Hello,

So I have had Dexter for 3 weeks now and I have feed twice since I got him.

A small rat on 05.03 and another today, on 05.18. Both times I fed, I thawed the rat in the same room so he could smell it ahead of time.

The first time I didn't even get the rat all the way into his enclosure before he took it (very dramatically too) and I left him alone for 72 hours.

I just fed an hour ago and it took about 35 minutes of me doing the "zombie dance", the only reason I didn't stop is because he was out of his hide and interested but just not striking. He FINALLY took it but I wouldn't call it a "strike".

Is this normal behavior??

Also, he has not pooped? He's peed and I've found 2 clumps of urates while spot cleaning but no poop. Is this normal?

And the last thing, I've asked for advice on humidity before and I need more help on that.

I've covered 3 out of the 4 panels of the top of the exo Terra tank and I spray about 5/6 times a day with a spray bottle. I also switched his corner soaking bowl to the hot side and the small bowl to the cool side. It's at about 30% so I don't know what to do.

After I spray it gets to like 45% but only for about an hour.

I will add a humidity hide as soon as I receive the box/hide from Amazon.

If I really need to I am open to changing him to a tub enclosure but he's solely a "pet" ball python and wouldn't know how to go about that, especially bc I am using an under the tank heater and ceramic heat lamp (no light) so I hope I don't need to do this!

Thanks in advance!


**I did post this under ball python husbandry as well but I am also putting it in here bc I lumped so many things into one post!**

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