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we saw the funniest thing last night one of our bps was burrowing under his substrate under his hide box (old flukers clamp lamp box) coming up through the bottom and sticking his head out the top hole of the box. now he didnt do this just once but many times he would cruse around his cage then do it again and again. we thought this was funny and we enjoyed watching him do this. we thought this was odd behavior for a bp but it was funny just the same.
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2.1.0 ball python (aragorn, frodo, arwen)
2.0.0 columbian boa (wiggles and squiggles)
1.0.0 rat snake (alabastered)
0.1.0 corn snake (baby)
3.3.0 cats (rockie, bs, brownie, lerrado, kole, camie)
1.3.0 kids (dilyen, dakota, chyanne, sierra)
Brian n Chrissy

My bp's cool side water dish has an overhung side against the edge of the aquarium. For the first month or so that I had her, she liked to get in the space between the aquarium wall and the water dish. She eventually excavated a tunnel through the substrate under the water dish to give her better access.

Bill
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It's not how many snakes you have. It's how happy and healthy you can keep them.

after we noticed him doing this we noticed one of our boa's burrowed with his head sticking out. now our yellow rat he is always hiding. just never thought a ball python would tunnel like that.
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2.1.0 ball python (aragorn, frodo, arwen)
2.0.0 columbian boa (wiggles and squiggles)
1.0.0 rat snake (alabastered)
0.1.0 corn snake (baby)
3.3.0 cats (rockie, bs, brownie, lerrado, kole, camie)
1.3.0 kids (dilyen, dakota, chyanne, sierra)
Brian n Chrissy

Both of mine do that. I found my male doing the same thing as yours this morning with his head popping out of the substrate behind his hide, isn't it adorable!? I get worried when they do this that they will get burned on the undertank heaters but they never do.
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1.1 Balls (1.0 het clown 0.1 normal)
1.1 Kittys and
0.1 WC Human
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