New Toy

[katach]

My husband made this and the snakes LOVE it!!! He used wooden dowels, zip ties, and the leather from a chamois he cut into pieces. :)

[d_virginiana]

Very neat :)

[katach]

Thanks!!

[guidofatherof5]

A Thamnophis jungle gym. Nice;)

[katach]

Yeah they sure love it. They all up there right now.

[Starling96]

nice!
could we get you to give us the directions to make those? :)

[katach]

As soon as my hubby get home from taking the kids to the park. I'll ask him to write it out and I'll post it. :)

[Starling96]

thank you much!

[RdubSnider]

Are you trying to spoil those garters? Lol. Pretty cool

[katach]

Maybe just a little.... :o I just wish we had a bigger tank for them.

[Cfleming]

Very cool. I made a "jungle gym" out of PVC for my garters. They love it. I have also made similar structures to yours in the past for other species of snakes. It is a cheap and effective way to give them more "space".

[RedSidedSPR]

That's pretty darn cool. Snake hammock.

[katach]

Thanks!. My hubby is still going to write out the instructions on making it. I'll post it when he does.

[Starling96]

looking forward :P

[Mommy2many]

A Thamnophis jungle gym. Nice;)


That's exactly what I was gonna say, except I wasn't gonna be sssspecific. I was gonna use the universally accepted scientific term: "snakie" jungle gym:D

[katach]

OK all here it is.
Supplies:
1 Leather Chamois
26 zip ties or string
1 3in wooden dowel
4 6in wooden dowels
4 12in wooden dowels

Assembly:
Make a rectangle with 2 6in wooden dowels and 2 12in wooden dowels. Place the 3 in wooden dowel in the middle of the rectangle and zip tie or tie it in place. It should look like an hourglass. Attach to one end the remaining 12in wooden dowels and the remaining 6in wooden dowels to the other. Bill used 5 zip ties per corner, 3 to make the rectangle and another 2 to attach the legs, the center uses 3 zip ties per side. This may be easier to do with string, but we had zip ties.
To cover the joints cut a dry leather chamois in to long strips. Dip the strips in water. Wrap the center joints with one strip. Moving back and forth and the tie it off. Do the same with the end joints. Then twist a strip along the the hourglass shape to look like a zig-zag pattern. As the leather drys it will shrink everything tightly together.

I know this may be king of confusing, but try to get an engineer to explain something that makes sense to anyone else...

If you get stuck, I'd be happy to try and answer questions.

[Starling96]

I mad something similar but out of sticks :D

[katach]

Picture??... I love to see other peoples snake toys. :)

[Starling96]

I will later on tonight I'm not home

[katach]

Cool! I'm looking forward to seeing it!!

[RedSidedSPR]

Me too.

[Starling96]

ill be home around 10 pm
and righ now its 7:20 for me lol

[chris-uk]

Thought I'd dig up this old thread because it's inspired me. A lot of years ago when I was a Scout I was particularly adept at tying knots and pioneering. I used to make models using peasticks. So I decided I'm going to scale up slightly, because peasticks won't take a good snake weight, and build some platforms and rope bridges and things for our girls to play on. I need to remember how I used to do the parabolic pioneering designs because I think they'd make great hammocks.
I'll create a thread for it when I start building.

[katach]

I'm glad Bill creativity has inspired you. He loves to build and create things.

[EasternGirl]

I'm still thinking about getting some habitrail pieces and putting them together for my snakes. Another member had mentioned it on here before...I'm not particularly good at building things but I thought it would be neat for them to play in.

[kibakiba]

My mom wanted to use habitrails for the snakes, and make a business out of it, making our own stuff designed for snakes instead of rodents.While it's a cool business idea, I don't think many people would buy it if that ever happened.

[EasternGirl]

Yeah..very cool idea...but I know what you mean. I thought about designing enclosures that were better designed for garters...with lids and so forth that had smaller snakes in mind in terms of being escape proof and safe...but then I thought, honestly, how big would my market be? I probably wouldn't even make enough money to cover the costs involved in making the enclosures. It's unfortunate.

[Selkielass]

I've been thinking of a habitrail type set-up connecting an upland/ dry tank to a humid/swampy/marshy tank so the snakes can pick from several humidity/temperature/ acidity areas.

[EasternGirl]

That would be very cool...if you do that, you must post pics.

[Light of Dae]

A friend of mines friend lol Had a huge python and didn't like that he just sat in a tank all day so he cut holes in the tank and made a pipe system that ran along the ceiling with clear sections and dark sections and he cut holes in his walls to make it go from room to room. He also had multiple access doors where he would introduce a bunny or a guinea pig or a few rats etc. lol I saw pictures of this set up, it was huge! Like a GIANT habitrail system! Big snake too! about 7ft long. He had braces attached to the ceiling studs to keep the heavy snake from falling with the pipes. He used a mix of black pvc pipes and clear plexi glass. Was neat to see.


Btw Katach I love that .. lol new toy. I'll have to make something like that, I've got a bag of rawhide ties sitting around here somewhere... lol