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I am currently sitting next to my little over 7 month old tiger retic named Lilith (Lily for short cuz she's just a little thing right now). She's about 3-3.5 ft long, my husband and I can't get her to sit still long enough for us to measure properly, eating well and growing like mad (about as big around as a half dollar now, just quarter sized when we got her) She pounds food like crazy, healthy as the proverbial horse.

What is concerning me is this strange new behavior she's exhibiting. She has been pushing her nose around the edges of the container we have her in, trying to lift the lid on it for the past 45 minutes now! I have the edges weighted, so there's no way she can lift it more than a centimeter or so, but I am highly concerned as to why she might be doing this. Can anyone help me out here? Enclosed is a link to the type of container we have her in until we can get her a Boaphile or similar enclosure. We have multiple small holes in the lid for airflow, a heatlamp positioned over half the container, waterdish, hide and everything provided. All I want to do is keep my baby girl happy, is there something I'm not doing for her?
Sterilite container

I might suspect that your retic is hungry and looking for food. I mention this for a few reasons. My retics tend to pace a lot and push at the doors when they are hungry. I also have a 9 month old retic that is closer to the 5-6’ range and I feed her every 5 days or so. A 7 month old at 3.6 feet sounds small unless you have a dwarf of sorts. I know that genetics and a whole host of others things can come into play with size but I would look at your feed schedule. How often and what are you feeding your retic? For me I would feed a 3-4 foot retic small to medium rats once a week. The second thing I noticed was that sterilite tub looked small but that just might have been the picture that gave me that impression. Maybe she is also looking for more room to stretch out.

my two cents
Allen