Quote Originally Posted by CORBIN911 View Post
That humidity will not hurt him at all, Youll expect perfect sheds all the time every time, And you wont need any messy substrate you can use plain ol paper towel!

The only caution you need to take with that humidity is that the air temp never drops to cold as that can cause concern for R.I just keep a nice 78+/- cool side and 90+/- and hell be a golden happy boy


Times where they live the humidity jumps up to 90+% so hell be 100% happy!



Secondly at 200g you guys prolly only a few months old unless under fed! most yearlings can get 500-600+ as a male!


As for feeding try to get him onto rats earlier then later (if he keeps declining meals give him the mice till hes more comfortable) but itll save alot of effort when hes 500+ grams and needs 3+mice, vs 1 small rat.

Aswell if he does decline again (offer in 5-7days) make sure the room is dark and just leave the rat on the warm side of the tank, most of the time you'll wake up to a missing rat! Which is what my lav spider girl always does! its annoying but she does eat)
Okay, thank you!

Yeah, by the time our nights get problematic he will have a better setup (right now he's probably fine because I have a heat lamp that I have raised so it doesn't melt the plastic, but it was kind of done on the fly and isn't what I'd want for long-term). For now although outside the temperature dips a bit, the indoor temperature is still in the good zone. Winter will not be so kind.

I'm thinking he is pretty underfed from both Petsmart and his previous owners. He seemed a bit underweight when I got him, but he looks better now.

I'm going to try and transition him to rats when I get a bulk order of them. I'm getting a Brazilian Rainbow Boa who is already eating rats, so I'm going to order both mice and rats in bulk so I still have him covered with mice if he doesn't take rats at all, but hopefully I can transition him. I'll have to make sure the site I'd order them from have a small enough size - I'm not sure the range they do for rats, but I think adult mice might be just a tad too large for him, though hoppers are probably too small. He is at this between stage, I guess.

Yeah, I try to feed him towards evening or leave it overnight in case he is too shy. I'm going to try and feed him again tomorrow night after I scrub his bin really well as I've read that can help with tricky feeders. I'm not sure if he is really being tricky, or he is just still unused to a new schedule or something. His previous owners were really vague on how often they fed him, do this may be more than he is used to or something.