New BP owner! Howdy!

[GoBoilers]

Hey All!

I've been lurking around here for about a month trying to absorb as much practical experience that I can in preparation for the arrival of my first BP! I've raised several types of reptiles over the years, but fell in love with BPs at the first clinic I worked for a few years ago (I'm a vet tech)...one of my co-workers brought in his normal female and it was love at first sight!

I started my research back then and came across the piebald morph and immediately had my heart set on one...well, fast-forward a few years (and a few price drops) and the stars finally aligned so-to-speak! I took delivery of my little female pied a few weeks ago and I couldn't be happier!

Anyway! Just wanted to say "hey" and thank ya'll for a great site...in addition to the numerous books I've read, this site has been an invaluable tool!

Quick cute story: Up until a week ago, I had been keeping 'Betty' on newspaper until I switched over to cypress to boost the humidity in her enclosure...However, I left a small piece of newspaper under her favorite hide as she likes to grab her prey and swallow it within the safety of her hideout (she eats f/t) and I didn't want to take the chance of her accidentally ingesting the substrate. So today I decided to take away her piece of newspaper (or, apparently, "safety blanket" as I found out) in order to mist the substrate while she goes through her first shed with me to increase the humidity in her hide. Well, typically, when I'm putting her back into her enclosure all I have to do is show her the entrance to her hide and she slides right in...however, when I went to show her the entrance after taking out her newspaper, she tenatively poked her head into the hide, looked around for a second then looked up at me like, "I'm not going in there, there's DIRT!" So I put her down, put her newspaper back underneath her hide, showed her that I had done this...and she slid right in like, "That's better!" Sweet girl...