Hi! First of all, I have learned SO MUCH from stalking your forum. I am so glad that you exist! We just got a 3 month old bp a week ago from a breeder. We attempted to feed him yesterday but he did not eat. I'm sure he's stressed out...he's in a 40 gallon breeder tank which we know is big and we held him even though we knew it was best not to so early...we just for some reason couldn't help it. He's been moving all around a lot after dark. So I think the right thing to do is to put crumpled newspaper in to fill the empty space? We did that this afternoon and are not even going to open the lid to his tank for...how long do you think? When should we attempt to feed him again? And when we do, should we just drop the rat pup in and continue to ignore him for how much longer? How much damage have we caused?

He was being fed live rat pups, but we weren't able to find them anywhere nearby so we tried thawed. We warmed it up.

Thanks for any help you can give us!

FYI, we are using newspaper for the bottom of the tank and have a UTH on a thermostat with warm side at 90 and cool side at 77-80 (having a hard time keeping it at 80). 2 identical hides on either side plus a few shoe boxes with small side holes. And now filled with crumpled newspaper.