My 25 year old BP laid 6 eggs 2 days ago, but after bathing her and cleaning the vivarium, and putting the old hide box (as shown in pic) back in (I used a cardboard box prior to laying as it was taller for wrapping around a clutch) she has been roaming quite a bit and hanging up by the wooden guard by the ceramic heater.
I closed up the other hole on the hidebox as can be seen in the pic, it might make her stay in there
There's a heatmat on a thermostat at the far left end of the hidebox (temp is 85-90F) (so she can choose to be warm or cool inside the hidebox), and the ceramic is on a pulse proportional thermostat, and gives an ambient in the centre of the vivarium temp of 80F.
Trying to keep the humidity around 60%
Typically she would just be in the hidebox all day.
Last year and this year whilst gravid she would act weird and start climbing up on the mesh guard but now she is doing it quite a bit.
She's dropped from 2900g to 1900g this year, a slightly bigger drop than last year.
I thought she might have been hungry so I put a F/T rat in last night, she sniffed at it but wasn't interested.
Last year she ate about 5 days after laying, and ate 10 200g rats in a row stopping in November.
At this moment she is relaxed under the ceramic, but I'd rather she was in the hide box.
Is there anything wrong with my setup, would it be better if I put her in a tub so its dark all the time?
Please advise if you can, thanks very much.
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