Thanks for the reply Crowfingers.
His last meal was 2 weaned rats at 30g each. I will be feeding him the weaned rats or a combination of weaned/small to try and stay within the 10-15%. I made the mistake of getting 25 weaned rats as I didn't think they would all be 30-35g each. But, he seems to enjoy them so I will feed them to him until they're gone. The cage was delivered to my house in Maine about a week ago (pre-assembled) and it's been sitting there since. The only adhesive would have been from the LED lights. I previously aired those out and made sure there was no smell after installing them in the cage earlier in the day. He has the same LED lights in his tub (his tub is green with some holes in it and i put a small, dim led light in there so i can peek in and see...I can change it to quite a few different colors) and they didn't bother him. Everything was cleaned with Chlorohexadine solution (about 3 tsp/25oz of water) and then dried. I used light soap and rinsed his hides and water bowl as well. As far as the lotion goes, I do wear cocoabutter lotion, but I believe I have washed before handling. I wouldn't quote me on that. I am scratching my head with this as I thought he would thoroughly enjoy the new enclosure and the temperature seems much easier to control. Although, I think I am going to swap to flexwatt for belly heat and use the RHP to control the ambient. It doesn't seem to want to heat inside the hide that well without increasing the temp of the entire enclosure higher than I want it to be. I have swapped back to his old water bowl as well. Not sure if there is anything wrong with his new/bigger one, but I know the old one works.
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