Caught my boas playing beer pong. 
My wife found these for me, and I decided to give them a try. I am using them just to hold Cypress mulch to help keep the humidity in my cages. Makes it easier to clean, and I just add water to the bowl as needed. When they get dirty, I can just throw them out. 30 bowls for $20 that’s pretty cheap. They hold 60oz. if you need water bowls.
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Oh heck yeah, this is awesome Tom. Ill have to give these a try.
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Nice find! Great money saving tip!
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Im getting a box of those!
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They would make great small hides. Holes in the tops or cutouts on the sides! 
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And they sell them on Amazon!
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This is a great find. I’m going to order some. Thanks!
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Oh really! My daughter in law has Amazon prime sooooooo…….
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They come in 3 sizes I believe. The one I posted is the largest.
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I was wondering if they came in smaller sizes! They will be super great because if one is used as a hide and it gets dirty it can just be replaced with a new clean one!
Cheap disposable hides! Yeah! I’m there! 
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I found a new substrate to use for my boas. It’s training leak-proof pads.
I used to use packing paper for all my cages, and I still do for some cages. Paper works fine for cleaning, but I know the boas don’t get any traction from it. And when they urinate or spill their water dish, all the paper gets wet.
This puppy training pad has texture to it so they do get traction. When they urinate, it stays in one spot for the most part. It costs me $40 for 150 pads, so that’s not too bad.
An added plus is that when I get really old, I can use them too.
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We use these kind of pads for when our goats give birth, so yeah, they’re really good at absorbing stuff.
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Here is a cheap hide I have used before. The boas liked it, and after they had pooped or urinated in it, I would just throw it away and replace it with a new one. This way, they always have a clean hide. I know it is not esthetically pleasing. But I like to keep my cages easy to care for. A clean cage is a healthy cage for your boa.
I get having a nice elaborate cage set up with plants, rocks, branches, and nice hides for one or a few reptiles. But when you own 20 or more reptiles, you need to make their caged easy to clean. I have 40 boas right now.
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I used pads like that to line my blood python’s cage for a while (though I put coco husk on top). I really liked them…until the day that she tried to eat one of them. 
Fortunately I was home at the time and saw it happening, so I managed to get it away from her before she actually swallowed it, but that experience has made me wary of using them again.
Hopefully your boas don’t decide to snack on them!
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Thanks good to know. 
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I used them with her for over a year with no problems. I still don’t know why she identified one corner as a tasty snack one day. The only thing I can figure is that maybe her rat came into contact with that spot of the liner while she was swallowing the rat, and it made the liner smell like rat, which made it smell like food to her? 
She was full-on constricting it and starting to swallow it.
I know lots of people use them for their reptiles with no issues, so I think my experience was probably just one of those weird freak incidents.
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