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Re: Help Blaze !
Okay I watched your video and I would really recommend some changed to his cage. First off the substrate, I don't know for sure but it looks like aspen and from what's I've read aspen isn't the bed for BPs because of all the dust, and even if not that it isn't the best for humidity. When you use a glass tank with a screen top and a heat lamp, I have it the same way, the substrate I use is Eco Earth mixed with moss. It does wonders for my humidity and looks pretty nice as well. Also for humidity I would consider putting some tin foil on a part of the cage, leaving only room for the lamp and a opening on the opposite side for ventilation. There are lots of good tutorials online for that. Next the temps, for one anything over 90 is much too high. The temps should be 85 - 90 on the hot side and around 80 on the cold. On that note I would also recommend a thermometer for the cold side and a hydrometef as well. The way I do it is I have a thermometer and hydrometer in one on the hot side and just a regular thermometer on the cold. He also needs at least two hides, one on the cold and one on the hot. His cage is just far too open, I'm sure a lot of this might be due to him feeling so exposed, that's why he is moving around so much and trying to burrow. The hide you have should be fine for him, he should want to ball up in it not stretch out and for ball pythons the smaller the better as far as they are concerned. The light you are using for the lamp is no good either, the constant bright light over them is very stressful, I use a noghtime bulb from petsmart or co, and leave it on at night as well so you can go without the pad underneath as well. If you do still want to use the pad I would only use it on the side the lamp is on, his hot side and have some sort of way to keep an eye on the temperature. Those things are notorious for malfunctioning and burning the poor little things. As for the main problem at hand, feeding one mouse should be fine once a week for a feeding. His food should be no larger then the thickest part of his body. He does look healthy however, he's not overweight or anything like that. Ill try to get a pic and post it on here of my setup sp you can see all the stuff I've been talking about, if I can figure out how to get them to post 
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