I set up a nesting box for my girl and filled it with play sand. Well, she tore her little face up trying to burrow in it.

She is trying to nest! But her behavior is showing she will hold onto her eggs until she can't hold them any longer.. this is what you do not want to happen.

Do this.. take the "nesting box" out and place a heavy piece of tile or thick glass over some very slightly moist substrate (I just use pine shavings) an the snakes will crawl under it do their nesting that they need to feel secure.


A snake does not always recognize a nest "box" as a nesting site.


PS

OH and please do not remove the water dish like so many people do.. it is pure torture for a nesting female to not have water to drink available at all times.
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• Nesting Box Substrate for my King - jennblank, Wed Mar 19 07:25:38 2014
• RE: Nesting Box Substrate for my King - OrangeHeterodon, Wed Mar 19 09:03:02 2014
• RE: Nesting Box Substrate for my King - AaronBayer, Wed Mar 19 09:20:05 2014
• RE: Nesting Box Substrate for my King - Bluerosy, Wed Mar 19 11:52:40 2014
• RE: Nesting Box Substrate for my King - FR, Wed Mar 19 14:56:21 2014
• RE: Nesting Box Substrate for my King - jennblank, Thu Mar 20 10:58:46 2014