My yearling jungle carpet python, Glowbug, has been so awesome! He's calmed down nicely so far, eaten for me twice (tomorrow is food day #3), and is just generally an absolute joy. He makes full use of his enclosure, as I have plenty of things for him to climb and plenty of places to hide. He really likes sitting on top of the plants suction-cupped near the top and sleeping there, right up by the doors.

Over the past two days though, he's discovered he can get behind the 3D background of his enclosure. I'm not sure if he found a way on the top or bottom, but yesterday he was kind of stuck to what should be velcro (the force from the background pulling away from the back of the tank is too great, and it completely removes the velcro from the back of the tank and is thus useless as the adhesive just isnt strong enough). I helped him out, took the opportunity to clean his cage while I had everything disassembled, set it back up and put him back inside. He was fine the whole night.

Today, he did it again but this time I found him in a crevice in the 3D molding itself. He wasn't stuck this time, but I'm not comfortable with him being there as he doesnt have access to his heat pad or water, and he may not know how to get out. Again I took everything out, helped him out of there, put things back (more tightly this time to hopefully hold the background a little better), and put him back. I covered his tank up with a blanket too in case he was favoring the darkness, but when I checked later I didn't see him in the tank at all. I know he's back behind the background again but I don't want to have to keep taking it apart to move him. I'd also like to keep the background in there, as it's 3D and has ledges he likes to climb on (which helps him get to his higher sitting spots, I had this in mind since I knew he would be pretty small).

What can I do? I don't want to secure the background with silicon or anything because I need to be able to remove it for cleaning etc. There are TINY gaps at the top from where it won't sit in properly because the adhesive on the velcro can't hold it, but I don't think it's enough for him to fit. He might be using the bottom, which is why I used hides etc to push it back and close the gaps that may happen... but he finds his way somehow.