Sorry pressed enter... Anyway what is was getting at was one of my girls was almost literally telling me to take this hide out of my home. Had another one started getting stressed when i took his hide out cause he was sitting behind his hide like yours was. My advice is to test it out without a hide the snake will tell you if it wants it back(pushing, rubbing constantly, bucking when you reach in, not eating things like that) do to these snakes being different from eachother somethings are still trial and error.