Bitten... and a question.

[zooplan]

Most of my terrariums are placed in the living room vis a
vis the TV. I can see my snakes often when they are watching TV togehter with my family.
First half of the body out of their hiding place and their head 8 or 10 inch raised up over the bedding.
I´ve never seen them all together but frequently one or two irrespective to their speci.

Until now I was not able to recognize if they prefer a special kind of program.

[drache]

my beardie used to love watching TV
now he likes looking into other enclosures

[GarterGirl]

I have realized something!
If you give them a lot of hiding places they feel safer
and they will come out more!

[zooplan]

Thats true especially for those specimen called to be very nervous.
A friend of mine had some kind of ivy or something similar in his encolsure.
He kept a few western ribbonsnakes (T. p. proximus). They were nervous as known until the plants has grown up and cover the buttom of the tank.
Then they become calm and snoopy, always laying between the leaves and raise their heads when anything was going on in the room.

[Morph]

mine have got 2 hides, 1 with a built in water dish and another plain hide. they both prefer the 1 under the basking lamp though. i guess these garters like it hot

this is the tank, i took the branches out for the sake of the photo

[Elliot]

Thats true especially for those specimen called to be very nervous.
A friend of mine had some kind of ivy or something similar in his encolsure.
He kept a few western ribbonsnakes (T. p. proximus). They were nervous as known until the plants has grown up and cover the buttom of the tank.
Then they become calm and snoopy, always laying between the leaves and raise their heads when anything was going on in the room.

Sounds exactly like my western ribbons.

[garterman07]

rico is like that he loves watching whats going on, he'll hide the rest of his body and only stick out his head then if you get close to his cage he raises up out of his hide, he also loves watching tv, along with the cats.

[zooplan]

..., he also loves watching tv, along with the cats.

that remembers me to a short story I like to tell:

Once I had a neighbour.
She did not like to have an own snake but raised some babies for me.
She fed them better than Iwas able to but was a little bit afraid about them to escape while handling them.
So my offspring was growing well in her custody but got shy and nervous as well.
Than she bought a cat.
And the special place of the cat was next to the snakes enclosure where it was warm all time because of the heat source.
It was allways trying to catch the snakes
And those save behind the glas began to fool the cat.
From that moment all offspring that raised by her were really calm and easy to handle.
But than my neighbour moved away because our government moved to Berlin.