Behira - 2016 Female Ivory Ghost - First BCI

[dakski]

Can also try moving the height of the cage by shifting it in the stack. Louie my BCL would strike the door any time i walked by when i had it lower on the stack. Once i moved him up higher, he quit. I guess the whole idea of being low and some larger thing walking by scared him. Rango has also struck the cage door a couple times but only on feed day when i am thawing rats. He curled his lower lip but after i gave him dinner, his lip went back to normal. You can cover the door but personally, i would just leave it and like i said, either move them up on the stack or start walking more slowly by the cages until the snake gets used to the movement.

Luna also used to strike the cage door and coil up when she was on the bottom of the stack when i moved her from her quarantine tank to one of the AP cages. After about a week, she quit doing it and now is completely oblivious and you can literally stomp past her cage and she just sits there. The snakes need to get used the surroundings. Covering them up will not help as when they get bigger and you uncover them, they will be scared of the open space and being larger, their strikes can hurt themselves.

Sauzo,

Behira is the second one down from the top (Frank the BTS is the top cage), so she is about 4-5 Feet up in the stack.

Secondly, she seems totally chill now with the fabric/drape in front. I took it off today to measure temps and she came and said hi, then went back into her house. No fanfare at all.

I get where you are going with this, but she has already bent teeth striking at the acrylic. I have talked to breeders and they are not sure she will "get used to it," and this may be her thing. Some have said she might outgrow it, but no way to know. When I spoke to Jeff Ronne, from Boaphile (he made my tanks and is always helpful, but I did not buy Behira from him), he said that some Boa's do it, and he thought the drape was a good solution.

How is this significantly different than people who keep Boa's in big racks/Tubs? It seems like those are pretty secure until you open them, and I would be doing the same thing with her, taking the drape off and opening the tank.

I am not trying to be argumentative, I am just curious what your thought process/experience is with Boa's who do this and why my setup makes you nervous (for me).

I appreciate any feedback, as always.