Quote Originally Posted by starmom View Post
I'd be more concerned about an RI cropping up that quickly. Also, you ought to always measure your temps under the substrate since you never know when your snake is going to burrow under!
How bout taking more of the wet substrate out and just doing with less substrate but not all the way to paper? Or, no this is better, doing paper with the aspen on top of it
I like the paper/aspen idea BUT, I don't have any more aspen. I used all I had and put it on top of the bark. I don't think I could get enough out to cover the newspaper.

What about if I put some of that new bark in the oven and dried it out a bit? Would that help? If so, what temp would I put it on and for how long? And, how long would it need to cool off?

It's funny to think that I'm going through this much trouble for a snake that I never wanted and was too afraid to have. Now that I have learned something about snakes, I will go to the same lengths as I would my dog or horse! Well, as a pet owner, that goes without saying but I'm just surprised how much I really care for this snake, and she is not even mine!