I feel that every BP is diffrent and has it's own personality. For instance, mine seems to like his temps around 85 on his hot side and around 75 to 80 on his cool side. If I raise the hot side hotter than 85 he sits on the cool side to much, or right on the edge of the hot side, but never fully in it. It took me a good two weeks of near constant checking before I finally got it right lol.

As for a hiding BP, agian all BP are diffrent. Mine, if he's not in shed, is almost never in his hide. Istead he almost always in the top of his plants, or hiding somewhere in them. I also have to soak him about twice to three times a week because he won't get in his own water bowl lol. The breeder told me he never had like being in his bowl and the rare times that he does he won't drink out of it until I change it.