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jaw during eating?
Hi all,
With some additional heat, no thanks to the problems with the UTHs i was having, my dude has now picked up his eating habits... and how! I've also put him back to mice, and he's taking 2 adults one feeding, then 3 adults the next a 9 days later! I now have a fairly strong day bulb, a night infrared bulb, and a ceramic heat bulb in the middle to keep the cold end of the tank warm, and a thermometer that is telling me the temps are good!
So, i first noticed this a few years ago, and i haven't thought to look again to see if it still happens. I will next feeding... but, I know that bp's jaws will stretch to accomodate the large food, but it looked like the middle of the bottom jaw was somewhat separated. So, when he was swallowing the prey and moving his jaw around a bit to manipulate it, it looked like the left and right side of his bottom jaw were not really connected, although perhaps it was just the skin stretching differently on his lip? After he closed his mouth, until he yawned after eating, his bottom jaw wasn't really sitting flat up against the top.
part of the natural process, or not? A couple times he has hit the glass pretty hard when striking for the prey, might he have broken it? I now feed him on the tiled floor, because he one got his face stuck in the carpet after missing the prey, lol.
Thanks
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