Originally Posted by Daybreaker
She is in a 15 gallon tank, using newspapers and paper towels for substrate, she has a warm and cool hide, and a shallow water dish that's big enough for her o bathe in. The sides and back of the tank are covered with black paper so she feels more secure. For temperature I have one of those stick on thermometers on both sides plus a hygrometer, and a temperature probe under the heat mat that covers a little more than 1/3 of the enclosure. I have a heat lamp with a night time blue bulb but so far I haven't been using it because I read that a heat mat is enough and that the lamps dry out the air. The breeder I bought her from was feeding frozen/thawed so that's what I've been doing. I'm not too keen on having to feed live or kill anything myself, I have a hard enough time as it is feeding her the dead ones. It may be preparation or something, but I think I'm doing it right. I have been placing the rat in a bag, putting it in a bowl, and filling the bowl with the hottest water I can get from the tap. When the water cools the first time I fill it again with hot water, and once the rat is soft and warm I feed it to my BP. I don't have feeding tongs so I have been dangling it by the tail. Even when she did eat for me that one time she didn't strike at the rat. She smelled it a little, kind of ignored it, but when I put it down and left it she bit right in. I tried doing that again but she shows no interest now and even avoids the rat when I'm dangling it in front of her, and ignores it completely if I put it down and leave it.
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