Need Help ASAP

[Shifty11]

Hey,

Our second BP is being durpy and has gotten stuck under his hide last night (lifts it up and burrows out the side and the hide holds him down so he can't get out or move so he thumps about to get unstuck) He just did it again tonight but with a different hide but further down his body (compared to last night that was practically at is head)

We are worried he is going to hurt himself which we don't want so we took out his heavier hide and left in his lighter one for tonight (as we are concerned the heavier one will seriously hurt him) and we snugged down his other down deeper into the substrate. Any advice?? He is just being stupid durpy and lifting up his hide and letting it fall on his body making him get stuck...

His temps and all that are fine too, same as our other BP and same it has always been, nothing has changed in his terrarium since we got him over a month or two ago.

Thanks, Any info needed ill post.


Shifty

[ViperSRT3g]

Because your BP is probably not going to stop doing something like this, you might as well make it EASIER for them to do so. Mine enjoyed doing exactly this, though I was never around during the bumping about phase. You could always tell because of the marks left in the substrate of what he was up to. My solution was to pile the substrate into a small berm around the perimeter of the hide. Then place the hide on top of the little hill. This allowed him to make tunnels through the substrate without the hide falling down. Sometimes he does it, sometimes he doesn't. But when he does, his hide has two entrances for him to enter at his leisure.

[Shifty11]

Because your BP is probably not going to stop doing something like this, you might as well make it EASIER for them to do so. Mine enjoyed doing exactly this, though I was never around during the bumping about phase. You could always tell because of the marks left in the substrate of what he was up to. My solution was to pile the substrate into a small berm around the perimeter of the hide. Then place the hide on top of the little hill. This allowed him to make tunnels through the substrate without the hide falling down. Sometimes he does it, sometimes he doesn't. But when he does, his hide has two entrances for him to enter at his leisure.

Thanks, i just tried this and hopefully we will see how it goes. Our originally Spider BP only did this sort of thing once and never again, and he never did it until last night and again tonight so we were worried don't want him hurting himself...


Shifty

[Shifty11]

-- I have Another Question in relation to the same BP...figured id post here to see if anyone answers before making another thread --

So this little guy hisses about 60% of the time if i take him out of his cage, so I'm fairly familiar with what his hisses sound like, and I've heard my other BP sort of clear her nose. However, every once in a while myself and my girlfriend will hear a LOUD hiss like sound but more like a big puff coming from his tank..Its loud like, clearly heard over us talking and TV on while he is in his cage on the other side of the room..

Don't believe it is a RI thing, as no sign of it whatsoever but i was thinking maybe thats how loud he is when he sort of clears his nose or whatever.. It will happen maybe once every 3 or more days (i haven't really started to think much of it until tonight)

Shifty

[Slim]

Your snake might be flatulent. It happens.

[Shifty11]

Your snake might be flatulent. It happens.

Okay that makes so much sense...hilarious but it makes sense..only been around when he pooped once and it was also loud. So you made a valid point. It probably is actually that, can't believe i didn't think of that! Thanks


Shifty

[Benjamin Serenity]

By 5 year old enjoys pushing his hide around, I ended up switching out a heavy clay hide for a light plastic box type hide that I purchased from ReptileBasics. The good thing about the lightweight hides is that there's no way they can hurt themselves by letting it fall on them. Sometimes my guy goes all the way inside his hide, and sometimes he likes to stick his head out the side of it. Almost like he's looking out for any wandering rats :p

[TurkeyPython]

My girl used to do that all the time too. I kept getting worried but she wouldn't stop so i moved it so the hide is sitting on the bottom not the substrate and I put some extra substrate inside of her hide. Now she burrows inside her "indoor substrate mountain" instead.