You're right in that most big snakes will also hide. Of my 5 adult boas, most of them don't regularly use their actual hides but instead burrow under the sheets I use as their substrate. Either way, they're hiding. With all the different plastic tubs on the market, it's easy and inexpensive enough to outfit most snakes with a suitable hide box. An alternative method to a hide box for large cages is providing a curtain across half the cage front. My 12' girl is in a homemade 8' X 2' X 2' melamine cage - the entire left side of which is covered by dark curtains (minimum 4' of privacy area). There are also a number of snakes, juvenile and adult, that aren't usually classified as arboreal that will utilize branches instead of hides (my Solomon Island ground boas come to mind for one). Granted branches aren't practicle for burms, but something to think about with a number of other boa and python species.

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