BP Climbing

So lately my BP has been climbing around the top of his tank. He is in a 10gal aquarium and it has sort of a lip around the top edge that he keeps getting on, but then he keeps falling down to the ground. I'm a little worried about him. Is the falling going to hurt him?

If it's just a fall from the lip to the substrate in a 10 gallon, I wouldn't be too worried...now if it were a 29 gallon or something taller...maybe.

Do you have a "soft" substrate like aspen? Maybe try one of those bendy branch things you can get to give him more ways up and down?
Short of affixing something to the lip to make it inaccessible, you probably won't get him to stop..."bad snake!" doesn't usually work ;)

My male used to fall off of the upper lip on his Vision Cage. He'd fall at least two or three times a night. He was never injured in any way. I had Cypress Mulch as a substrate

I'm using paper towels as substrate. He usually lands on top of his hides. They're two halves of a tissue box, so they give a little. It just worries me when he falls on the water bowl, or when he falls on his 'humid hide' which is a tupperware with moss in it with no lid on.

I always worried when I used tanks too, they constantly fell.
Switched to tubs, wa la, no more falling snakes :P

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Originally Posted by snakesRkewl

I always worried when I used tanks too, they constantly fell.
Switched to tubs, wa la, no more falling snakes :P

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I am going to switch him to a tub as soon as my corn is QT'd actually. She is in a 35qt tub and I like the tub so much that I'm switching him over! But right now, It's a little too cool downstairs for him to be in a tub as he needs his heat lamp for ambient temps, but as soon as I can move him upstairs where my corn is, he'll be going into a tub. I live in a loft apartment that doesn't have separate rooms, so it makes it difficult to QT.

You can try stuffing spongy foam material into the gaps so he cannot climb and wedge himself in those spaces.
It'll definitely put your mind at ease.

Mine did this as well and i found it only happened when she was hungry

My BP only ever does this the night before and the day of feeding, maybe feed him a bigger rat or more mice?