Rosies are ground-dwellers. In the wild they hide most of their lives in burrows, usually around, in, under rocks and crevices.

If you live in a humid area, then screen top enclosures are best. And only put a water bowl in the cage a few days a week. If you live where ambient humidity is low or low-moderate, you do not need a screen top. I keep mine in plastic cages with rather limited ventilation, and they do fine. But the ambient humidity is rarely high, so there are no problems.

The young love to coil up in PVC pipe. Cut a section of 1-inch dia PVC pipe and place over the heat pad, and another in a cooler area, or one larger piece to span both. You can nestle it in the aspen a bit so it doesn't roll, or stick a few pieces of epoxy putty to make tiny legs so it doesn't roll. I feed mine right in there - they love to eat in simulated burrows.

I attached a pic of rock crevices I used in baby rosy cages, but they most chose to stay in the PVC pipe. So much for trying to make "naturalistic" cages.

They also like to hide under newspaper laid over the aspen.

I wouldn't use wood pieces. They are not like kingsnakes in that way. Neodesha plastics sells platic hides that work well.




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