I've done a few threads over the last 2 months concerning my Bloods constant need to push with his face on the front glass doors of his tank. He would push so hard there would be snake slobber all over the glass and his face would end up with a few marks on it from the little ridge where the glass door meets the tank itself, he even chipped away some skin and bled from it to. He would do this for days at a time non-stop.

This is how I stopped it.

1st suggestions from my fellow Blood owners here was to lower his temps a few degrees and see if that calms him down. I lowered them from 88 on the hot side to eventually 82 and still my boy would push.

2nd suggestion was I put his hides back in but again that didn't work either.

The problem he was having was stress and me. I wasn't putting 2 and 2 together to recognize my Blood had outgrown his old 2x3 tank from reptile basics and needed a little more room. He was over 3 feet in length and I just didn't think of getting a bigger setup.

3rd suggestin came from Kara to purchase a 2x4 and he's been in his new tank now for 3 weeks and my guy has been resting comfortably with no pushing at all and his mug is healing nicely. This is why Kara is my Blood Queen.



In short order: My Blood was stressing because his home was too small and because his owner sucks. I should have purchased a bigger tank before this happened. I have failed.