Sometimes I wonder about my spider..

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Thanks for the warm welcome! I've been on here a ton for the info since I first got Noodle, and it's been unbelievably helpful.

@Ax01 I got the bowl from PetSmart I think. Went in looking for a bowl with edges high enough he would quit shoving bedding into it daily and easier to clean. These were in the rodent area at my local stores; they have small, medium, and large ones. That's the large bowl, about the size of your average ceramic dog food bowl, I'd say, except with less paw prints and bones.

@Slicercrush I've sworn to myself to make sure I have the breeder's info before I leave from now on. Both the sellers of my other snakes gave business cards and had their business name written on the sales receipt. The less local one (Vega's breeder, from MO I think (info is at home), & I'm in TX) even gave me their cell phone number if I hit any issues.

@c0r3yr0s3 I'll try to remember to load a few clips into a video to post when I'm home from work later.

I am thinking about moving Obi back into a tub/rack type of setup. I'm fairly sure that's what he was in with the breeder before. The T8 is great (and I'll either save it for Vega when he's big enough, or maybe get me a bigger snake >.>), but Obi seems to struggle with staying ground level and oriented when he hunts and I think the lower height of a tub may help. It's pretty clear in the videos I took (will post clips later), but he goes up and down the walls and ceiling a lot, at times directly above a mouse or rat!

I don't think I caught it on camera, but one time he moved too far to the side along a wall and flopped back to the ground with his head on top of the poor mouse. It jumped so bad I would swear it bounced off of the ceiling and landed 2 feet away.

I was using a DIY rack to start but I got a bit concerned about rubbing across the heat tape causing damage with how tight the 41qt bin ended up being and ordered him the T8. I didn't think he'd end up having such a hard time finding his food. Not that he was great at it in the tub, but it wasn't quite this bad.

Any thoughts on if the height reduction might help?
And what size tub do you think that a breeder would have had him in?
He's approx 1,300g and exactly 4 ft long, according to the serpwidget webapp. He seems slender compared to a lot of other BPs I see pics of on here, but not particularly underweight.



This was how I found him one of the nights before he finally ate again, being a complete goofball.


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