I've had this baby normal since November 14th of 2015. When I got him he weighed just about 62 grams. He is now about 68 grams (so he's gaining weight, just not as much as I'd like). He's been a very inconsistent eater; eating on and off week by week. I first started him off of the pinkie mice (4 or 5 grams), just trying to get him to eat and he took one 3 days after we got him which I was glad. Unfortunately my luck has not been so good since. I moved up to small mice (about 12 grams) and he seems to dislike those and kind of looks scared of them. He seems to go anywhere from 1 to 2 weeks without eating and then ferociously takes a meal, then repeats. I want to try to have him feel comfortable with the small mice but he seems to take the pinkie mice easier? It's hard to tell since I haven't had him all that long. I've been feeding him frozen and thawed.
Set-Up:
Starting from the left side
I have a small rock hide and a water bowl. On the wall I have a thermometer to measure the hot side ambient. In the middle I have the climbing thingy. On the right I have the larger rock hide (I won in a expo raffle) for the cool side. On that side of the wall I have a hydrometer/thermometer combo. All on top of paper towel as the substrate. The lid is have plastic (the right side), and half metal mesh (on the left side). I have paper towels to keep humidity in and a heating lamp. Under the tank I have a UTH and the probe for that is on the INSIDE of the tank, between the paper towel and glass bottom. The water bowl is covering the probe a bit because the heat lamp causes the probe to read much hotter that it is. And the water bowl absorbs most of the heat lamp to provide more humidity. He seems to utilize both sides of the heat gradient so I don't think the temperatures are off but I may be wrong.
The UTH probe is consistently around 86ish, the hot side thermometer reads about the same, and the cool side thermomter reads about 10 degrees less. The humidity ranges between 45% and 65% depending on when I spray.
Thanks for any help!
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