1. I got my BP on April 27 of this year so tomorrow will be a month. I got her from Slither & Swim in West Haven, CT and her name is Medusa.

2. The store said they were unsure of her exact age (they didn’t give me much info about her) but they said she was between 4-6 years old and fully grown.

3. I’ve only been able to feed her once so I don’t necessarily have a regular feeding schedule yet. The Monday I got her the guy at the store told me to wait a week before feeding her so I fed her the following Monday (the 4th) and she attacked it after about 15 min. I tried feeding her again two weeks after on that Monday and she showed no interest. It’s now Sunday and she’s still showing no interest.

4. Tomorrow will be 3 weeks since her last meal.

5. I feed her a live small rat and both times it’s been white (I’ve heard color is sometimes important with super picky BPs) and I got them both from Slither & Swim. I haven’t tried any other type of food as this is what the pet store said they fed her.

6. The first time she ate I only had to offer the rat that one time. I offered her the rat twice on Monday and since then I’ve offered it about every other day and I’ve tried both at night and during the day. I even tried putting the rat in the terrarium and placing both the rat and my BP on a separate bin.

7. 3 ft x 1.5 ft x 1 ft tank

8. When I first got her I used this wood chip type substrate but once I caught the mild case of scale rot I changed the substrate to paper towels and it’s been that since. I was thinking once her scale rot was completely cleared (which it almost is) I was going to switch the substrate to newspaper.

9. I have a heating lamp with a day bulb for during the day and heating lamp with a night bulb that I turn on instead of the day bulb lamp overnight. I also have a heating pad but I’ve rarely use it.

10/11. I have 3 thermostats. I have 1 that monitors the cold side of her tank, one that monitors the ground on the heated side of her tank, and one that monitors the temp. of her basking area on her heated side which is a rock hideout I made.

12. At the moment the weather is starting to get a lot warmer in my area and my room gets very hot so it’s been hard keeping the temps where they should be. I have an air conditioner in my room that keeps the temperature at 60 degrees Fahrenheit. Her cold side is usually around 70 right now and I’m working on making it a bit lower but again it’s hard because of the weather. Her warm side is usually between 80-86 and her basking area is usually low to mid 90s.

13. I’ve been holding back on humidity for her scale rot to clear up but her humidity level is usually around 40-50% whereas right now it’s between 30-40.

14. There are two hides in her tank. One hide is a plastic bin that I cut two openings in that I placed on her cold side and she also has a hide that I made out of three rocks on her warm side. There are two rectangular rocks set up against the walls of the tank and a big flat rock laying on top of the two rectangular ones. I did this because she uses it as her hide and then will come out and lay on top to bask. I will post a picture of my setup in a new thread.

15. She has a big dog water bowl in the middle of her tank that’s filled with fresh water once a day. Recently I’ve had to clean it out a little bit more because her scales have been falling into it.

16. She lives alone in her enclosure as I have no other pets.

17. I was taking her out anywhere from around 2-3 times a day. Although recently with her not eating and the cake rot and all of the possibilities running through my head I decided to leave her alone a bit more Incase of stress so Ive only been taking her out once a day starting yesterday.

18. The guy at Slither & Swim said they got her from her last owner and they didn’t have any information on medical history

19. I have no other reptiles and no new ones coming any time soon.

20. Other things I might think are important for y’all to know is this is my first snake and even my first reptile in general. Everything I research it seems they have the same symptoms for everything so I don’t know if the worry is necessary or not. I am 100% positive the scale rot was scale rot and it’s healing very nicely. I heard her wheezing and breathing big heavily at the beginning of the week but only that one day and it happened a few times over the course of a couple hours. Since this is my first snake i checked her mouth and I didn’t see anything but I wanted to be sure so I took her to the vet and they said they saw nothing but wanted to give her the injection anyways. They told me to come back on Monday for a second one but I’m not sure if a second one would be a good idea as I haven’t heard anything else. She did it again when I had her on a betadine bath but I believe that time she just got water her in her nose or something because she had fallen into the water after trying to get out of the bath and then started wheezing after that but only for about 5 min and it stopped. This was last night. I checked her mouth again and when doing so I found her eyes had a bluish kind of tint to them. This now puts me in the mindset that she must just be shedding and all of these signs I was worried about must’ve just been stress because she’s shedding and shedding somehow slipped my mind. I believe it slipped my mind because the guys at the store didn’t give us the date on the last time she shed. Now with humidity low and the betadine baths, her scales are coming off individually instead of one large piece. I feel like I’m stressing out way more than she is and now I’m here hoping someone’s read all of this and has answers!! Please and thank you!!