"Gecko" snake????

[dance2water]

I just got a Taiwanese beauty snake. I put him into a 10 galllon aquarium with a standard screen top. I put his traveling container and the shavings in it into the tank to give a familiar place to hide.

I go to check on him after a while and I look around the tank and at his shippping container and don't see him. I have the top secured with clips and two bricks, so I am sure he couldn't get out.

I finally see that he is pressed against the top screen around the edge of his tank; seeming to defy gravity. I check again a little later and he has crawled a little further around the top of the tank. This is carrying aboreal behavior to the extreme!!!

I guess tomorrow I have to get him a branch<G>.


Has anyone else had a snake that can 'cling' to the screen top of its tank?