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    sliding doors

    I've been looking at some of your set-ups and I noticed that many of you have vivaria with sliding doors.
    I have those for my lizards, but I'd been concerned with smaller snalkes hanging out in the rail part, or even somehow squeezing through the overlap.
    Has anything like that happened to anyone?
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    Re: sliding doors

    I've heard stories about snakes doing that (including juvenile ball pythons), but it has never happened to me.

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    Re: sliding doors

    I've been using paired sliding doors for ever and I've never had a snake squeeze between them, but then I don't house juveniles in that type of viv.
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    Re: sliding doors

    I had the problem once. Fixed it by putting something between the glasses, so it couldn't pass anymore. This was a baby of a few weeks, so very small. So you've always hav to be carefull with babies...

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    Re: sliding doors

    I can keep babies elsewhere (not that I have any right now)
    It also occurred to me earlier that I can use airline tubing to plug the inside rail and just mostly use the door that slides on the outside rail.
    Airline tubing works well around the top of the tank when a screen top is not a good fit.
    It might even work in the overlap although that may be tricky.
    What did you use?
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    Re: sliding doors

    We also had this problem, especialy with babies from ribbons. They crawl up between the overhanging part and then they are on the glass in the rail part. The problem is you don't see them, but you notice they're there. But lucky we never had any damage to a garter by that.

    Now we use some kind of brush-thing on every slidingdoor.
    By placing this on the behind glass (b), the front glass (a) will slide directly alongside the brush, so there is nolonger a gap and the babies can not crawl up anymore.


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    Re: sliding doors

    Those brushes are a great idea. Are they self-adhesive?
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    Re: sliding doors

    Quote Originally Posted by adamanteus View Post
    Those brushes are a great idea. Are they self-adhesive?
    Yes very handy

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    Re: sliding doors

    I'm going to use it on my new vivs. It would stop anything getting out, even crickets if you were keeping insectivorous lizards. Thanks for the tip!
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    Re: sliding doors

    It works really good. We also use this on our paludarium (?) with phyllobates bicolors (poison frogs) and they eat tiny flies.........

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