Baking wood from outside?

[Grrrit]

I live right on the mississippi flood plain and every year I go out after the water recedes
and find all sorts of nice wood. I even cut up root systems off of trees that are uprooted. I bake mine closer to 300 and keep a good eye on it so it doesn't catch fire.

as for the dear, are you talking about the skull. I had a snake viv quite some time back that I used a deer skull in. it was in with a corn snake. I went to the extreem with boiling it and bleaching it. then boiling it again and again. looked great and she even like to "try" and fit inside it. snake did fine and is even still alive and looks great at a friends house. I really wish I had some pictures from that one because it looked incredable

Yes the skull. It is a big 8point buck. And I also thought it would look good with an arboreal snake. Or some sort of climbing lizard. I don't know about frogs in it. I guess we'll just have to see what we've working with once it's done. I'm thinking green vine snake. The rear fanged beauty.

[Eric Walker]

it would look odd if the skull was up in the air in the viv.

I use to keep a pair of ahaetulla prasina ( silver phase, the male was pumpkin orange)
I loved them. I just hated haveing to keep feeding all the anoles crickets, I was not culturing ff at that time and it cost me a but load just to feed the feeders. never the less they were one of my all time snakes I have kepted.

[Grrrit]

If I did use it, I was thinking of submerging most of it, to look as if it was sinking into the ground from age. A bog maybe? Hmm now the clocks are turning

[Eric Walker]

that would be cool looking.

[Froggiestyle]

im a powdercoater in australia do you think doing this in a big oven would be alright or do you think the natual gases get into the wood and then could harm the frogs down the track?

im getting built 60cm long by 50cm wide and 80cm high for giant tree frogs/ white lipped tree frogs and most driftwood around here is only tiny about 30cm long, i would like something that is roughly about 60cm - 70cm in length

[Grrrit]

I've never done it but, I don't see what the difference would be. Baking is baking. I work at a ford plant and we have big ovens, in the paint department where I work. And they get HOT. Fire could be an issue. That's be the only concern I would have.

[Froggiestyle]

yeh its only happened once in our oven but that was because the oven was sitting on 220 degree's when we only bake most stuff at 180 degree's. dont hurt to give it a go as i didnt pay the for wood lol