Quote Originally Posted by AbsoluteApril View Post
We have one dwarf baby left, she was in a tub for the first year+ but then I moved her into a plexi front opening enclosure thinking she'd like it and she started pushing like crazy. I even upped her food size but she pushed and pushed causing swelling on the gum. I moved her back into a tub and she's stopped pushing. Sometimes it's the cage and not food that drives it. Some retics get that little breath of a crack of air and just go nuts. Have you possibly tried covering the bottom 1/3 or 1/2 of the glass with some paper just to see if that reduces it at all? Just a thought. It does sound like yours is a food pusher, I just wanted to mention other possible factors to see if the pushing can in any way be eliminated. I hate seeing their beautiful faces getting all smashed up, silly snakes! Don't hurt the pretty!
That really could be a good solution. She had never pushed until I took the divider out of her T8 last September/October of 2016. She had been in the side with door on the inner track and didn't have as much of an air gap as the other side. I'll try covering the front and see if that helps. She'll still have that small gap of fresh air between the doors at the center so we'll see how it goes.


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