You couldn't have come to a better place to get all the help you want on your new BP! The members here are absolutely wonderful and oh so helpful! If it wasn't for the help I received when we first got our BP, there is no telling what kind of condition Foster would be in today. But, because of all the help I received, she is a healthy, thriving youngin'.

I also wanted to toss in my two cents....about feeding. I'm sure some will disagree with me but it's what works for us. Foster belongs to my 13 yo son. He takes care of all the cleaning, feeding, handling, etc. I keep a close eye on temps/humidity.

We feed in a seperate 10gal glass enclosure because my son is more comfortable doing so. He heard that they can be more aggressive when feeding in their everyday enclosure and even though I've told him it's a myth he still is more confortable feeding in a feeding tank. And also, because there is paper in the feeding tank, we don't have to worry about her eating any substrate while taking the prey down.

Also, something else that I don't recall being mentioned, is to make sure you have a good mite prevention method, like PAM! That other stuff that is sold in the petstores is not nearly good enough, IMO! This last bag of substrate we got was loaded with mites. There were more dead mites in her water in one soak than the combined number of mites we've seen since owning her. (I don't think I'll get Exo-Terra substrate again!)

Good luck with your new BP!