Well, after a hard days work, I finished things off last night with another feeding attempt.
She's almost 11 months old, 27+ inches long and was only eating live at the reptile store. I had our first feeding success last week with a F/T mouse.
Last night was another step in the right direction. A strike, a wrap and another mouse down the hatch. I'm going to go with the "third times a charm" approach on this however. Even though I'm very optimistic I have heard of snakes that F/T and then for some reason stop. I'm think if I score 3 in a row I'm on the right track. Once again, some fine coaching with the pre-feed procedures helped, and I actually have a system.
We're still not hooked up to the Herpstat II and have been doing well with the lights and the undersized UTH. I was going to change it all today, but I'm thinking Sunday is better as I don't want to upset digestion with husbandry upgrades that may take a little adjustment time.
Again, and I'm not trying to be a suckup; I'd like to thank Aaron The Serpent Merchant for all his advice. EVERYTHING he's passed along to me has worked!
Also Mike and some others have has good pointers.
My son was sleeping and missed his girl doing her thing last night but he was happy she ate.
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