BP staying on the cold side

Hello. I am still considered a newbie in the ball python world but I am concerned with the behavior of one of my snakes. He is a 1,000 gram male and he keeps staying on the cold side of his tank. He has hide holes and water on both sides of his tank. I am using a heating pad and thermostat set at 90 degrees. The other snake is hooked to the same thermostat and she is doing fine using both sides of the tank. What really concerned me is we took him out of the to handle him yesterday and he felt so cold. It took about 15 minutes under my wifes robe until he finally started moving around. When I put him back, I put him on the warm side and he immediately went in his hide hole on the cool side.

Should I be concerned? We keep our house at 70 degrees.

Thanks for any help

Some snakes are weird. My ball python does this too. One possibility is that if you have different types of hides on the warm and cold side he may like the hide on the cold side. You could try switching the hides to see if it makes a difference. Otherwise I don't know too much about what you can do about it.
If anyone else knows what might be going on I'd like to know too.

Thanks. I will try changing the hides. Any other thought out there?

Recheck his warm side temp with a temp gun or something and make sure it's at the right heat. Or try to lower it as it may be trying to find a middle ground between the hot and cool side but can't.

As long as the cold side has a temperature of around 80 it should be fine, he has access to both sides, if he gets too cold he will relocate. Start to worry if he begins to show any issues with his health.

Changing the hide holes worked!! Thanks

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Originally Posted by taxman0720

Changing the hide holes worked!! Thanks

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Great! :gj: Sometimes Bps can be silly like that.