Hide or no Hide (or no brainer?)

[RoyalGuardian]

I'm curious if many of you use a hidebox, have some partial shade/hide, or use nothing in your BP enclosure.

After a few weeks, I took the simple cardboard-box hide I made out of the enclosure. My snake had spent the better part of the week inside of it, and many more hours besides. As I have a nice glass-wall enclosure, only one snake, and want to show him off a little it was considerably annoying that he didn't want to show his face at all!

I have a young snake, so I thought he had better get used to the movement of one or two people outside his cage. He's already acclimated fine to the new environment and fed recently before I removed the box, and after.

For the most part, he seems to do fine, so apart from a difficult shed and a recent refusal to eat, he's doing well, moving around and laying stretched out along a log. Need I worry about putting a hide in at this point?

YES YOU NEED TO WORRY!!!!!!! Ball Pythons are burrowing snakes. They are happiest when they are hiding! Put a real hide box in there or your snake's health is gunna go down hill like it sounds like it already has. If you want a snake that would be out and about active you picked the wrong species. I suggest 2 hideboxes, some fake plants, and if you are using an old aquarium to cover three of the four walls with paper. If your not going to listen I would say that you need to give your snakie to someone on here that cares about the well being and mental health of the animal instead of themselves first. If you want a snake for show your best bet is a plastic snake. I implore you to give your snake what it needs, and I guarentee that you will have a better relationship with your snake because of it. I'm sorry for getting a bit defensive but one of my greatest pet peeves is when people think of themselves before their snake and or don't bother to research untill their brain starts leaking before bringing home a snake. I really really hope you will make the right choice.