Hi,

We have quite a good caresheet that should help a bit.

There are a few things I can see that could be done to make the snake feel more secure ( that's the main reason we see that stops them eating ).

The good news is it doesn't need to cost a lot of money.

If you cover the back and both sides of the outside of the tank with aquarium background (mainly because it looks nicer than card ) and change the hide for something a little smaller and darker (they love to smooth themselves in tight dark places ) and put identicle hides at both ends then that will help a lot.

Now for the bit that might get a little expensive. But it depends on the answers to a few questions.

How are you heating the enclosure for him and what are you using to control the heat sources?

It would be areally good idea to replace that dial thermometer as they are notoriously inaccurate and it is measuring the temp in the wrong place anyway.

We recomend the digital acurite weatherstation with probe that you can find at wallmart for around $10 - the base unit of that reads temp and humidity and the probe reads temp.

We generally put the base unit on the cool end of the tank at ground level to get a rough ambient and humidity reading and use the probe to doublecheck the temps inside the hides (both hot and cool ) where the snake will be spending most of its time.

It makes life a lot easier when you can feel confident in the temps you are measuring when setting up the tank.

Once we know the temps and heating details we can hopefully help you get everything spot on in no time.

**edit**

Yup, it's official - I'm so slow I may have invented time travel. I also managed to spell my own name wrong. Now where did I leave that bed?

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