Quote Originally Posted by bkhuff1s View Post
I keep by current breeding pair housed together. Reasoning

The female is by far the most chill snake I own. And the male, well he's very squirrelly. If he's in with the female I can open the cage and pull him out. He usually will only freak out when I first touch him. However, if the female is already removed he'll race around as soon as I open the top of the enclosure.

I've thought this might have something to do with cage design, because in the wild predators attack from above. So if I had a door, I'm thinking they would be a little calmer, I haven't had the opportunity to test this hypothesis yet though.

I believe this topic was discussed some time ago.
I have almost all of my snakes housed in front opening enclosures. They are much more calm. They are so calm they will be sleeping on the small ledge infront of their door and won't wake until I touch them. Then it's a slow look like "I'm tired, let me sleep"