I have a 20gal glass tank with a screen top for my boy, who's about 210gr. It's got stuff for him to climb on, which he does use at night, and it's got a hide, and a big water bowl which he goes swimming in, and I'm using that cotton-based substrate (whatever it's called). The trouble is keeping humidity up is a pain in the ass. I have a heating pad that does the job on one side of the tank and his hide is on the other side of the tank. It's about 95/85, but I worry on cold nights his hide might get colder (sometimes I find him burrowed under the substrate on top of the hot pad in the morning like he decided it was too damn cold).

By contrast I just got a new girl, and I've got her in a tupperware tub that's plenty big for her. It's not real tall, maybe eight inches, two feet deep, and probably fourteen inches wide. She's not real big, at 370gr and she's real stocky so she's not too long. I put a towel in there for her to hide under, though she prefers to hang out on top of it, a heat pad underneath it, though she prefers not to use it, and a water bowl big enough for her to submerse herself in.

What's kicking my butt is she seems happier in her "quarantine tupperware" than my boy does in his glass tank, and now I'm starting to think I should get him a tupperware and set him up separately. She's always real calm when she goes back to the tupperware, and he's always real apprehensive when he goes back to the tank. She's always real calm when I take the lid off the tupperware, and he's always apprehensive, like I'm taking him away from his home.

I can't account for the difference in behavior. I will say this: it is far easier to clean the tupperware, to move it, it's far smaller and more manageable, and breeders use them. I can put my snakes in tupperware (all two of them) and still handle them and they won't get nippy or anything, right? And I get all the benefits of increased humidity, ease of cleaning, and a relaxed snake?

Can someone point out where I'm missing some logic here? I'd just as soon put my boy in a tub and put beardies in the tank.