So since last week Dexter has had the new plastic hides and a small CHE boosting his ambient temps to 78-79 degrees. I picked up a live rat today on my way home for my lunch hour. He appeared to be asleep in the hide and I had some errands to run so I just set the small box with the rat in it inside of his enclosure. I was going to be gone for about an hour and didn't want the rat chewing out of the box and escaping in the house (it's unlikely but the wife was home) When I came home about 30 minutes later he was out of the hide and moving toward the box with the rat so I knew he must be thinking about eating. I let the rat loose and he tracked it and had it dead in a minute or two. I am probably going to try live another time or two and then try the F/T again. Just glad to know that he is still eating, he was either not wanting the F/T or his husbandry might not have quit been to his liking. Still hasn't shed the first time for me yet. I plan to weigh him again in a few days after this meal digests.
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