The girls have a new home...

[EasternGirl]

I got an early Christmas present!!! My mother chipped in and gave me money toward a new enclosure for Selena and Cee Cee...it has sliding glass doors in the front...is 30 gallon...and after a long day of working on it to make sure that there would be no escaping and no injuries...the girls have a beautiful new home (and Hermes has their old tank with a lock-lid so that he won't escape;))...

3411 And here are the girls watching the Christmas tree lights... 3412

[guidofatherof5]

Looks good.

[EasternGirl]

I ended up having to do a lot of work on it...lots of tape and stopping of holes and such...Cee Cee of course immediately went to work looking for any little space she could find to get through...but I think I was pretty thorough...she even surprised me by getting up to the top of the tank!!! Oh...and when I first put her in it she flipped out and lunged at me from across the tank...lol!

[BUSHSNAKE]

thats nice, i would like to have all my stuff in something like that

[infernalis]

Great looking Viv...

[EasternGirl]

I just wish that whoever made reptile habitats understood reptiles better...especially garters...whoever makes the lids on these things does not understand snakes and escape tactics...every enclosure I have had, I have had to rig so that the snakes can't escape or get injured...perhaps I should start designing reptile habitats...maybe that is my cha...ching!

[kibakiba]

Careful with the tape, a garter can easily get stuck on it. It can pull their scales and tongues off.

[guidofatherof5]

Careful with the tape, a garter can easily get stuck on it. It can pull their scales and tongues off.

Good advice Chantel.

[infernalis]

.Most of those enclosures are made for larger snakes than Garters.

We are still second class citizens

[ConcinusMan]

I ended up having to do a lot of work on it...lots of tape

Oh no, you didn't.:eek:

[EasternGirl]

Okay...ha ha...I made sure the tape was tucked up and around good so that they couldn't get stuck to it...I actually thought about them sticking to it. I put wax pieces in the little gaps in the top of the lid on the corners. Superglued a plug into a hole that is made for a cord...there were a lot of little places that small snakes could get through. Like Wayne said...we're still second class citizens I guess....

[ConcinusMan]

Okay...ha ha...I made sure the tape was tucked up and around good so that they couldn't get stuck to it...

Yeah, so did I. Still lost a snake by using tape. The problem is, it rarely stays put, and the snakes always seem to find a way to get stuck to it, however impossible it may seem.

[EasternGirl]

You mean a snake died? I'm not sure what else to do...I had to block off spots that they could get in and get hurt...

[katach]

Tape is bad, very bad!

[tress29]

Hot glue?

[ConcinusMan]

I did notice those tanks aren't really suitable for tiny snakes. Like you're saying, too many gaps they can squeeze through.

[EasternGirl]

Okay...all of the tape is off...talked to Steve on skype for a while...figured out how to deal with the gaps without tape...crisis averted...thanks everyone for the concern.

[ConcinusMan]

Good. And no, the snake didn't die. Worse. I found her hopelessly stuck, exhausted and dehydrated almost to the point of death. Even her tongue was stuck to the tape. I couldn't free her without literally ripping her scales and tongue off, so I had to euthanize. I was soooo sure she couldn't get to that tape. It was a hard lesson.

[BUSHSNAKE]

thats a hard one Richard, i bet you felt like poo

[ConcinusMan]

Yeah. For sure. To make matters worse, I loved that snake like you would love your own child, and my only option was quick action with a sharp pair of pruning shears.:(

[EasternGirl]

Oh God...Well...Oh God...I'm so sorry...Well...the tape is all off and if you follow my other thread the girls are now happily having lesbian snake sex so all is good...lol.

[BUSHSNAKE]

woohoo! lesbian sex

[EasternGirl]

Yeah...I'm not so sure...I think I'm going to have a bunch of babies....

[infernalis]

Oh nevermind... to much opportunity for me to be naughty.

[EasternGirl]

;)