Currently, my BP has two hides, like he should. His previous owner (college student who got caught with the snake in his dorm) only had one hide on the UTH side, so the first thing I did was to make him a smaller hide out of an old (and ugly olive green) tupperware container - it's smaller, darker, and has a much smaller entry hole.

He almost exclusively uses the smaller "Tupperware" hide, on the cool side of his terrarium.

I thought about ditching the larger hide on the warm side, but he loves climbing around on it at night - if I check on him past 11pm or so, 90% of the time he's bouncing around on the big "UTH side" hide:



Here are the options, as I see them:

1. Leave things alone - he's used the bigger hide his entire life.
2. Take out the bigger hide, but leave him without a jungle-gym.
3. Switch the hides - so the tupperware one is on the warm side, the junglegym on the cool side.

Incidentally, the cool side is also the darker side. Not sure if that has anything to do with anything, but what the heck - as much information as possible, eh?