Learn how to create a DIY snake hide that looks natural and helps maintain the right humidity levels. Follow our step-by-step guide to use loofah and a glue gun, ensuring your snake’s enclosure is both functional and aesthetically pleasing.
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DIY Snake Hide Using PVC and Luffa
Project Supplies
- PVC pipe, a size of your choosing. Make sure it’s big enough for your snake. I went WAY larger than I needed to.
- Luffa
- Ryobi Glue Gun https://homedepot.sjv.io/yRDB7y … a word on this. THE BEST glue gun I’ve ever owned hands down. It’s wireless which is so helpful. It doesn’t tip over. I won’t even bother with other glue guns anymore. My only issue is my family not returning the batteries to their charging station and having to hunt down a battery (I’ve solved this by hiding a charger and a battery in my office).
- Twine: Any twine or string will work… you could also use elastics.
Step by Step Instructions
Step 1: Clean your PVC pipe and ensure it’s dry.
Step 2: Cut open your dry luffa. Sort your pieces by size.
I did this whole project in a different order, but I’d going to recommend you do it in a more ideal order… ADHD problems. Do as a I say, not as I messed up. Haha.
Step 3: Use hot glue to attach luffa to the interior of your PVC, if desired. You could leave this bare, but I’m hoping it will be a nice place for my snake to rest when she’s shedding and that she can scratch off excess skin if needed. I used some scissors to press the luffa into the PVC so it would stick flat – without burning my fingers.
Step 4: Once your interior is complete, use smaller pieces of PVC to glue and wrap around the edges of the tube. I used binder clips to hold them on while they dried.
Step 5: Now you can use large luffa pieces to wrap around your tube, gluing them in place. I used twine to hold it in place… you could potentially skip the hot glue and keep twine on there permanently to hold it on, but I wanted it to look natural as possible.
Once everything is cool to the touch, you can spray your hide down (I probably wouldn’t let it soak for fear the hot glue would come off) or pour water over it like I did.
Then you can put it in the enclosure and your snake can ignore it for the sky hide you installed for her like mine did. I need to glue some luffa in there too. Haha.
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