Sunday, April 6, 2008

*Squeek* (eat me!)

I noticed that my coasties weren't happy without a proper hide so I did check out some at the pet stores that I went today. I came home without any as I was a cheap ass and thought I could concoct something up that would work just as well. They are in tubs now anyway so having a nice looking hideout (which benefits humans way more than the snake) wouldn't really help make their enclosure into an art gallery. Anyway, one of the snakies seemed a tad flighty and extremely insecure when I tried to feed her out of her tub. I boiled it down to her not having a hide or a dark space to drag the mouse into so I looked around for the quickest alternative. I found the perfect hideout. A Panadeine 100 tabs box. I quickly tipped out the blister packs, sniffed it (I do this with everything before I put them into enclosures to make sure there are no strange chemicals. Might not make sense to some people but it comforts me) and put the new hideout into her enclosure and lo and behold, she climbed right in. I left the fuzzy outside of her enclosure and I didn't have to wait long before she dragged it into her new home. I could always get more medicine packaging from work so replacing will be no problems. This way whenever I change the paper towels from their tubs I could change the hideout too which ensures cleanliness. On a side note, for some reason I defrosted 4 fuzzies instead of 3. I believe I was meant to have one more hatchy, like really soon. :)

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