Restless/trying to escape?

[Brixxart]

It is unlikely the royal is causing anything as far as reaction to its presence. The species are separate and hormonal cues male/male male/female should not spur any changes between the two species. Even if that was a possibility, the animals are young, breeding behavior, for the boa is a little ways off.

How close are these animals to one another? If the royal has only been there 2 weeks, and they are close, there maybe a quarantine issue as in the royal brought back mites or some disease. Hopefully not, but if the behavior changed shortly after the other snake was put into the room it is possible, especially if you have handled them back to back or used equipment without disinfecting it.

Are you checking temps with a heat gun?


It also could be your boa is just busy. My coastal carpet and boa will both push and roam when they are fed well, and do it more so in the warmer months.

The setup you have sounds complete and well maintained so unless you are getting some false temp readings, that should not be the cause.

Have you looked into adding perches for your snake to climb? It may be helpful.

A young boa will be hungry and you may be on the cusp of upping the prey size, I'm not sure as I don't know what the snake or prey look like. Also do you feed the royal on the same day as the BC? Food in the air may set him off if he's not eating.

How is the royal acting? Anything off?

the royal seem's perfectly healthy, I've been monitoring them closely, ive been unable to house them in different rooms for quarantine but I've been extremely careful not to cross contaminate anything, so far they ate on the same day the one time i've fed the royal in my care so far (He's due to eat today whereas the boa will be eating in another 3 days so we'll see how that goes tonight) but I've taken special care not to cross contaminate anything at all all their supplies are duplicated for each snake, fed in different areas, seperate tongs, supplies cleaned with different brushes, even as far as to use different misting bottles lol.

I'm not 100% learned on ball python behavior but he seems to be acting normal enough, still pretty skittish around everything and just seems to be a much jumpier snake but other than that when I've examined him he seems entirely healthy as well, no signs of mites or other visible illnesses.


I don't have a temp gun yet but I have 3 different digital temperature probes, two are permanent one I move around to make sure everything is reading the same.

Here's an image of the boa's enclosure he's stll fairly small so he can climb on all the branches with ease and does so fairly often.