Quote Originally Posted by CrystalRose View Post
I know how you feel. I had that happen a few times with my first BP. It's gross and definitely smelly. It was feeding night here too tonight. Mine wasn't as bad as yours but I had cleaned Ellas tank earlier tonight. I had it all cleaned up,plants perfect water crystal clear,etc. Well,I fed her and she decided to drag her rat through the water bowl a few times so then I had a bowl of brownish water filled with Eco-Earth. She knocked over every plant and decoration in the tank readjusting her rat. So now her tank basically looks like a hurricane went through. My husband is now calling her Hurricane Ella lol.

I changed her water once she went back to her hide but I figure the decorations can wait until tomorrow. I really need to learn NOT to bother cleaning her tank until a day or so after she eats lol.
Haha, she did that with the second mouse too! She dragged it EVERYWHERE while she was re-adjusting. Me and my roommates were watching and joking about it... "This is thisssss side of my tank, and then here's thissssss side of the tank, and oh, look this is my pooollll... lets go for a swim before I show you that side of my tank." (of course dragging the mouse guts EVERYWHERE it looked like a murder scene) She finally finished it in the water, so I don't even know what was going on in her snake head. I had her on aspen so the clean up wasn't that bad, but I just switched to eco-earth and I'm going to be adding plants tomorrow... so next feeding time might be a LOT more fun in the clean up.

Quote Originally Posted by treeboa View Post
The lamp probably concentrated the heat on one part of the mouse's skin, causing it to weaken and burst open. You can avoid itby using a heat pad or soaking in a bag in warm water instead. I had this happen many times before I figured this out. There hasn't always been an internet with its good sources of info like this site, LOL!
Yeah, that's what I figured happened- I put the second mouse underneath quickly to warm it back up... shouldn't have done that haha.
I've had explosions with mice in water too with snake 1 (admittedly, pinkies and fuzzys with thinner skin)- maybe my tap is freakishly hot? I had more luck with putting under the lamp, which is why I went back to it- although part of the reason before was I had a picky KSB who didn't like to eat and thought the smell would get a feeding response- never worked. I don't think I need to entice this one with feeding times hahaha. She eats like a pig.
I'll try the heat pad though and luke room/room temperatures to thaw- maybe a quick warm up with the lamp, idk D: she strikes so fast, I wonder how warm they really need to be.