Quote Originally Posted by Malum Argenteum View Post
What is the substrate? Is the rat wet? Making sure those two issues are not a problem would probably minimize the substrate ingestion risk.
Coconut fiber, rat is wet. Definitely a fair bit of it sticks to the rat. I hadn't been drying the rat because it was easier and neater not to do so, and I'd read elsewhere on this forum that it doesn't matter if the snake eats some substrate.