Been a while since I checked in so I thought I'd give an update!
Sahira is doing wonderfully. She weighed in at 117 grams empty last night and enthusiastically took a feed today. It was kind of a weird feed though. She struck in such a way that she must have cut an artery in the pup. There's never been blood before but there was tons of blood this time and the rat was white so it was super obvious. It got all over Sahira's pretty white scales. And then she tried to eat it at a weird angle so the arm was stuck going the wrong direction. She got it halfway down but then spit it out and started over. She did eventually get it down, and I gently cleaned her up a little to get most of the blood off her. I did make triple sure that none of the blood was Sahira's.
I finally figured out what was up with the thermostat! This is going to sound insane, but a piece of quartz was near the sensor. Not touching, just close to it. As soon as I moved it, the sensor started functioning properly. I think the energy from the quartz was interfering with the sensor. But all is well now. That's why it was working great before I did the substrate change and then it wouldn't work after. I added the quartz to her enclosure during the substrate change.
The other night my daughter was holding her and Sahira started crawling up her sleeve to her arm pit and she was CRACKING UP. It was hilarious.
I think she may be just *slightly* overweight. I'm not sure how that happened because I'm only feeding once a week and her prey items are technically a little too small by the "same size as the widest part of the body" thing. I'm not too terribly worried because she still has a lot of growing to do. I'll just keep her on this size of prey until she is looking a little less svelt haha.
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