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Popsicle sticks and hot glue
Posted: Sun May 01, 2016 3:02 pm
by hermitcrab29
Recently, I've gotten into making Popsicle stick crafts with nontoxic hot glue for our hamster, and I was wondering if it would be okay to do the same thing for my crabbies. Thanks!

Re: Popsicle sticks and hot glue
Posted: Sun May 01, 2016 4:46 pm
by Crabinski
I've used popsicle sticks and hot glue to make MES (Mouse Entertainment Systems

) for years but the combo won't work very well in a crabitat due to the heat and humidity. The hot glue will deteriorate and the popsicle sticks will get spongy pretty quickly.
Re: Popsicle sticks and hot glue
Posted: Sun May 01, 2016 4:49 pm
by hermitcrab29
Crabinski wrote:I've used popsicle sticks and hot glue to make MES (Mouse Entertainment Systems

) for years but the combo won't work very well in a crabitat due to the heat and humidity. The hot glue will deteriorate and the popsicle sticks will get spongy pretty quickly.
Thanks. And I know what it's like :] I have 100 things for my hamster

Re: Popsicle sticks and hot glue
Posted: Mon May 02, 2016 8:33 pm
by emceedi
I can confirm what Crabinski said. I recently hot glued some popsicle sticks to my plastic water dishes. I wanted to be able to stake the dishes into the substrate because my crabs keep dumping the water out! It worked great for a little while, but soon the glue came off for some of them and the others strarted to rot. Back to the drawing board!