Our 10 month sweetie pie normal switched over beautifully from live to ft, but every now and then Millie's aim will be off, and she will veer off from her strike toward her rat and head toward her heat lamp instead. We figured she was just confused by the heat source, so we've been turning it off and moving it away from her tank during feeding. Millie is a little fussy about the temp of her rat, so we use a heat gun to make sure it's right around 95F, since she'll hesitate/ignore it if under 90F.
Last night we fed her and she took her rat like a champ, even though she's in deep shed. Millie was coiled around it and we put the lamp back and left her to eat in privacy. A couple minutes later I heard multiple banging noises coming from the tank and went back to find she'd dropped the rat and had struck instead at the lamp and managed to hook a tooth on the screen. She got loose before I could figure out how to help her.
Obviously we'll be keeping the lamp away until she's got the rat completely down from now on, but is this normal? I checked her today (even though she's completely blue and her eyes are milky white) and her mouth looks fine. Should she see a vet to have her mouth checked out?
Edit: Oh, and she ate the rat afterward without a problem.
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