1st Hungry Strike

[patientz3ro]

I keep all of my snakes at 84° average, no cool side no hotspot, but that is also in a thermostatically controlled heated room. Colder species snakes on the floor level, and ones that require higher temps on top. In a singular enclosure your temps may not be high enough ambient to allow proper digestion, and snakes that know it's too cold to digest won't eat. If your ambients are in the 70's, and your warm side is only mid-upper 80's, it may be too cold for them.


I like my Dubstep to go Wop Wop Wop Wop

I can't remember where I saw it, but I read something about a "greenhouse effect" when there's no thermal gradient. Supposedly it's unhealthy, but I can't remember specifics. Have you heard anything to that effect, or had any issues?

I'm assuming you haven't had issues or you wouldn't do it, but I'm curious.

She ate some time last night. I have been using a separate tub to feed her, but all of a sudden this wasn't working. I know there are mixed opinions on using a feeding tub, but I use cypress mulch for bedding and have always been afraid of her accidentally ingesting wood chips.
Anyways I left the thawed and warmed rat in her every day tank all night and she eventually ate it. She must have gotten tired of crawling over it? LOL

Glad she's eating, but if you're concerned about her investing cypress, put the prey on a paper plate.

Personally though, I've always used cypress, and never had major issues. I've had to take substrate out of hee mouth before she swallowed it, but she's so laid back... I can put my mouse smelling hands in her tank whenever. Never been nipped. Your snake could be different though.

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