So last weekend I purchased a BP at a local herp expo. I had done a little research beforehand so I knew somewhat of what I was getting into. He is about 20in long and 59g. I bought him from someone who seemed to be a reputable breeder. When I got him home I put him in his new enclosure and he seemed to be fine. I have had trouble keeping it at a good temperature. I orginally placed a heating light over the screened side of the lid and a heating pad on the back side of the tank. (I had placed it on the underside originally but it got too hot and didn't heat the tank properly.) He seemed to be happy for the most part (or so I think) spending most of his in his hide and sometimes coming out to bask under the bulb. The humidity though was only about 50%. With the heat pad on the back wall temps were 82 ambient on the cool side, 91 ambient on the warm side and about 88 on the floor of the warm side. However the part of the log on which he liked to bask was about 98. So my plan was to ditch the heating light (60w purple) and just put the heating pad under the warm side. I have done that but the cage is ambient at about 78 on the warm and 76 on the cool while the floor under that pad is about 90 (I have it on a dimmer and have turned it down all the way.) He has also spent the past 5 hours, since I made the change, just moving around his cage so I am guessing he might not be happy about something. Would it be best just to put the heating back the way it was? or maybe something different?
One last thing he has not even yet for me and I have heard this can be normal. I bought him last weekend and the breeder told me that she had fed him a week before I got him. I tried to feed him f/t(what the breeder had been feeding him) last weds and he didn't eat so I tried again last night, still didn't eat. He hasn't eaten in two weeks and given his size when should I start worrying and when should I try to feed him again next?
Here are pictures of him and his enclosure before I moved the heating pad. After I removed the heating pad from the back I did cover it with black foam core. Also anything else you notice that I should change please let me know.
Here is the place he liked to sit which got to about 98.
This last pic he seems to like doing this but he fell a couple of times so I attached it lower should I worry about him hurting himself doing this.
Thanks
Reply With Quote