I think she likes her hide a little too much.

We have a Ball Python who's going on 11 months of age and she still won't stop using her first hide. She's grown quite a bit since we've gotten her as a hatchling and have upgraded and upsized every part of her housing (New tanks, water dishes, hides, beddings, etc. etc.) but she refuses to use another hide. Every time we try and change it, after a few hours she throws a hissy fit and starts acting aggressively to the point of biting. This hide is so small for her now that she almost wears it like a hat, lifting it off the ground when she's inside it, full body.

http://i.imgur.com/qk0QV1L.jpg
(sorry for the bad quality, this is a bad cellphone camera.)

Any Tips?

So you have tried the larger version of that hide, and they didn't work?

Maybe you should just leave her be, when she gets way too big for it, I'm sure she'll give it up.

That's right, we have one of her old tanks filled with other bigger hides we've tried.

Different Phone, crappier picture but here's what I was talking about.

http://i.imgur.com/AUPfqpE.jpg

My little pied girl is the same. She has outgrown her little blue bowl but she just loves it. She pushes all the aspen out of it and wears it like a hat on the floor of her tank half on and half off the UTH. She seems happy about it so I just let her be lol. I'll probably upgrade her to a medium RBI or Bean Farm hide in a little while but atm she likes to wear her blue bowl like a hat or sometimes like a turtle shell on her body with her head poking out thinking a rat is coming every time I walk by the front of the cage.

Lol I got that same ExoTerra hide in her cage too. She sits in it sometimes after eating but always goes back to the blue bowl.

If she's too big for it and it's starting to sit on top of her and it's moving when she moves, then just take the hide out and put the next hide size up in there and give her time to get used to it.


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My 11 month BP also outgrew his hide and was lifting it off the ground, but I had used a larger hide previously and he has not had a problem moving into the larger one full time.

http://jkrballstreetjournal.com/2014...-eating-again/

This is a very interesting and informative article and while it's about problem feeders has good information about BP behaviour. I offer similar advice for you:
After the next shed/poop cycle, clean the enclosure, clean the snake, and switch up the hide at that time.

Thank you for the article!

That's so cute :)


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