March 10th 2015 - Making a new hide

March 10th 2015 - Making anew hide

My bearded dragon is growing!  This is good for him but not for me as the hide I made him from expanding foam when he was a baby is now getting too small and he can only get his head/front into it not all of him.

So I looked on pinterest for ideas to make him a new hide.  There isn't many but as I needed a pin for today I have linked to one of them. 

I had the box my smoke machine came in going in recycling bin, so I decided to use this for his new hide as its big.

I cut out the middle of the box as an arch so he could get in/out of it.

I then covered the inside in expanding foam, making sure that all of the edges and pins that hold the box together were covered.  The expanding foam gives a really bumpy/rock look when its dry.

I'm now waiting for this to fully dry so that I can add a ramp to it and then coat the ramp and the outside with expanding foam so that it all looks like rock.  I will update and add more pics once its done and then it will need to be painted with grey acrylic.