Hurray! Elysia ate today!

Sounds normal to me. Sounds like one happy little girl. :)

Ok good. I was kinda nervous seeing as she really hasn't moved from the same spot, that I know of, in like 10 hours or so.

I'm going to get a blacklight now so I dont have to have a normal light all the time.

I got a black light last night and set it up on a wall next to the cage. Its a fluorescent black light like the bar ones ya know? Now I know that Elysia doesn't NEED UV light, but will it hurt her or stress her out if I leave it on all day? Or should I go back and get a normal black light and shove it in my lamp?

https://ssl.adhost.com/noveltylights...?pid=16&step=4

It's KINDA like that, not that exact one. Just so you get an idea.

I'm pretty sure it's okay.

Ok good, cause I think she hated the normal light and she seems to love the fluorescent black light. As soon as i installed it and put it on, she slid up the side of the tank to inspect it, and promptly fell down ^_^

LOL. I use a sterilite storage tub as a quarantine tank. It sits in my bedroom until they're cleared to go into the herp room. I remember when my MBK was in there I got little sleep because I just kept hearing 'thuds" in the middle of the night from him falling all the time-except feeding night and while he was digesting.

I'll take some pictures of the enclosure in a little while its kinda different from before now ^_^

I use a small tupperware thingy to hold Elysia in while I clean her tank. I have paper towels at the bottom as a substrate and she just sits there and waits patiently to go back into the tank.

What a good girl! I tell my snakes (as if they know what I'm saying) that 'housekeeping is here'!

Yeah she is generally a good girl, which is why I was surprised early when she rattled at me. I really wish she would let me handle her for at least a minute or 2. So far I have about a minute total handling cause she gets stressed so quickly and tries to get away. Hope she will be ok tomorrow.

BTW meal number 1 is totally digested from what I can tell ^_^ When can I expect her to shed do you think?

If you knw when she last ate and you're feeding the same size and frequency as the breeders, I'm guessing about 4 weeks from the last shed maybe 6 weeks. It varies. My MBK doesn't rattle at me, but my Cal King does. She's got attitude. I just ignore it and pick her up anyway. Then she stops. Sometimes she'll just start crawling a bit and somtimes she just wraps around my hand for a bit first. Last night when I fed her, she didn't like me being so close, she started rattling at me while she was eating! Then I think (not sure, but I don't know what else the noise could have been) but she kept striking at me through her tub. She's something!