What are your favorite hides and why?

[Musoke]

I have a few hides for Elliot- he uses them all quite often!

I have a log bridge, a cave, and a cubby.

Here's how the cubby works, I made it out of glazed and fired clay.
Cardboard boxes might work too? I guess if you replace it now and then.

I have to take the stuff out and reset it every now and then because when he's busy he digs everything up and moves it all around... he's opinionated.

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All fixed up:



And his under his bridge. I found this in a rodent pet section! It's for guinea pigs, but Elliot likes to dig under and climb over it.





(If you look closely, you can see he dragged one of his hygrometers in there... )

[missmacabre]

I use the Large or it might be exra large, exo terra cave. Onyxia loves it. Before that I used an icecream container and he was pretty happy with that too

[MissMeg]

LOL Musoke
I love how in your first big pic, you can see your puppy in the reflection. or the other side of the tank. The look on his/her face is cute!

**Offtopic sorry**

[Musoke]

LOL Musoke
I love how in your first big pic, you can see your puppy in the reflection. or the other side of the tank. The look on his/her face is cute!

**Offtopic sorry**

Heheh that's one of my dogs, Beau.
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There's the two of them! The one on the right is Bonnie.

*okay done being off topic*

[WeatherMan_Tom]

I have this turtle shell hide that felix loves. mainly because I've noticed that the mouth of it it narrow enough that he feels completely secluded under it but inside has enough space to wrap his body around the shells circumference. pretty cool little hide for a bts.

http://www.petsmart.com/product/index.j ... 37.2769284

[Adalon]

As unnatural as it looks, flat cardboard boxes have been the favorite hide so far and haven't had any adverse effect other than just looking out of place. I think I could make something more natural looking with a little work, but if a free cardboard box that takes 3 minutes to shape does the exact same thing and Adalon enjoys it, it's not a real top priority. It's just the right height that an old pillow case set in the middle provides a step to get on top of the box while still being sturdy and safe. I wet the cloth around shed times and use an UTH on cold nights to warm up the tile underneath so the hide works wonderfully for that.

It does make me jealous seeing everyone's excellent enclosures while mine has that eyesore.

[xxmonitorlizardxx]

As unnatural as it looks, flat cardboard boxes have been the favorite hide so far and haven't had any adverse effect other than just looking out of place. I think I could make something more natural looking with a little work, but if a free cardboard box that takes 3 minutes to shape does the exact same thing and Adalon enjoys it, it's not a real top priority. It's just the right height that an old pillow case set in the middle provides a step to get on top of the box while still being sturdy and safe. I wet the cloth around shed times and use an UTH on cold nights to warm up the tile underneath so the hide works wonderfully for that.

It does make me jealous seeing everyone's excellent enclosures while mine has that eyesore.

Adalons pattern is forming nicely

[Zach]

I tend to lift all basking rocks with various items to create a hide underneath. The basking rock is already taking up space, so to "double duty" the space is a swell idea -- particularly if you don't have space to spare.

Funny you mention this, thinking about this thread inspired me to go to Home Depot and get enough tiles to make everyone raised water dish spaces with room for the skinks underneath - I was putting the water dishes on a tile or two anyways to prevent them tracking substrate in, so it was silly not to raise it a bit more to add another hide. I got a bunch of 12" x 12" slate tiles ($20 for 12 of them) and a bunch of 3" x 3" square tiles and siliconed 5-6 of the square tiles in a stack and used those stacks to form the 'legs'. So for about $50, 7 lizards got an extra hide with extra supplies left over!

Ooooh, we've got to see pictures of that!