saturnascends
04-22-17, 04:10 PM
Hello all!
Things are going pretty well over here with our two kingsnakes. They are both eating well for me and have shed succesfully. However I've been wondering if there is anything I can do to enhance/improve their enclosures. More specifically for our California.
Lazarus (the Cali) is housed in the left terrarium, which is larger than Balthazar's (the MBK). Since we got Lazarus first, I assumed bigger was better and I should spend the money on a home he can live more of his life in. Now this may be just personality differences between the two, but Lazarus is pretty damn shy even after living with us for a couple months. He is usually hiding and if he's out exploring and you come in the room, he is very cautious and usually will retreat. He hasn't been handled much because I don't want to stress him out. I get this is kind of normal snake behavior... but Balthazar on the other hand is Mr. Personality and generally likes to come out (though he's still only handled a couple times a week). I got to thinking - could Lazarus feel more "scared" because we don't have enough cover going on in his enclosure? As you can see, they've both got the vine/rock/black hide combo going. It seems to make B happy enough. But perhaps there is something else I can add to make L feel more comfortable? More rocks? Branches? Fake vines? Any suggestions would be welcome!
Things are going pretty well over here with our two kingsnakes. They are both eating well for me and have shed succesfully. However I've been wondering if there is anything I can do to enhance/improve their enclosures. More specifically for our California.
Lazarus (the Cali) is housed in the left terrarium, which is larger than Balthazar's (the MBK). Since we got Lazarus first, I assumed bigger was better and I should spend the money on a home he can live more of his life in. Now this may be just personality differences between the two, but Lazarus is pretty damn shy even after living with us for a couple months. He is usually hiding and if he's out exploring and you come in the room, he is very cautious and usually will retreat. He hasn't been handled much because I don't want to stress him out. I get this is kind of normal snake behavior... but Balthazar on the other hand is Mr. Personality and generally likes to come out (though he's still only handled a couple times a week). I got to thinking - could Lazarus feel more "scared" because we don't have enough cover going on in his enclosure? As you can see, they've both got the vine/rock/black hide combo going. It seems to make B happy enough. But perhaps there is something else I can add to make L feel more comfortable? More rocks? Branches? Fake vines? Any suggestions would be welcome!