Honestly, it mostly just backs up my suspicion that she associates the enclosure specifically with eating. Doesn't it kind of make no sense for her to get "aggressive" ONLY while IN the enclosure, if the problem is removing her from it? Mike has a female low-white piebald who's as mad as a hornet if you as much as move her enclosure, much less take her out. THAT is aggression. People who have met this snake agree that she is not aggressive in general, and I can't see any reason that the enclosure itself would stress her out or make her mad.
I know I don't conform to what every single person, hundreds or even thousands of them or not, happen to preach by; because there is no way TO conform to everyone's opinions. I can't make everyone happy, I simply have to do what is best for my animals, and if there are highly unnecessary risks involved with something, it's just really not a very appealing option to me. Like I said, I'd gladly chance a bite with every misting or water change or poop-inspection, than risk this girl getting hurt or dying because of a stupid chunk of bark mulch.
We could also argue about live vs. pre-killed vs. frozen/thawed for hours and nothing anyone could tell me could convince me to change what I feed my snakes, for a plethora of reasons I could, and would, happily spend hours explaining and discussing.
Okay, so "thousands" of people have fed live with no problems. There have also been people with four-foot snakes who got bitten in the head by a tiny hamster and died minutes later.
There's no benefit, why even risk it? I think we can agree that a lack of appetite is NOT this girl's problem, in any way, shape or form. She'd eat my husky if she could.
"Analog (stickie) guages are highly inaccurate, especially for reading hot spots. I bet that's one of the issues."
I've heard some real horror stories about the digital/probe ones that adjust the temperatures automatically. What would you suggest?
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