Hiding ball python

I got him 6 days ago and I'm happy he been hiding alot and only cruising at night. I just find it funny and wanted to see if anyone has the same problem I do, well its not a problem but how I setup my tank it has alot of hiding places and sometimes takes me awhile to figure out where he is and sometimes hidden so good I think he escaped, so I was wondering if your snake have ever hid so well you thought it got out

It's perfectly normal. Ball Pythons are very secretive snakes. A hiding Ball Python is a happy Ball Python. Awesome pets, but not great display snakes.

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I was wondering if your snake have ever hid so well you thought it got out

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Once I had my first BP in a plastic display enclosure with sliding glass on the front. One night he crawled up on the thin ledge above the glass sliding door and I looked in and thought he had escaped and looked all around the snake room for a good hour before glancing over at the tank and seeing his head peaking down from the ledge and looking at me. Had a look on his face like "HA I got you!" Could NOT believe it.

that's funny, they are great at hiding. Anyone else have any stories

Today is the first day ours has stayed in its hide, I figure that means we are on the right track. Of course now I don't get to see all my efforts pay off, at least for the moment. It has got to feel better than it did a week ago.

When I first built my rack I used aspen in my tubs and I didn't use hides. My spider blends in very well with the aspen so for the first week or so I used to panic whenever I opened his tub because I couldn't see him. He would burrow into the aspen. :P

It's a ball python that's what they do I would worry if it was any different.

It is funny you ask this two weeks ago one of mine found a new place. She has lots of plants and such but is always in one of her hides. One morning when I was checking on mine I didn't see her in her hide I use locked enclosures (by law here says secure, so taking it to beyond doubt, locks) So I wondered what had happened. A moment of did she escape when I changed water the day before... but then I noticed her behind a plant on top of the hygrometer. How she stayd there I can't fathom. When I found her and looked at her she calmly climbed down and entered her hide. :P hide and seek snakey style.

Heh, yea I am in the middle of building a custom top for the tank that I have for my BP, one that will keep in more humidity. I did not think that he was big enough to climb over the top, so I have just had the top off for the past couple of days. I went to check on him one day before leaving to go to a friend's house. Couldn't find him anywhere. Check my room because sometimes I will leave him out so he can crawl around, I actually brought extra hides and stuck them in pretty much the only two places he can actually get to, one under my bed and one under the 90 gallon tank for my RTB. The underside of the 90 gal actually has an extra CHE so that he has a hot hide in the room and a cooler hide under the bed. For all intent and purposes, the entire room is a habitat that stays between 77-82 degrees! Anywho, checked all around and could not find him but I needed to leave. After about an hour of searching, still nothing. I left home and told my family to keep an eye out for him. Get home that night, still nobody had seen him. I was beginning to really worry. I checked under every piece of furniture upstairs and downstairs, still nothing. I went to bed that night and could barely sleep I was so worried. I woke up the next morning, searched under everything and as I glance at his tank, I see him looking at me from BEHIND HIS TANK! Apparently there was enough room for him to stuff himself back there and was so comfortable, he did not feel like moving! I stand there with my hands on my hips shaking my head at him as he crawls out and up to my feet and tries to climb up my legs! ::sigh:: So hard to stay mad at him :snake:!

Well it was my BPs first shed (about 2 weeks ago) So I decided to leave him alone and let him do his snakey thing and shed. It was the day I was supposed to feed him and I wanted to check on his shedding progress. I picked up his hot side hide and he wasn't there. I picked up his cool side hide and he wasn't there. I got scared and started looking around the room for him. After about an hour I decided to grab a mouse to defrost and put it outside his cage. After about 15 mins (the time it takes to defrost) I noticed him slithering out from under his water bowl! Turns out his water bowl had an open space around the area the water goes in. He still does it but and I don't mind but doesn't go in his other hides anymore and isn't as active as before.