BP NEVER comes out of his PVC???

Hello, my BP never comes out of his PVC hide. I mean NEVER! i stay awake till about 3 AM every day and never see him out of his PVC. Is this a problem? my temps are 95 basking about 87 ambient. Is this NORMAL? i hope so! thanks!

Hi,

Is this PVC hide on the cool end or the hot end or both?

How is he eating?


dr del

i asked the same question yesterday lol, the response i got was "a hiding bp is a happy bp" :)

hope that helps

Temps sound slightly too warm to me, drop it down 2 or 3 degrees on both ends...

I have a BP that only leaves his hide to drink, and that is only once or twice a week, if he comes out more than that I never see him do it. He was a rescue , and the people I got him from had him in a empty cage with no substrate or hide, and they had had him for about a year and a half, he was skinny and cold when I picked him up, once he was in a nice enclosure with cypress mulch and a nice hide, he never left his cave, lol.

87 ambient is quite warm so is the hot end especially if your thermometer is not well calibrated (factory tolerances are 2 degrees of correct up or down for 90% on the market. it is in the spec sheet)

I typically don't like seeing over 92 hot end and ambient temps in 80-85 with a cool end surface of 80.

I do not believe a constant hiding royal is normal. Is the snake shedding? Feeding? how long has it be doing this? Is it new to you?

Typically a snake will have a bit of their head out every now and again mine typically will spend 2 or 3 nights for a few or more hours hanging their heads out of the hides and most will actually come out once or twice a week for a patrol of the enclosure. Some shy snakes will just stick out a bit of their heads and will snap them back quickly so it is sometimes hard to catch.

There is a balance needed here. Always hiding can be stress related, always out can be stress related. It gets hard to sort out.

I usually look to heat related stress in both cases a hugging a cool end hide can be trying to cool down but with a high ambient temp it may not be possible. A low temp the reverse is true hugging a hot side hide.

Where is yours hot or cool? Are you measuring the hide temps or outside the hides?