Quote Originally Posted by Zombie View Post
I didn't say that you said they should come out during the day, I actually agreed with you that they are nocturnal. However, a PROPERLY fed BP should not need to "hunt" daily and roam all night. If its in its hide at night, it's content. It's not like it thinks "hmm, think ill go for a midnight stroll". They are instinctual animals. They do what they need to survive. Once again, you are placing your human emotions on them. They don't think like you.
Just wanted to highlight this specifically because it is a very valid point. With these animals, if you want to delve into their psychology as a part of their husbandry, you need to learn how to separate your emotions and wishes from what a BP just sees as daily survival, meaning they do much of anything that transcends beyond their needs (food, shelter, warmth, water). Once again, these snakes (most snakes, I would even venture) survive almost purely on instinct and do not engage in much recreational activity, so to speak, like most other animals. They do not play, exercise, seek extra stimulus from their environment, or as Zombie put it say "hmm, think ill go for a midnight stroll".
These are animals of habit and when they aren't surviving, they are resting in a very sheltered area, it is almost as simple as that. In that resting state is when we could presume that they are at their most content so I think the best enclosure/captive habitat would be one that facilitates that mental state whether it be a rack or a terrarium.