Hatchling striking towards pinky, then just hovering over it

[Crawdad]

Your humidity is WAY too high. 75%? it only needs to be between 50 and 60%. I recommend you lower your humidity and increase that 76 degrees to low 80s.

The sizing sounds good, is this his first meal of a rat? That sometimes affects the snake's response.

I wish I knew how to get the humidity lower, it's over 60% in my house itself , and over 75% outside. Alabama is constantly very humid. I've got a fan blowing through the room, I've got it down to the lower 70%s now. Once the outdoor humidity goes down, his cage humidity should. We've had mass amounts of rain over the past 2 weeks, everything is just plain muggy around here. I may need to look into getting a room dehumidifier.

The previous owner was feeding two mouse pinkys each feeding, so I do think that this is the first time he has ecountered a rat pinky. Different smell throwing him off, maybe?