Or possibly Ms... hasn't been probed yet.



He's the one in front of the two aliens.

I don't really have any questions, but here's a bunch of rambling to consider in case anybody has recommendations.

Had him for a week now. He's in a 20g glass tank which I set up with correct temperatures before getting him. Currently I'm at 83/92 on temps (using the digital thermometers) with an inside temperature of 84, which is pretty much also the temperature in the room right now. Humidity is a little bit of a struggle - he's going into shed and I think is near the end of the blue stage, so I've been trying to keep it in the 70-80% range. I have some moss in there now, but I think I'll go ahead and make the DIY humidifier tomorrow.



The sides of the cage are insulated with styrofoam sheets, and I put up a forest type background as the plain white was pretty boring. Temps are controlled by the ZooMed thermostat with the cool side on a dimmer which is controlled also by the thermometer. The heat lamp I haven't been using much as it's been pretty warm lately, so keeping the ambient cage temp up hasn't been a problem.

The top is screen, which is covered with two 11x14 sheets of plexiglass wich I found at Home Depot in the plexiglass section. Great stuff as I didn't have to cut it or anything. And I can easily slide them to adjust how much of an opening there is in the top.

There are currently four hides... originally I had two, which are the tree things near the front. I quickly realized those are waaay too large, so I added the two half logs near the back. He has since been moving between the two of those. He was burrowing beneath the water bowl, but I fixed that by removing the Repti Bark substrate from beneath the bowl so there is no place to burrow.

The day I got him, I left two F/T fuzzies in the cage overnight. The next day there was just one, which I threw away. I'll be putting in the other two I got tonight, and will then purchase the small mice as the fuzzies seem a bit small for him.

Right now I think I have pretty much everything I need with the exception of Provent-A-Mite and Chlorhexidine, both of which are on order from MG Reptiles. No signs of mites, but I'll give the cage a preventitive treatment to be sure. Also, I need a large bottle of hand sanitizer so I don't have to keep using up all my hand soap each time I do something in the cage.

He's only been handled three times - once at the store, and twice each time I found him under the water bowl. I plan to start handling sessions after he's finished with this shed he's building up to. So that should give him probably a good week and a half to have adjusted to this new environment.

No doo-doo or urates yet.

Any questions or suggestions?

Thanks