- Save your tortoise’s gravel
Don’t throw away the gravel or aggregate in your tortoise’s bowl every time you clean it. Dump the gravel, aggregate and any other bowl materials into a colander. Place the colander over a bucket and pour water over the contents until the gravel is clean. Next, pour household bleach over everything. Finally, run water over the contents of the colander until the smell of bleach has completely gone.
- A lost snake
It’s easy to lose a snake, but don’t panic. Here are two good ways to find your missing pet:
- Place foil or crinkly plastic packing material around the room in potential hiding places, so you can hear the snake moving around.
- Sprinkle some flour on the floor in areas where you suspect your pet might be hiding.
- Bring the outdoors in for a pet lizard
Your pet lizard will enjoy having fresh small tree branches in his cage. Lizards like to climb and hang out on the branches that you can collect from the garden.
- Lazy lizards
Caged lizards like to relax, so make your pet a little hammock. String a section of old pillowcase or a bandana between two corners of the cage and you will soon see your lizard resting comfortably in his new piece of furniture.
- A reptile cage catch-all
Keep the area around a reptile’s cage neat by placing an old plastic shower curtain or plastic tablecloth beneath the cage. When it’s time to tidy up, bundle up the plastic liner, brush sand or crumbs or any other bits of rubbish into the bin and then wipe the liner with a sponge before returning it to its original spot.