I'm still having issues getting this out of my mind. The more I read the more it sounds serious; even reading a thread that if happens again it could result in death. What scares me the most is that I haven't been able to pin point what the reasoning was. The only thing that changed was that I went from f/t mice to f/t rats. The temps should not have changed because I have a HerpStat2 running as well as the Heater in the room set to run nonstop at 77 degrees

I was able to get some enclosure temps but I'm hesitant to get the best possible reading (temp gun on hot surface) because I don't want to disturbed a possibly stressed out BP.

Hot Side Surface: 93 (thermo reading w/ probe on UTH)
Cool Side Surface: 83 (taken w/ temp gun on surface)
Ambients (78-79ish)
Humidity:70ish

I'm hesitant to to attempt to remove that nasty smell from the enclosure or do anything which would involved opening the cage doors as to not disturb him in the next two weeks. For the record, I wiped down the cage as best I could when the rat was discovered so it's fairly clean....just the awful 'dead' smell.

Any additional advice would be helpful? This experience has been pretty traumatic so far.