Strange behavior

[Skeletor]

Weeks before a shed starts, I see a difference in behavior with my BP. He will stop using his hide and get under the paper towel floor I have in the cage. Does anyone else ever notice a change in somewhat normal routine behavior weeks before any sure signs of a shed are obvious ?

[dr del]

Mine seem to get a lot less active and one of them gets really grumpy. She sits and hisses at nothing.

[Skeletor]

Sure enough....12 days later my BP's eyes are going grey/blue. I can tell that far in advance, maybe even 14 days before my BP is going to shed. I do notice the change in behavior.

[KitaCat]

Some of mine act grumpy/less active for a week or so beforehand. My Woma python just recently shed with me for the first time, and I was perplexed by why he was in his hide for almost a solid week, when he's usually slithering around all day. All back to normal now after the shed.

[beeze]

My BP gets testy when he's in shed. He hides a lot more too.

[nightrainfalls]

is probably an attempt to find humidity. BP's in the wild would find high humidity under ground. Your BP is probably following an ancient program that says, get moist pre-shed+ find moisture under ground= go under substrate.

David

[Skeletor]

Good call nighttrain......makes good sense. I've also come to the conclusion that they don't see that well for starters (clear eye not cloudy). It's almost like they use 2 senses to decide what something is. If they don't get both...it's not a mouse. My BP will pass over a thawed mouse if that mouse cools down....He obviously smells it but passes clean over it. If I heat the mouse back up...he will snap it up. Even if I don't shake it and its laying in his feeding cage. So a cooled down ,motionless mouse is pretty much invisible to my BP. A warm motionless mouse....he sees it.