Is this a bowl wrap or lumping?

[RogueStar]

Here's my happy couple in the middle of the male's excuse for a shed.

The female is about two thirds wrapped around the water bowl, is this a bowl wrap or lumping behaviour? I saw this last night and it looks good to me but this is the first time I've seen it so I'm afraid I want it so bad I'm imagining it... She hung out like that for a while and this morning I found her coiling in the center of the box.

I don't think she's glowing, she is generally quite light coloured. She's a nervous one, and doesn't relax on my hands for palpating follicles.

Should I see more bowl wrapping in the next few days or weeks, or can this is be an irrelevant posture where the female just happened to be in? I'd love to hear what you think.



Thanks everyone!

[BChambers]

It could be-if she maintains that posture for several hours, I'd say it definitely is a bowl wrap....

[joepythons]

I am not sure .Is that the carpet stuff on the floor in the tub? If so please throw out that bacteria holding nasty smelling junk .Its worthless

[Sputnik]

Yeah, if that's carpet then get rid of it.... looks to me that is just the position she is in and not wrapping. You will really notice wrapping when you see it....

[RogueStar]

I checked that box soon before I went to bed and she was still in that posture when I did. Well, I guess time will tell...

No, that's not any carpet, that's basically dead, dried sphagnum moss. It's mined up from swamps where I think dead moss have become like that over the years. It absorbs huge amounts moisture and doesn't get moldy easily. It has worked for me nicely as bedding for both my mice and my snakes.

Here it's easily available in garden stores for a few euros per 65-liter (around 10 gallons) bag but over there I think they sell a different type of stuff as the same, I guess the plant material is somehow different over there.

Had to change the whole stuff to new cos of the shed shreads though Usually spot cleaning is effortless with this.

Thanks guys!

[West Coast Jungle]

I thought it was coconut bedding

[RogueStar]

A little update on what's going on:

These love birds spent a couple of days locked together almost all the time. Now I changed the water and SHE IS AT IT AGAIN!! Yeah baby, it's definetely a bowl wrap this time, she's been like that for over an hour now and she seems quite content where she is.

Crossing my fingers....

[Tosha_Mc]

Just something I've noticed - when my snakes are doing the "bowl wrap" - if they have their bellies pressed to the bowl - that is generally a developing behavior - if they are just wrapped around the bowl - bellies down - that is generally a security behavior.

[RogueStar]

Thanks, I'll keep an eye for that, this does look good though, she's quite tightly around the water bow.

What kind of security behavior?