Weird hiding spots !

[GarterGuy17]

Well for a second I thought jade had escaped on the first day so I was going crazy taking things out the tank to find her. no luck weird actually she was inside a fake rose that I have in her setup. I don't understand why she would rather be there instead her other 2 hides but I guess it's whatever your snake likes ^_^

[EasternGirl]

This is a part of snake ownership that you will soon get used to...lol. I used to do that with my male eastern, Seeley...all the time. I'm laughing right now as I'm writing this...thinking about you doing that and thinking about how I used to do it...I used to do it on a daily basis...I would freak out and tear his enclosure apart...pull everything out of it...and eventually find him buried under the bedding somewhere...in fact...and make sure you don't make this mistake...he almost did escape once, because he was actually inside a plant, and I pulled everything out of his tank without checking the plant thoroughly and put the plant on the floor with him in it and then went back to checking the tank! Luckily, he did not crawl out of the plant and slither away! You should have heard everyone on here teasing me when I told them what I did... You will keep doing this for several months. Eventually you will trust that she is somewhere in the tank and stop thinking that she has escaped. I still do it now and again.

Oh...and you are right...snakes like what they like...Cee Cee prefers a slim jim can to all of her fancy log hides and Hermes likes little cardboard boxes and bushes...Seeley basically lives inside a little cardboard box that I made into a little house for him.

[kibakiba]

There's a teeny tiny little hole in one of the logs I had that the babies will shove themselves into. Thumbelina was almost always in that hole, until he grew too big to get in it. He still shoves his head into it, though. It's kind of cute.

[katach]

Our baby NW, Fish Bait, likes to curl up on top of one specific leaf at the very top of the tank after he eats. It's cute.

[chris-uk]

Our baby NW, Fish Bait, likes to curl up on top of one specific leaf at the very top of the tank after he eats. It's cute.

As I type, Eskerina is coiled around bits of plastic plant at the top of her viv. She's taken to sleeping up there late evening and through the night. And this is with her due to shed tomorrow or Tuesday (admittedly, she did spend most of the time that her eyes were blue borrowed in the aspen).

[chris-uk]

They often like to hide in places where they are touching all the sides, so my guess is that the rose was a tight squeeze and the hides are a little big for her. It can make the hides seem smaller if you put some moss in them, or just push them into the substrate a bit so that the inside is smaller.

[Mommy2many]

My 2 girls from Iowa love to rest inside an MP3 player box that has a cut-out opening on the top. It is their favorite place to sleep.

[EasternGirl]

Cee Cee loves that Slim Jim can...she sleeps in it all the time. If I can't find her in her tank...I just look in the can. If I put Seeley in for a visit, they will both curl up inside the can. Seeley has a cardboard box with carefresh inside and a little hole in the top. He basically lives inside of it...he pokes his head out all the time..it's so cute. Hermes favorite place is actually at the top of his hanging vine near the top of the tank or on top of a little bush under his lamp...but when he chooses to hide, he goes inside a little cardboard box with a little hole for a door.

[GarterGuy17]

Well sure enough the first time I did it I took out everything except the water bowls and flowers but I shook everything a bit while taking it out and she appeared , so after I did that I told myself to check thoroughly before doing that again. The second Time I found her in that flower. I will try to pick up some moss because her hides are pretty big even though she sleeps in them sometimes. She still prefers the flower's.

[EasternGirl]

You could also try the cardboard box thing...I just take little boxes from around the house..lightbulb boxes are good, boxes that have little things in them...like one of my boxes had alcohol swabs in it (in wrappers of course)...little boxes that the snake can get in and feel all of the sides of the box touching her...if the box doesn't have any openings, you can cut a little hole in the box...you can put some aspen or moss inside..or just leave it empty.