Hello from New Jersey

[Fiyn]

Sweet pied, i too am looking into gettiong one. 1. You should be fine switching his hides if you wish to, you can always put the logs back if he doesnt like the new ones. 2. They only flick their tongues when they smell food, i usually see mine only do it on feeding days. 3. I would wait a week or 2 before you offer his first meal. Personally i would offer in a week and if he refused id wait 2 weeks to offer again. You could also wait until you fix your husbandry issues before offering so he doesnt get a habit of refusing. Are you planning on feeding live or f/t?

I was planning on feeding f/t, as that's the diet he was on before I picked him up. If he hasn't had a meal since January, I don't want to risk prolonging his fast with a new source of food. I've handled snakes and have fed f/, before, so I'm very familiar with process of doing it.

I just went out today a purchased a thermostat (I've ordered another digital one as this one just has a "hot" and "cold" knob that just isn't to my liking). I've purchased a new heating mat and positioned it on the bottom of his habitat. I'm finally got the humidity able to stay in, but now it's a bit too high. I was told by a friend who has owned many reptiles to place a damp towel over one end of the cage to keep the humidity up while I was at work. Now the humidity is at about 70, and it's not really dropping.

I have the heat mat hooked up to the thermostat, but the lamp I have is not. The lamps a 100w blue light, but my thermometer isn't reaching the temps I want either. It's currently sitting at 82.6 for the basking temp, and about 78 for the cool temp and seems to shift a few degrees up or down every so often.

This is the setup is now have for George. If I have placed any of the thermometers is wrong places, or anything like that, please advise so I can fix it.

The good news is I have switched out of the hides for the rock type hide you can see on the left. He's taken a liking to that and has hidden himself away again. I'm just really worried that I'm not going to be able to get his temps and humidity levels right. Unfortunately a lot of the temperature control in my home is not under my control. Crazy landlord type stuff. If anyone has any advice on the husbandry aspects, please feel free to share. The money isn't an issue, I'm just trying to keep his stress levels down and get everything settled as quickly as I can.