Is my new tub setup too cramped?

[CantHelpIt]

It obviously depends on the animal, but I have had girls Ive moved up at the 600g mark, and have done fine. But on the other hand I have had ones at 1000g that I tried to move up, and all the sudden they will refuse to eat. Put them in a small tub and bam! Nice feeding response again. Its nice to have options. I have 6qt, 15qt, 34, 41, so you can play with sizes for each snake. But I normally will try to move them out of the 15qt between 600-800g when they start to outgrow a medium reptile basics hide, as thats the largest that fits in those tubs. But if they don't like it I just move them back down with no hide and they do fine. Its all about just knowing your animals and what stresses them.

Exactly, there's exceptions and some snakes won't utilize a lot of space so you just have to know your animals.
I've been lucky and all mine take advantage of the space to stretch out so I've been able to have them on display

[Slim]

Will the small reptile basics hides become too small pretty quickly?

I don't usually move my BPs up to the medium hides until they're wearing the smalls like a hat.

[Caspian]

I have a small Reptile Basics hide and a medium hide that I made in the tub with one of my girls. Arìana, at 226g - I just weighed her. She had two small hides, and started - as was already described - wearing it like a hat. I took one of the small hides out, and put the medium one (made it from a butter tub) in instead. She hates the one I made. Won't have anything to do with it. She hates it so much that she started fitting inside the small one again. I swear one of these days I'm going to lift it up and there will be a rectangular snake inside, but she doesn't pick it up off the floor of the tub at all anymore, which tells me that she was just a lazy coiler. She's really too small still for the medium Reptile Basics hide. My 471g boy (He WAS 500g, until he pooped!) is in one of those, with room to spare. There really needs to be something between the two. Same with Exo-Terra hides... I like them, and so do my snakes, but the small is tiny compared to the medium, and the medium is tiny compared to the large. My largest girl, 565g, wouldn't fit in the medium anymore, but she's lost in the large. Unfortunately, the place I normally buy hides was out of the Reptile Basics style in medium, so I'm going to have to order directly from them most likely.

All of mine are in Sterilite 12.5q tubs, and do fine in them, though once the rack I ordered is finally delivered they'll be in 15-something quart tubs instead. I would not say that any of them are ready to move up to a larger enclosure.

My smallest, Lue, is in the Exo-Terra small hides. It's about perfect for him. He's only 106g... but when he arrived on 2/9 he was only 81g, and he only ate two feedings before going into blue and starting to refuse. Hopefully now that he's shed he'll eat again.

[Zincubus]

I have a small Reptile Basics hide and a medium hide that I made in the tub with one of my girls. Arìana, at 226g - I just weighed her. She had two small hides, and started - as was already described - wearing it like a hat. I took one of the small hides out, and put the medium one (made it from a butter tub) in instead. She hates the one I made. Won't have anything to do with it. She hates it so much that she started fitting inside the small one again. I swear one of these days I'm going to lift it up and there will be a rectangular snake inside, but she doesn't pick it up off the floor of the tub at all anymore, which tells me that she was just a lazy coiler. She's really too small still for the medium Reptile Basics hide. My 471g boy (He WAS 500g, until he pooped!) is in one of those, with room to spare. There really needs to be something between the two. Same with Exo-Terra hides... I like them, and so do my snakes, but the small is tiny compared to the medium, and the medium is tiny compared to the large. My largest girl, 565g, wouldn't fit in the medium anymore, but she's lost in the large. Unfortunately, the place I normally buy hides was out of the Reptile Basics style in medium, so I'm going to have to order directly from them most likely.

All of mine are in Sterilite 12.5q tubs, and do fine in them, though once the rack I ordered is finally delivered they'll be in 15-something quart tubs instead. I would not say that any of them are ready to move up to a larger enclosure.

My smallest, Lue, is in the Exo-Terra small hides. It's about perfect for him. He's only 106g... but when he arrived on 2/9 he was only 81g, and he only ate two feedings before going into blue and starting to refuse. Hopefully now that he's shed he'll eat again.

I wonder why they haven't added a few more sizes into their range ??

[pbyeerts]

You can always buy a larger enclosure, and clutter it up with branches, rocks, etc so that your BP can grow into it. Ginger started out in a 20 aquarium, moved to a 40 after 1 year, and is now in a 60 at 2.5 years. Her final home will be a 48x23x23 PVC that we have to assemble soon. Just my 2 cents......


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