the snakes are capable of destroying stuff.
I also have two Garter Snake Terrariums. In this one their plant grows in a pot placed in the cage. There is a UTH, but no light, since the tank is near a window. Substrate is a mix of dirt, sand, bark and crushed leaves. You can see a bit of their black, plastic hidebox in the photo.
bitsy
Owned by Corns since 1991
Large craft retailers are also a good source of cheaper plastic foliage. Find one that sells the gear for making everlasting floral displays with reproduction flowers. Mind out for the ends of the foliage though - the craft ones (as opposed to the pet ones) tend to have wire frames and occasionally sharp ends can stick out.