Quote Originally Posted by noodle.obsessed View Post
If you are worried about heat coming from your hand you could run it under cold water for a while and use tongs to hold the middle of the rodent as this is the orientation they would be in the wild, if he doesn't take it just leave overnight, also I think fixing your temperatures will really help and possibly completely solve the problem.
The lights may be a little bright, just use light from outside the enclosure for a little and see if he changes his personality.
Sorry if I missed this but were did you get him from, breeder or a pet store? One month is quite young as most breeders give 6 consecutive feeds and make sure they are over 100 grams, do you know if this was the case?
(Also sidenote I have my 3 month old that I got 5 days ago in a 120 gallon tank (this is what rspca says is the bare minimum for an adult) it works perfectly fine for her and she just ate today although remember that all snakes have different personalities and needs some will need small dark enclosures at first.)
You could try covering the front for a few days with a blanket, this really helped calm my baby down on the first day.

TBH young snakes really shouldn't have long hunger strikes/frequent food refusals, something is either wrong with him, or your husbandry - fix your temps, and if you are having inconsistent humidity cover part of the mesh top, also CLUTTER CLUTTER CLUTTER including some above the snake so he feels less exposed and lots on the ground.
Hope he eats soon for you!
I bought him from a breeder, but I have started to realize he is not quite as reliable as I was lead to believe. He does not take the best care of his bps and may overburden himself trying to manage a bp breeding facility and a massive rat barn. I had to treat my bp for a bacteria found in life rats, doubtlessly sourced from my breeder. Big red flag.

Moving on, I ended up covering all four mesh quadrants with aluminum foil and used aluminum tape to secure the edges and make them as airtight as one can with tape, cutting a hole in two of them to make way for the lamps. I could put some sort of filter on the light, but I don’t see how the brightness is a major issue since it’s off at night? The ceramic heat emitter is regulated by a thermostat controller so it will just work harder at night to avoid a temp drop- and from my observations, the temp doesn’t drop hardly at all at night.

With these current changes, his temps are now 75-77 on the cool side and 85-89 on the hot. Humidity is up to 55-60 with occasional misting.

I am planning on getting some black paper today to make the sides opaque and limit light passage. I’ll see if I don’t know where I would get a filter for the light lamp though; it gets hot and would melt plastic eventually.

Thank you for your advice and help.