Just my recommendations from experience-I think you temps are too high. I only provide undercage belly heat with a true temp gradient. Most of the time my retics are on the cool side of the cage. My max hotspot is 89-90 and 75 on the cool side. The basking lamp might be too much in that size of a cage and will dry up humidity that retics love. Let the snake settle in for a week prior to feeding and handling.



I strongly advise feeding inside the cage. Retics can hold onto their feeding mode for up to 48 hours and moving a large retic after feeding is more than dangerous and stressful on the snake. Get a snake hook if you don't have one. Every time you open the cage touch the retic on the nose with the hook except when food enteers the cage. The retic soon learns that the hook means "no food is coming" and the feeding responce is cancelled. When the snake is taken out of the cage I want it to "think" it is not being fed ever. Hope this helps and good luck. Bill
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