clam down. i live in Houston and we have rats and mice and we get 100 degree weather
I keep live rats for my snake. I buy 4-6 rats a month . guess what every once in a while one one would die, no matter what i did. UNTIL I DID THIS....
Get rid of any wood shaving bedding and go to Walmart and get this stuff called CRITTER CARE cost maybe like 4 bucks for a package of it . Don't get the colored stuff, blue, green and pink or whatever, unless u want to pay almost 3 times that.
mice and rats are susceptible to lung infections from some woods that they use for bedding.. The CRITTER CARE rocks, i have not lost one since.
Keep the water bottle and the food at the same end of the tank cuz thats where they are ganna pee and poop the most. tilt the tank a little to keep the pee down at one end.