I feel like I've been posting so much about this snake, but just want to make sure I'm getting it all right and there isn't anything I need to change. My BP arrived last tuesday, and I quickly learned her hides weren't small enough for her. She was curling up beside the glass instead of hanging out inside her hides. Anyway, I swapped out the cold hide for a smaller one and added a small hide on the warm side. She had been using the small warm and cold hide, until just yesterday. I went in to feed her (And actually had a mini heart attack because I couldn't find her in her cage... thought she escaped. Yeah, freakiest 10 minutes of my life. In any case) and she was hiding underneath her water bowl. It now seems to be her favorite spot and shes completely ignoring the hides I put in her cage, even though they are size appropriate. She just ate yesterday and I'm wondering if its going to be problematic because shes spending all her time on the cold side. I've heard of ball pythons preferring the cold side of the terrarium, but she just ate, so in theory won't she want to be on the side with the heating pad to help digestion? When I put her in a separate container for feeding, I flattened out the area around the water bowl so that wouldn't be the first place she would want to go back to, but now shes just dug right under it again.
The warm side is 90 degrees, the cold side is staying at 77, and the humidity hangs around 47 (I know its on the low side, its really dry where I live and I'm going to buy a mister and start spraying her cage.)
So basically, any ideas why shes doing this? Human error on my part or is she possibly just weird? Would it be worth reorganizing the cage, so her surroundings are completely new, or could that just stress her out? OR, am I just way overthinking this whole thing? Whichever it is, thanks for the help guys!