How lazy is normal?

[Nafun]

I have a milk snake and a kingsnake as well.

[HMT]

My BP enjoys just staying in his hide(s) all the time unless he is hungry. However he is very curious about things near and in his cage, and will always come out to look at changes I make, and will often poke his head out of the hide if there is movement near his tank. For a while I thought maybe he was eternally hungry, but that behavior continued through his winter fasting time, when he was refusing food. If I took him out of the tank... he's off! Places to explore, things to see, and don't you dare try to put me back in that tank!

[Paradise]

Originally Posted by HMT

... If I took him out of the tank... he's off! Places to explore, things to see, and don't you dare try to put me back in that tank!

I have the very same problem with my Red tail, he is not as active in the enclosure. He will have a look around now and then and go back to his corner. (He spends his days in the right back corner of the enclosure. Never in his hides). If I take him out then thats it he wants to go everywhere and see everything but trying to put him back is no easy task. One day my wife helping me to get him back in and he struck at her. Luckily he didn't bite.
Point being he would rather be out than be stuck in an enclosure and he has a big enclosure so its not even that its too small for him or anything.