My snakes have all endured a switch around as I had to separate two corns a two days ago.
My question actually pertains to a prairie king snake. I had to put him in a very tiny viv for a day (he's still very young though) while I set up a new tank I got today (one of my corns that needed to be separated got moved to the king's viv which i cleaned out and lined with fresh bedding).
Since the setup, I've put my king back into what was his old viv, but I didn't think about changing the bedding to fresh stuff as it was done a day ago... but, as I said, it had one of my corns in there for that day.
It could be the switch, and the combination of being in a small space recently, but I went near the glass of the king snakes viv and it absolutely freaked out, striking the glass more than once. He has never shown even the slightest bit of aggressive behaviour before, and I'm wondering if anyone could suggest why it's happening now?
I should mention that when I picked him up from the tiny viv he didn't strike. When he struck at the glass i was trying to scratch off a smudge on the outside... maybe my finger also looked like an offending snake.
Anyway I'll watch him and see if this subsides but any comments/suggestions are appreciated. I'll clean out the tank again in a couple of days but I'd rather not keep moving him around if he's obviously stressed.
My question actually pertains to a prairie king snake. I had to put him in a very tiny viv for a day (he's still very young though) while I set up a new tank I got today (one of my corns that needed to be separated got moved to the king's viv which i cleaned out and lined with fresh bedding).
Since the setup, I've put my king back into what was his old viv, but I didn't think about changing the bedding to fresh stuff as it was done a day ago... but, as I said, it had one of my corns in there for that day.
It could be the switch, and the combination of being in a small space recently, but I went near the glass of the king snakes viv and it absolutely freaked out, striking the glass more than once. He has never shown even the slightest bit of aggressive behaviour before, and I'm wondering if anyone could suggest why it's happening now?
I should mention that when I picked him up from the tiny viv he didn't strike. When he struck at the glass i was trying to scratch off a smudge on the outside... maybe my finger also looked like an offending snake.
Anyway I'll watch him and see if this subsides but any comments/suggestions are appreciated. I'll clean out the tank again in a couple of days but I'd rather not keep moving him around if he's obviously stressed.
