I have to agree.

Even my big female hides completey - when she got too big for conventional hides, a 4ft long tube of cork bark did the job.

I think the suggestion someone made about papering the outside of the tank is a good one too. One of my little Royals stopped feeding when I popped her plastic Geo container on top of a viv for a few weeks rather than inside one. A heat mat kept the temperature up, but she seemed to feel more exposed, even with a "snake rock" in there. I taped newspaper around the outside and left her well alone for a week. After that I offered a mouse and she went for it.

Obviously snakes are all different, but a sense of security and environmental control are the two most important things in snake husbandry, so I'd really recommend giving him a hide and papering the outside of the glass.

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