interesting.

My ball pythons cage has a water bowl and 2 caves, one on the cold and warm side, But there was a bare corner that had nothing in it so i decided to just put a hill of aspen there because it looked better. This morning i woke up and the ball python wasn't anywhere! so i thought about the hill and i stuck my hand in the pile of aspen, and surely it was there! He used the aspen as a cover and loves it and doesn't use the caves anymore! The temperatures are also perfect and same with humidity. Is this a safe thing for the snake? Or.. can the aspen affect its health? Why is it doing this?

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Originally Posted by PythonFan8

My ball pythons cage has a water bowl and 2 caves, one on the cold and warm side, But there was a bare corner that had nothing in it so i decided to just put a hill of aspen there because it looked better. This morning i woke up and the ball python wasn't anywhere! so i thought about the hill and i stuck my hand in the pile of aspen, and surely it was there! He used the aspen as a cover and loves it and doesn't use the caves anymore! The temperatures are also perfect and same with humidity. Is this a safe thing for the snake? Or.. can the aspen affect its health? Why is it doing this?

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Question is if the temps are perfect, are your hides nice and tight touching your BP on all sides

A good hide is a hide where you BP can snug in!

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Originally Posted by GA_Ball_Pythons

Question is if the temps are perfect, are your hides nice and tight touching your BP on all sides

A good hide is a hide where you BP can snug in!

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They are tight caves.

Well if your temps and humidity are bang on and the snake has the choice of two lovely snug hides then maybe it just wanted to go check out the pile of aspen. Sometimes we can and do worry a bit too much about our snakes doing anything "out of the norm". Fact is they are living creatures with a limited but working brain in there. They are going to do things occasionally that make sense to them and none to us. :)

Keep an eye on the situation, as long as the snake is thermoregulating appropriately and your husbandry is dead on...personally I wouldn't particularily worry about it.