New baby BP won't eat

I wonder if any heating pad can have a therma stat hooked up to it . The brand is "zoo med"

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Originally Posted by Vincentleo

I wonder if any heating pad can have a therma stat hooked up to it . The brand is "zoo med"

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Yes.

Edit: By the way, rats are the recommended food source for BPs. Frozen rats are much easier to feed in the long run. If your snake was eating frozen rats before, I'd recommend you keep her on frozen rats now. Not to mention it's the food she's familiar with![/QUOTE]


Just curious, recommended by whom? There was just a thread on here about overfeeding, did you get a chance to read it? No offense intended.

What about over feeding ?

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Originally Posted by thejennabird

Edit: By the way, rats are the recommended food source for BPs. Frozen rats are much easier to feed in the long run. If your snake was eating frozen rats before, I'd recommend you keep her on frozen rats now. Not to mention it's the food she's familiar with!

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The recommended food source is whatever they will eat.

Just a key fact about zoomed UTH.. thermostat is a must.. i tested my 20g tank that is empty now and the temp of the UTH was at 115 degrees... thats why a thermostat is needed

I tested 7 zoo med under tank heating pads, average output was 113.8. That's definitely a little too toasty. Just to clarify, way to hot! Get some sort of control or cook your snake.

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Any heat source that your animal can come into direct contact with should be regulated.

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Originally Posted by PitOnTheProwl

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Any heat source that your animal can come into direct contact with should be regulated.

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THAT'S where my crayons went!!! :rage: :gj:

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Originally Posted by Sonny1318

Just curious, recommended by whom? There was just a thread on here about overfeeding, did you get a chance to read it? No offense intended.

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Originally Posted by PitOnTheProwl

The recommended food source is whatever they will eat.

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Yup, my bad. In the future I'll attempt to word it better. Feeding one rat is frequently more economical and simpler than multiple mice.I personally would still recommend frozen rats to OP because that's what the snake was eating previously and is familiar with. However, if mice are easier for OP and the snake will eat them, no issues. How's that sound instead? I missed the overfeeding thread, can someone link me to it?