Coyotemoon,


Thanks to your picture, I printed it and went strait to Walmart after work and showed it to the guy in hardware and he took me right to it. Right now I have it sitting in the cool side corner using the stand, but also bought some velcro in case I change my mind and mount it.

I took the probe and stuck it underneath the warm hide. I also stopped at PetSmart and bought a 150 Watt infrared bulb for night time, and bought a thermostat. Right now, I still have the regular 50 watt basking spot light on the warm side to see if I can attain a good temp during the daytime (i.e. viewing time) and then switch out the bulbs at night to infrared. I'll start that a few hours before I go to bed so that I can determine if the thermostat needs to be on low/med/high to maintain a constant temp.

Right now I'm a little concerned about the warm side, because the probe is reading close to 100, but I just went and made sure the probe wasn't directly on the glass under the substrate (which it was) and will check again. The cool side is around 74.7 I've just moved the basking light to the cool side with therm on low and covered the warm side with the towel (boy, getting these temps just right is a lot of fun!) Humidity is currently at 57%.

Any other suggestions are still welcome. I also bought a small white mouse who is in a Critter Keeper with some food. When Kashmire decides to come out this evening, I'll put it in for about 30 mins. If he's not interested, I'll take the mouse back out and into the Critter Keeper and try again later.

I believe I red 8Ball said that even a hatchling can easily eat a small mouse. I've been going crazy trying to find live hoppers that the dealer said he was eating. I put the live fuzzy out of his misery today. Been without mom's milk since Sunday.

Thanks again for all your help! My boyfriend said he didn't want to look at the mouse until after Kashmire killed it. I told him the mouse's name was Dinner! LOL

Robin