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I have a simple colombian red tail ( she's not simple to me of course but she's not a morph or anything ). She's abour 24 inches or so, strong healthy, eats well all the good stuff. Her only issue is she's a heavy duty burrowing. I noticed that when she had a regular house bulb in her heat lamp she didn't burrow. She basked and hung out. I replaced that ( she only had the house light bulb for about 4 days. Our petstore was closed. )with red heating bulb. I believe it's 100 watt or summat. Anyway she's back to burrowing.

Could it be the color of the light that's stressing her out?

Light bulbs are for lizards,BCI are "Nocturnal"
(Please look that word up) and ditch the overhead light sources.
Provide the animal with something in which to crawl into or under
to get away from all the LIGHT ,their refered to as "hides"and it will most likely stop the issues you are describeing.
Look around for some caresheets to read up on with commonly accepted husbandry methods of keeping boas.

Your animal would Thank You for it if it could.

M/

maybe the bulb is too hot prolly especially if its 100watts try around 50 and theres a blue "moon" bulb if you can find it that seems to work good