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[Central Scotland Reptiles]

Almost everyone uses everyday 'household' objects, for the want of a better word, for caring for their charges. I think it would be interesting to see what people use and collect for their animals. ( I hope i am being clear on what i am asking!!! )

For example, my colleagues collect milk bottle tops for me and i use them for feeding baby food to my Day Geckos, no more mess, just use and discard or clean, whichever you prefer!!!

I also use my wife's old tights to stop my Day Geckos escaping during cleaning time. Baffled? Well let me explain, i keep my young day geckos in Pet Pens, i used to run the risk of them escaping every time i cleaned them out. No more!!!! What i do is place the small Pet Pen inside a larger one, i remove the lid of the larger one and stretch a pair of my wife's old, but washed , tights over the top, i cut the legs off, leaving an inch or so from the crotch, now i can put my hands through the holes and open the smaller box. I can see clearly what i am doing and the gecko can't escape outside the larger box. Then all you have to do is shepard the gecko back into its clean tanks once you are finished.

So come on guys, lets see who uses the most obscure object for the most useful task!!!!
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[MJ]

Film canisters
Pringles lids
Turkey baster
Salt shaker
Take out containers

probably a few others
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Paul

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[PaulG]

Egg cartons!
For the insects like the crix and locust.

Also bottle tops for feeding CGD.
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[H.S.]

Milk bottle tops
Plastic Lids from Discovery mix sauces
Plastic dessert lids
Glass Ramikins from GU desserts
Plastic Butter containers
and many more containers and lids.
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[Freyja]

Tupperware containers (for feeding the snakes in), and some for keeping frozen mice/rats in.
Bent dessert spoon (poop scoop) for reaching into the "nursery viv".
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[Lynne]

tupperware containers, for weighing, feeding, damp hides when they need them, if i cant find my feeding tongs i use the frying tongs to feed them( )dont tell anyone. plastic flower pots with a hole cut for hides. for the wee corn hatchlings, any tiny boxes i find lying around get holes cut in them and used for hides.
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[mark_w]

I like this thread!

Various jar lids; yellow sunpat peanut butter lids are great water bowls for geckos...

Large yoghurt pots with plastic lids (Rachels/Yeo Valley?) - you can remove the cardboard and then have a tall clear container - I use these for handling crickets etc.

I always keep and re use cricket boxes.

Can;t think of any more but must be loads...

Mark.

[captainmerkin]

coke bottle lids for calcium..

polystyerene meat boxes

and old human skull I found in my back garden when digging as a cave

[lol93]

various lids
turkey baster
cat litter scoop
seed trays of various sizes for hides
cable ties for attaching things to the sides of vivs etc.
car scraper for cleaning algae off tanks
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[zarozinia]

Cat litter trays or large planters on the bottom of or underneath flexariums to catch water from spraying.
Milk bottle tops, jar tops - for food/water
Baby food jars and ramekins for water bowls.
Milk cartons - instead of little drippers.
Tupperware boxes for incubating eggs.
Hanging clay plant pots for decor and hides
Serving spoon as poop scoop
Bamboo Trellis for arboreal reptiles to climb on
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