Wow, we really messed up.

[Garnet]

By the way, does anyone have a recommendation on a humidity gauge?

[Crazymonkee]

Walmart sells acurite indoor/ outdoor thermometers, they are $12 they measure 2 temps plus humidity. Put the probe on the hotspot, and the thermometer itself on the cool side. It'll measure it all

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[bcr229]

We've been wondering about that. I've read that the food should be the same circumference as the largest part of his body. The pinky we fed him just didn't seem like enough. I read that I can actually feed him two if I wait a half hour between first and second feeding. We were going to try that on Monday since we know he'll take pinkies but not if he'll take other food. Maybe if he stays calm, we should try feeding on Sunday?

I found this handy chart on another thread, but my search-fu is week so I'm putting up a link to one in my own photobucket account. Two mouse pinkies is still too small a meal, your guy needs to be on something bigger. Figure juveniles need 10-15% of their body weight per meal.

[Garnet]

Oh, that's a great chart! Thank you, bcr 229. That is much better than engaging in SWAGs.

[Garnet]

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.

[Surrealle]

Very cool, glad he's doing well!

[Borgy76]

Man I can't wait to witness my first snake fart. Yes I am immature and find farts funny still.

[CD CONSTRICTORS]

Man I can't wait to witness my first snake fart. Yes I am immature and find farts funny still.

Behind the fart generally comes something else you will not want to witness when holding your snake.

[Borgy76]

Behind the fart generally comes something else you will not want to witness when holding your snake.

Oh, i can only imagine. Kind of like when my labs do it, it's funny until the stench hits your nostrils.

[Monty the BP]

Oh, i can only imagine. Kind of like when my labs do it, it's funny until the stench hits your nostrils.

OMG