Patchy scales and some brown dots...

[redshepherd]

Ambient? With the weather getting colder here, we saw our ambient dip and some of ours started doing the exact same thing you're describing. Constant activity, searching, pushing on lids, even had 3 refuse rats that I would've told you the world would've had to stop spinning to get them to not take a rat. We bought a space heater for the room - one that has a built in thermostat - and are keeping out ambiant more in the 78-82. Boom - everyone's back to eating and hiding. All is well. The heater isn't setting directly in the floor though. We had concerns about carpeting as well. So it's on top of a piece of melamine.

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Interesting! I'll raise the ambient temps a couple more degrees too then... I also just bought a space heater that has a built in thermostat, but I feel iffy about leaving it on all day while I'm away at work. :s And even when I'm home to raise the temps to 78, Cake is still constantly searching/active, so maybe he just needs it even warmer... or maybe just longer term warmth, because I pretty much only turn on the heater and can observe him when I'm at home (and awake) from 8pm~1am every day.

I'll need to buy some kind of shelf or melamine surface for it too. Right now I have it on a plastic bin LOL.

[redshepherd]

So Cake was still constantly searching, active, uncomfortable... His ambient is flat at 80 now, so it's not the temps. I decided to just take out his (medium) hide, put it on the carpet, put his UTH on it, water bowl next to it, and let him slither in. He stayed in there quietly and peacefully for two hours straight... out on the carpet in his hide. Supervised, of course.

What's got him so uncomfortable when inside an enclosure? Is it his enclosure that's a problem then? He suddenly has a problem with aspen and paper towel, but likes carpet? I don't get it.

Then I finally put his hide back in the tub, put him back in, and he has stayed put since! Not active anymore! It's only been another hour, but we will see... Hopefully he finally decides to settle down after a month, randomly.

What the HELL, ball python.