The Arizona soda box is the cover for their plastic moss hide, so it is dark for them. They also have stacked terra cotta saucers under this box which sit over the UTH, so they can have a choice of heat levels. To take their picture I had to lift the soda box off. All my snakes get either these big boxes to cover their moss hides and other hides, or in the case of the baby pyros, deep aspen and a solid color moss hide over the UTH, or they can go under their water bowl, another popular hide out. I also have 8 ten gallon tanks with deep aspen and multiple stacked plant saucers for my pyro yearlings, too. But this fall those will be changed for three big tanks so I can set up and brumate my new trios. Lots of aspen, lots of nooks and crannies, and big boxes to make things dark seem to work very well. They are more prone to come out and be seen if they know they have a lot of good cover readily available.

An improvement I did make just now is I replaced the piece of fiberglass under the water bowl with a big baker's pan, so now that hide is dark, too. I had noticed they were not using it that much, so hope darker will make it more attractive. Thanks!
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

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