Baby Dumeril Boa feeding help

Is it ok for me to think that i can get ambient temps right in a small tub with UTH only? or do i need to change things up and get some additional heating?

Dums like to run cool, 75-85*F is typical. If yours is at 98*F it's too hot and you need to dial back the thermostat on the UTH.

That is, of course, assuming you have a thermostat. If you don't then you need to get one for each UTH. Until you do then you need to unplug them, as unregulated they can get hot enough to burn your snakes.

Dums are ground-dwellers and in the wild they burrow and wait for prey to wander by. If yours is buried with only the tip of the nose showing, it is hunting.

The dum ate last night!!!! whoo hooo. perhaps it will be easier from now on. thanks guys!

Shoot the terrible happened. So on the second feeding, now that my Dumeril is finally stryking, the mouse was in a position to bite at the snake, even though i was there with tongs to block most of it I wasn't quick enough. the snake got bit on its eye it looks and has a crease or s split in the scale over its eye. The snake appears unaffected by it, and you can see its eyeball still moving around under the bite mark. since snakes eyes have scales over them, it is possible this is just a superficial thing and the scale will be replaced at the next shedding?