Today moved our girl to a ceramic heat lamp with a cage on top. She’s always had a big heat mat under a huge piece of marble but she wasn’t getting warm enough.
Today is her feeding day so once all settled and she’d had a few hours sunbathing happily under the lamp I got her rat out, defrosted it and warmed it in some water as normal. When I went to feed her, before I went in the tank she was very interested in me which often happens but then as I was getting the rat into the enclosure she started to strike near the lamp. When I put the rat in and started tapping on the side as usual she got really excited and struck at the cage connecting with it 3 times! She got off it no problem and after basically bopping her with the rat and my husband coaxing her over with lots of tapping she got the rat. She seems fine but bit concerned this might be a new thing!! Don’t want her to be striking at the heat lamp after eating thinking there is still food in there if she can still smell it! Dosy creature! Anyone had this? Worried she’ll be in a constant state of feed mode or hurt herself!