thanks yeah i know i have never done so much research...i am also a member of another forum and i have been asking questions left and right...it would just kill me if i did something to hurt one of my snakes... the only thing that is going on right now that i am a little worried about is that one of my snake has not wanted to eat...we are going to try again tonight though...we tried about a week ago, i wanted to give her more time to get used to her new home...so i have not really messed with her at all only to clean check levels and change water... i really hope she bites this time. she seems to be doing fine though she still looks kinda fat... she will not take f/t not even when brained...and she will not take prekilled... so tonight we are going to try a live mouse...i hope that gets her going again. she was eating rats before we got her but i dont want to risk injury so we are going with a mouse or two if she will eat them