Feeding Question

[Ezekiel285]

Yeah we have little heaters in our room that we can turn on/leave on throughout the day to raise our ambient temps in our rooms (where the snakes are). I check the temps in the room throughout the day and then turn off/on the heater as necessary so that my "cool" side stays at a good temp but I can't always be all up in my roommate's room checking things out so I just give him advice when I feel it's necessary and check things out when I get permission to. :/

He read that a snake can die from ingesting too much aspen and is now VERY uncomfortable feeding her on aspen. I used to be worried too but found out that as long as the rodent I was feeding was nice and dry there was a very low chance of the aspen being ingested. He doesn't seem very comforted by that fact though. There's only so much I can do as it's not my snake but I just wish he would take in all the factors instead of concentrating on his worries and trying to push things into happening.

Gotcha, well tell your room mate that they are risking giving their snake RI which will lead to expensive vet bills. And i mean if its not eating you could try the separate enclosure again, but really there's no reason to feed in a separate container. Tell him to put paper down over the aspen if he is that uncomfortable. I mean snakes eat stuff like that in the wild and are fine, it would take a lot of aspen to do damage.