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Active while digesting, hiding while not

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Christaberk

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My root beer snake has taken to being out and about after eating. She ate two pinks tonight, and has been cruising her Viv ever since. I have noticed that she was active after her last feeding and hid under her water bowl when she was done digesting. I haven't seen her for a week. I feed her every 5 days, and she was late for her feeding. Thinking she may be in blue, I was going to just wait her out. But I never saw her. Lifted her bowl to it and she was curled up tightly.

She hasn't been under there at all since I added two new hides last month. Her temps are fine, but she seems to be favoring the spot she favored when she was brand new.

Could something be wrong? Is this normal behavior?
 
Could be she's still hungry after 2 pinkies. May need to up it to 3 pinkies or even fuzzies. Sometimes my adults get real active after feeding too an then go into a shed cycle.
 
I don't think that she is big enough to eat fuzzies yet. I will try 3 pinks next time. She is currently under herwater bowl, where she has been for days.
 
She's still cruising about because her instincts teach her to hunt for more mice because there are usually more mice babies in a nest than just two. She doesn't necessarily need more food it's just a natural response. Did she go to the bowl as soon as she calmed down or a day or so later? I know I recently changed up the bedding I use in my viv to eco earth and now mine burrows under her water bowl all the time. It's tight, compact and she knows I won't go after her when she's under there because it's a pain to move her water dish in her current set up. I wouldn't worry to much they're pretty solitary animals and I only see mine if I'm in the office after nightfall. Otherwise she' keeps holed up somewhere in her tank and stays out of sight. I wouldn't worry at all it's just normal behavior.
 
My boy is the exact same way and I had the same concerns (e.g. was I feeding him enough, was the pinky not warmed properly, etc). It is incredibly normal for corns to be active after feeding then get lazy and hiding after digestion. My boy roams for like a hour after feeding and then I don't really see him until it's his next meal time. My boy had me thinking I was a bad mommy and starving him because I thought he was still hungry. But in reality corns have an instinct that they want to keep looking for food because they don't know when they are going to be fed next, so they will eat anything they can find in that one sitting.

Mine looks at me like "okay, fine, I get it, no more" and will go back to his hide like he is pouting LOL.
 
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