Hi,

Did you make any other changes to the tank round about the time you noticed him really start doing this a lot?

I ask because I have seen tank changes make the animals re-explore their environment.

[grandpa reminisces on a barrel]
About 15 years ago a friend of mine had a 4 foot florida king in an aquarium with an aquarium hood containing a light tube loosely taped to the top.

I asked why it never escaped and he said it never even tried and had been in the same tank since he got it as a hatchling.

A year or so later he moved the tank from the bedroom to the living room for re-decorating and the snake escaped the very same night.

When he put it back in the tank it simply went straight to the lid it had ignored for years and shoved it off the tank. He had the back and sides covered so the only change from the snakes point of view was the scenery out the front of the tank.

All we could think of was that, when it initially explored the tank, it couldn't reach the lid and never thought to try again as it grew larger until the change of view made it re-examine the environment.
[/grandpa reminisces on a barrel]

Bottom line snakes are a lot more responsive to environmental changes than we realise at times.

But it could also be the search for love that has him all fired up and wanderlusty.


dr del