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    Looks good! Hmm, I use a light dimmer for my UTH, it works fine. I aslo spent several days before hand measuring and marking to make sure it is reliable. You want the bottom of the warm side, without substrate, to feel slightly warm. if it feels hot to you it is broiling to a snake.

    Leave him for a few days and don't mess with him. Buy a small rat, and after a few nights if he is out hunting, place it in the cage and supervise.
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    Re: New Owners here!

    Quote Originally Posted by Capray View Post
    Looks good! Hmm, I use a light dimmer for my UTH, it works fine. I aslo spent several days before hand measuring and marking to make sure it is reliable. You want the bottom of the warm side, without substrate, to feel slightly warm. if it feels hot to you it is broiling to a snake.

    Leave him for a few days and don't mess with him. Buy a small rat, and after a few nights if he is out hunting, place it in the cage and supervise.
    She said he just ate last Friday and she only feed him once a month and on that meal he would eat 5-6 live mice.

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    Wow that is terrible. They should be offered food at least every 7-10 days.

    As for your temperature spike it was probably caused by your heat lamp slowly heating up the top of the hide. For now I would place your thermometer probe on top of the hide and adjust the heat lamp until it is at a safe temperature.

    Most likely the temperature inside the hide wasn't neat as high but this is still something to get fixed ASAP.
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    Re: New Owners here!

    Quote Originally Posted by The Serpent Merchant View Post
    Wow that is terrible. They should be offered food at least every 7-10 days.

    As for your temperature spike it was probably caused by your heat lamp slowly heating up the top of the hide. For now I would place your thermometer probe on top of the hide and adjust the heat lamp until it is at a safe temperature.

    Most likely the temperature inside the hide wasn't neat as high but this is still something to get fixed ASAP.
    Since he is so used to eating 5-6 mice at a time, what should i try and get? He has only ate live and she said he refused to eat frozen/thawn

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    And what would be an acceptable temperature on top of the hide? If it is in an acceptable range my guess would be that ambient temp would probably drop a degree or two.

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    Try to get it to 95, that is a safe temperature as long as the entire hot side isn't that hot. As long as there is a basking site of approxamatly 90 degrees the ambiant temp in the entire cage can be closer to 80.

    I would start out with a few adult mice just to get him started. Then I would try to switch him over to rats (that way you can feed 1 or 2 larger rats vs 5-6 mice)
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    Re: New Owners here!

    Quote Originally Posted by mrSocks View Post
    I checked the top of his hide, where i assumed he would be baskin..
    Keep in mind these guys are nocturnal and won't just be sitting around basking in the heat during the day. If he his, then he's not happy about something.

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    I haven’t seen him basking yet, mostly just chilling in his hide, occasionally coming out for a drink and sniff. then back in his hide. But does come out at night and I have notice he does like this voo doo dance where he rubs his belly on top of the tank. I have gotten the top of the rock to 99 degrees does that seem acceptable?

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    95 is the hottest I'm personally comfortable with.
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    I have it hovering around 94-96 on top of his hide. but the actual temp of the air is 80. but I am headed to the store to see if he will eat. I’m just curious. How do I know he is actually hungry? I just now cleaned out his water bowl and he kinda came at me flickering his tongue and being a little weird ha ha. when the lid is off he comes out of his hide but any time the lid is on he just hunkers down.

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    Well my boy just ate 5 adult live mice and he is still hungry ha ha. 5 was all i bought so I’m assuming its a good thing he is eating like this. But I will try and get him to eat 2 rats on the 25th. Where would I go about buying them, cause the store I bought these feeder mice was the only place that sold them and they didnt have an feeder rats, but i guess I could just get the pet rats.

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