Good to hear your worm is moving more and using its tail.Originally Posted by SDA
Sounds like Pat is settling in just fine. I was worried with how much it was moving around but from he recent pictures it does look like it is perching during the day and has found a nice spot. Ganja picked her favorite spot right away and goes back to that after roaming at night. She has been using her tail and by proxy vent area a lot lately to hold on to things while climbing and I like that.
Looks also like your plants are starting to grow rapidly. That's my biggest drawback for live plants is the inevitable cutting back that needs to be done and that mouth full of needles just waiting to inform me that it is her cage and I do not belong
Pat actually has like 4 spots. I catch him under his CHE either curled up under it or stretched out fully across the perch, then on the second perch at the intersection of the horizontal and vertical perches, and finally on top of his plant. Last night I caught him in a new place. He had his tail wrapped around his top perch and was stretched out on the semi vertical perch.
And honestly, I'm not too worried about Pat biting me. He seems pretty laid back and the few times I have disturbed him from sleeping, he just calmly lifts his head from under his coils and looks at me and then either sits there or slowly climbs to a higher perch and curls back up. He did hiss a few times when I first got him and disturbed him but he doesn't do that anymore.
As for cutting plants back, that's why you use something like a Parlor Palm or other palm which grows slow or use nerve Plant which is more of a low grower. I ended up taking out the Pothos and Prayer Plant as they were growing too tall and interfering with Pat's ability to sit on his lowest and second perch.
I need Pat to grow faster so I can get him either that giant AP cage or something more realistic like a 4x2x3 A20.
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