The heat and humidity is fine in the RUB. She is very new and does not seem to like being handled. However, today I gave her a taste of freedom by letting her explore my room under close supervision. She seemed to enjoy cruising around, and I let her come out of her RUB naturally (rather than have her recoil when I picked her up). However, after chilling in her hide for a little while, she has been consistently trying to escape/testing out the RUB. Now I am thinking she was actually stressed out by leaving her home, despite wanting to come out naturally?

It is late at night (about 12) and I know they are active then, but it seems like she is trying to escape. Is it possible that snakes might display this behaviour if their RUB is too small? She fits in it nicely, but lengthwise she is too long to stretch out and her measurements indicate that it might be time to move her into the vivarium. However, she did eat fine in the RUB a few days ago, despite being new, so I am confused. My local rat supplier suggested to leave her in the box for another feed or two, then move her to the vivarium after that.

Any advice? Thanks.