Thank you for responding! Before I read everything through again I’ll just post what I’m working with. Link is a 1 year old and was given to me in a 30 gallon reptile terrarium, a sticky heat pad was stuck on the right side (that’s how the previous owner always had it), a Fluker’s 6 inch heat lamp with a 60W heat lamp (both broken so I got a new lamp and a red night bulb, blue day bulb), 2 log hideouts, a large water dish, a homemade humidity box that’s about 6 inches round by 4 inches deep that I fill with moss that I wet with a spray bottle, and feeding tongs.
He eats like a champ and has always been fed in his habitat. I just finished up the adult mice that was given to me and next week will start with the small rats because I was told at the pet store he was large enough for those. (I took him in with me.)
the heat pad, heat lamp, humidity box, and one log hideout are all on the right side and holds a day time temp at around 88. At night it drops to about 80. The other side has his water dish and another hideout and usually hovers around 78-80, depending on whether I have the towels covering the screen on that side. I live in a dry state in an airy house. He’s always had the humidity box and spends the vast majority of his time in there. It’s where he takes his food as well.
Today I took off the “blue” light because it really is too bright and am just using the red light. He immediately popped his head out of the humidity box to see what I was doing but I did notice he curved his neck into an S like he was waiting for food again. I was a little too timid to reach in and say hi. I try to make it a point to check the moss and to touch him.
i think that’s all for now. I’m going to go back and thoroughly read your responses now. Thank you for taking the time! I want to be the best BP “mom.”
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