Tonight my fiance and I fed Brutice for the first time since we got him. The pet store said they typically feed pinkies to juveniles his size, but we decided to get a baby rat, instead. We weren't sure if the rat we chose had teeth, so my fiance knocked it out first before putting it in Brutice's cage. It took Brutice a minute or two to become interested in the rat, but soon he struck it, constricted himself around it, and shoved it in his mouth head first. It was a really amazing thing to watch. Afterwards we screwed a black UV light into his heat lamp and he has been very active ever since. I can tell he's much more comfortable in his cage now that he has eaten and the black light has been installed. Should we be feeding him once a week? Also, is there a particular wattage we should be using in the heat lamp?