I bet they do hide. Its just a shame because my stores mamager who I made the guy call is the snake guy and I've never seen the snakes look that bad before not to mention 1 being dead and the rest frozen. I will definately be having. Talk with him about educating his staff on the keeping of herps. I mea the temp and humidity levels are right here in the cage. There is no excuse. But just seeing the dead boa and mites crawling on me really set me off. Well made me more sad than anything.