food bowls

[katach]

We use a little 3in flower pot coaster, 99¢ at Joann Fabric. They have an even smaller one for 79¢. It works very well, and very cheap to replace.

[guidofatherof5]

I buy ceramic plant coasters at Walmart at the end of the season.
The ceramic material makes them easy to clean and the heavier weight keeps the snake from getting under them.

[Didymus20X6]

They can also be converted easily into hides for small snakes - just turn them upside down.

Or reach for the actual flower pots right next to them

[d_virginiana]

My snakes have lovely (IMO), handcrafted hides... And whenever a flat, plastic lid gets put into their container, they immediately think they're in heaven and crawl up under it. Even if all they can fit under it is their head.

And after they crawl under the lid and knock their food into the substrate, they get angry because the humans are poking around their new hiding spot grabbing bits of mouse out of the dirt.

[kibakiba]

Derpy used to have a little log with 2 holes that connected and he would sleep in it as a baby... Once he started growing, the only thing he could fit was the first 1/4th of his body... even though he tried cramming himself in there. He'd try putting his head in first, and sometimes he tried going tail in first. Poor little guys.. Haha.