Training a snake?

[neocatlove(disabled)]

I know someone already laughed
but honestly my snake keeps going up onto her hydrometer and it isn't safe for her! she is going to be too big and rip it off and hurt herself she stopped going onto her temperature measurer thingie because she fell too many times and i secured it better but i don't think i can the same way with this one but she keeps wrapping her self around it and going at her 'light' i don't know what it is it is a lamp that makes heat with no light anyways it is hot and i am afraid she is going to get burned so is there anyway to train her not to go onto it? i keep taking her off (gently!!!) every time she goes on it but she hates spraying in her cage so could i just spray her or something??? (not going to if thats really bad or something ) i don't know it makes me super paranoid i sit on my computer and EVERY 5-10 mins my head is swinging over to make sure she isn't on it which isn't fun and it has to stay up when i am in the room because i need to make sure the heating in my room isn't hurting her humidity (it hasn't in a while) but when i sleep or leave for a long time i take it down

[redshepherd]

The lamp sounds like a CHE? It should be on a thermostat. And if it is inside her cage where she can touch it, it should have a cage around it to prevent her from touching it.

Also, her hygrometer is stuck on something and rips off? You can just buy an Acurite hygrometer, and put it on the floor of the enclosure. It doesn't need to hang on the glass.

Maybe take a picture of her enclosure and post it?

[bcr229]

It sounds like you have one of the stick-on hydrometers. They're inaccurate as heck and eventually they will fall or be ripped off by your snake, but then it will stick very nicely to your snake. Replace it with the kind that has a probe as mentioned above.

[MD_Pythons]

Is your heat emitter inside the tank? Replace those stick on thermometers and hydrometers. As has already been said that CHE needs to be regulated, with a thermostat or dimmer. Really isn't a need to try to "train" her to not touch it.

[enginee837]

It has been my experience (with pythons anyway) that training is not really possible. The few instances where it is believed training occurred (tap training for example) was more of us learning their behavior and modifying our own to work around it.

[SDA]

You can modify their behavior slightly but like most predators, it is often food driven. With ball python it is also security driven. I have been able to both train my ball python to exit his enclosure and to differentiate between me and me with food. It takes way too long to say it is worthwhile however I can say however that it is possible to train pretty much anything... except a cat, forget those four legged monstrosities!

You are not going to train them not to crawl on something however, they are not dogs. Your best bet is to remove the distraction from the enclosure. Those stick on thermometers and hygrometers are like candy to most snakes. They will crawl over them and tear them off. They will also run the risk of tearing off the sticky part and getting it on themselves. That's another reason why most people here recommend throwing them away.

[lizzieholla]

Not sure what type of enclosure you have, but we have a melamine enclosure with a CHE and use this guard. It comes with the hardware and just screws into the ceiling of the enclosure (or wall if you have your CHE fixture off on one side as some do), and it has a spring latched bottom that opens for when the bulb needs to be changed. The CHE is plugged into a Zoomed thermostat to regulate the temp. The probe is fixed to the top of the hide beneath the CHE and the thermostat is set to a temp that allows a proper thermal gradient but doesn't allow the top of the hide (closest surface to the CHE) to ever approach a temp that could burn him. This way he can have ambient hot spot, belly heat, and back heat, and he does use all three to thermoregulate depending on what he feels like. We have two accurite hygro/thermometers, one on each end on the floor. The light source is a submersible LED bar meant for aquariums, that way it can be misted and never gets hot enough to harm him should he make his way up there. That's plugged into a timer on a 12/12 schedule.

As for cords, they're all run tight, high against the walls/along the cieling using these, but they are super-glued on instead of using the tape strips they come with.

Hope this has given you some ideas on how to noodle-proof your setup.

[Jhill001]

Idk about training a snake not to climb on stuff in it's enclosure but given recent discoveries and developments in captive reptile behavior and intelligence I'd refuse to believe that there isn't at least something that a snake could be trained to do.

[Zincubus]

I know someone already laughed
but honestly my snake keeps going up onto her hydrometer and it isn't safe for her! she is going to be too big and rip it off and hurt herself she stopped going onto her temperature measurer thingie because she fell too many times and i secured it better but i don't think i can the same way with this one but she keeps wrapping her self around it and going at her 'light' i don't know what it is it is a lamp that makes heat with no light anyways it is hot and i am afraid she is going to get burned so is there anyway to train her not to go onto it? i keep taking her off (gently!!!) every time she goes on it but she hates spraying in her cage so could i just spray her or something??? (not going to if thats really bad or something ) i don't know it makes me super paranoid i sit on my computer and EVERY 5-10 mins my head is swinging over to make sure she isn't on it which isn't fun and it has to stay up when i am in the room because i need to make sure the heating in my room isn't hurting her humidity (it hasn't in a while) but when i sleep or leave for a long time i take it down

I'd actually encourage the climbing and put some branches in there tbh


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