Quote Originally Posted by Big Wayne View Post
first off, thank you for all the advise.

His hiding spots seemed to be pretty snug. He used to have this hollowed out skull that was ment to go in aquariums thy we just put in for decoration and he LOVED hiding in there. We took it out because we were actually scared he would get stuck in there, and we couldn't get him out of it if we wanted to. We had to wait for him to come out.

I am using the stick on round thermostat/ hygrometer. I'll definately get a wired one from home deep. I had a feeling 3 heat sources was a bit extreme. It's wierd though, the UTH never seemed to give off any ambient heat. All it seemed to do was make the ground warm. It seemed to be alot harder to heat the tank than I read in books and on the net.

I just bumped up to feeding him an Arctic Mice brand "small mouse" (the one that is a step up from fuzzies) every 5 days instead of once a week. It does make the most sense that he is hungry. Is there a good rule of thumb on snake to prey size proportion or something? Or should I just give him bigger prey and see if he'll eat it? Would he try to eat something too big for him to handle? I do refrain from handling him on or after feeding day.
So what kind of hides do you have now? Picture perhaps?

The UTH does only heat surface temperature. The lamps are used to increase ambient temperatures. As long as your ambient temps are above 75* and you have a hot spot (surface) temp around 92*, your snake will be fine.

If you can, purchase a gram kitchen scale you can weigh your snake and track its growth. You can also use it to determine how much you need to feed him. I feed 10-15% of the snakes body weight until they are 1500g.