My little yellow belly male is relatively new and I've never seen a bp burrow this much. My first gal would do it every so often, but not to this extent...
He shed just before I got him and his temps and humidity are good. He's in a 20 gallon black-backed with a branch, water bowl and hide. He's about four months old I don't have an exact weight on him, but I'll get it later today. He has been pounding rat pups of a decent size and seems pretty content... Hiding during the day, calm and friendly to handle.
At night, however, he pushes around his substrate and burrows a lot. At first I thought it was a temperature thing, but he digs motes around his water bowls and around the rock above his heating pad. (for this reason I've got the thing timed now. I was a little worried he'd burn himself.) Sometimes he pushes a ton of mulch up against the opening to his hide, and just sticks his little head out in the middle of it to look out.
I did try a bigger hide, and the behavior didn't change. I tried to raise the humidity a bit to see if that's what he was after, but he still dug away.
I don't mind it a bit, I just wanted to know if I should be concerned at all.
He doesn't seem stressed, and to be completely honest he is one of the sweetest, most personable animals I've ever met.
Thanks for your thoughts!
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