Enclosure closure brainstorm

[Scherdy]

I’m a new mantis keeper and was modifying this container from the dollar store for my new nymph.  I was going to hot glue some fine mesh for the vent holes but adding something to secure the lid has me trying to come up with a solution. 
 

The kid fits just barely tight enough to make me worry about it staying in.  So my first thought was adding a couple small rare earth magnets set in some epoxy putty to hold it but the more I think about how hard it can be to wrangle my new pals while putting the lid on the more I worry about those magnets snapping together on a foot, leg or worse. 
 

I was hoping to get input from you creative problem solver types of what you think might work best. 
 

thanks!

 

[hibiscusmile]

I use what that stuff called? now I can't think of the name. But it is...and it's gonna come to me... wait a minute... velcro? where you have a soft piece and a rough piece and I glue the one on and glue the other to a ribbon and glue it on to pull it tight, u know what I mean?

 

[Scherdy]

Perfect!  Thank you I was feeling so dumb not coming up with something that was usable and didn’t want to junk the project. 

 

[hibiscusmile]

no two heads are better than one.