Do you use hides?

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Originally Posted by demjor19

I use hides for some and not others...

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Is there a reason why you don't use hides for some of yours?

I only give hides to picky eaters and since I only have 1 picky eater right now, only 1 hide, lol.
If mine want to hide they go under the paper towel :)

I use hides on my little ones but once they outgrow it then I stop using it as a rack is pretty closed in. I would only give my adults a hide if they did not eat for me. So far, I have not had a problem with the adults not eating! It is really just a personal choice! Some use, some don't!

I only give the young bps hides. My breeders are in tubs that are almost 3 feet long with no hides, just paper bedding. I've had no issues with them eating/breeding. If they had a hide in there I would worry that the girls wouldn't thermoregulate like they need to. Not saying they won't, it would just be added stress for me that is easily remedied.

Another vote for hides except when breeding. I use packing paper as "substrate", and my guys tend to burrow under it and try to make their own hides if I don't provide any. So I figure, if it really makes 'em that happy, they can have a cardboard tube or a tupperware container to call their very own.

But not for breeding. Sometimes they find a way to lock in the hide, but mostly it seems to get in the way.

Some get hides, some don't. All my snakes start off with no hides, I see if they eat and how they act. after a few refusals or just seeming stressed, I will give them a hide or do what I need to do. After they eat a couple times I will pull the hide again, if they refuse after that I just leave it in there.

I also just recently had my jag carpet python (has a similar looking issue as the spider) which once she started breeding the wobble started showing worse and worse, so I gave her a hide and she calmed down a little bit, she never had a hide since I owned her before that.

so basically I observe my snakes and go from there.

I give all my animals hides for the most part. Even my geckos. They seem to use and enjoy them often and I don't mind cleaning the extra cage furniture.

No hides. Even my boas in 4x2 cages don't have hides. They go under the newspaper or papertowels if they hide. My bp rack is 3/4 enclosed so it probably does help them feel like there hiding all the time.

Hi,

we use hides/wetboxes. 2 in 1 :)
Most of the balls like them,... Even if they are not shedding they are inside.

I am not breeding at least this year anyway, I have 2 hides for my shy girl and one from my shy boy The others don't have any as far as that goes my big female will not fit in a normal hide she would need a wash basin and it won't fit in the tub too tall.