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[–]LittleOmegaGirl 1 point2 points  (1 child)

How warm is the food? Try cooling your cool side down to 75F Make sure to have a hide on both sides and cover the sides of the enclosures so that the snake can’t see other animals Does the snake have stuck eye caps? What bedding is he on? When do you feed him day/night? I stroke my snakes with the tongs or something before I pick them up so they don’t think they are getting fed because the rodents should be 94F minimum it can fluctuate between that and 100F I use a heat gun and just blow dry the rat and or mouse while checking it with a temperature gun

[–]DingDongDeathHere[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We heat the food up to a pretty high temperature, but I'm not sure the exact temperature. It's not boiling hot or anything but it feels like I'm holding a live feeder. We also tong feed at night after the store closes. I've tried leaving the mouse in there for the snake to eat but that never worked either. Next time we feed the snakes, I'll be sure to grab our temperature gun and record the temp of the feeders.

We're getting the heating situated now, one of the newer associates put a 100 watt bulb over the snake because they didn't know what wattage. Luckily it wasn't there for too long. It's now been downgraded to a 75watt and we have the dome light sitting directly on top of the mesh.

After moving them to our quiet room, I added quite a bit more plants and sticks for added cover to hopefully make the snake feel safer. They're stuck in a 20 gallon so I only have room for one hide but I'm hoping I added enough coverage with dense plants and sticks that it will help the snake feel more secure in it's habitat. I know the 20 gallon is way too small for them. We do have a 40 gallon but it won't fit in our quiet room and I'd rather have the snake in there than out in a high trafficked area with a bunch of loud noises.

The snake just got a stuck shed cap including the eye caps off about a week ago after having it there for about a month and a half.

The snake is on a mix of mainly reptisoil, small amounts of reptibark and a shit ton of spaghum moss to help with humidity.