Update on Skull. My husband got our little guy all set up in a better place. We have a larger tank now, with two hides, a stable water dish and a piece of reptile driftwood. Skull has been all up in that piece of driftwood! The tank has a 16 watt UTH under the hot side with a thermostat. We also have a heat lamp above the hot side. We live in Michigan and the ambient temp in our house in the winter will be 68 during the day and 55 at night so we want to make sure we can keep him nice and toasty. Right now, his hot side is 87 to 88, his cool side is 75 to 76. He is currently hanging out in his cool side hide. My husband bought an automatic humidifier that sprays every 6 hours. The humidity in his tank is a little high right now, around 80% because hubby put a mat over the UTH, then covered that with substrate and sprayed it down. It had been running around 50 to 60 percent.

Skull's reaction to all this? He doesn't seem stressed and in fact took his first fuzzy tonight. To be more accurate, he zapped that thing fast and polished it off in short order. We're feeding him every 3 or 4 days right now based on his behavior. He is pooping on a regular basis, regularly drinking water and yesterday, he farted at my husband. Good boy! His eyes are clear and his scales are clean and bright. He seems to have settled into routines, hanging out in, or very close to, sometimes on top of, his hide during the day. He gets active around the time I come home from work for a few hours, settles down again, then gets active in the early hours in the morning.

It seems we have a happy snake.