zina10 & dr del: HI!! my snake is already 3 years old, i raise her from juvenile til now, i feed russian hamsters for all my full grown snakes, so she is not the first time to handle hamsters as her prey and the hamsters are full grown, she hve been feeding hamsters for 1 year already, the setup is exactly the breeding racks, with just a water bowl and a heat pad with max hot spot 91 fahrenheit, but now i have a new setup since this happened, i added an extra shoe box for her whih is above the heat pad, after 3 days of observing, she stays on top of the shoe box which has the te at least 100 fahrenheit.