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here's the best I can do....sorry it's sucky. 55G tank...top screens are taped off to preserve humidity...sides are taped off for privacy until she's a little bigger and acclimated ( few mo's )...temp is as follows Ambient=85(day) 80(night) Basking=about 95(day) 85(night) ...until we get a rheostat to better fine tune temps there tis. Humidity=I mist the tank about every 3 to 3 1/2 hours to keep the humidity about 65...in between mistings it can get down about 55-60
She has 3 hides one large stone hide with log and foliage at the ambient side with the uth...one slightly smaller one (the grey one in the pic ) at the basking end and in the middle is her water dish, a live Pothos plant and her moss hide...substrate is aspen...nice and soft and not splintery...
PICTURED
#1 looking to the left side from the right end, green bowl is moss hide
#2 the right end of the tank
#3 looking to the right side from down at the left end
#4 left side glance of outer tank
#5 temp/humidity guage in the middle taken at night about 9pm
#6 right side glance of outer tank with fugly border

Bloods tend to get very nervous in large enclosures which leads to stress. Put him in something smaller, most people on here use rubbermaid shoe boxes for their babies 12Q size, as I do and I havent had a baby refuse feed yet. You also need to wait more before feeding after first getting an animal at min wait a week and then 10 days after that try again. Most of your other things seem fine but 95 seems dangerously high for a basking spot something more like 88 or so would be better. Bloods seem to thrive in ambient temps of around 82. You went way too extravegant on a tank for a little guy dont worry so much about hot spots and shrubbery etc a hide and a water bowl with 82 ambient temps will suit its just fine provided the enclosure isnt very large.

J

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"It's my snake, I trained it, so I'm going to eat it!" - Mad Max, The Road Warrior

and get rid of those Zoo Med monitors there horrible. I've had some before and you could put the two right next to each other and the readings would be over 10 degrees difference. Get a digi I got my monitors at Wal Mart for $15 and it has two heat monitors for both sides and a humidity monitor on it.

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"It's my snake, I trained it, so I'm going to eat it!" - Mad Max, The Road Warrior